Quake 2 was released 14 years ago!!

**Dustin2128** · April 9th, 2011

Originally Posted by Lucradia

It was an MMORPG, had GMs and everything. It used doom-like graphics (only a bit worse)when it first released for the 3D portions. You entered commands and everything to talk with characters and other players, and more.

It was massively updated to use Direct3D Later.

It released in 1995 originally.

Its name is Meridian 59: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meridian_59

Huh, I was going to say Ultima. I was only 2 years off at least..

**Wiebelhaus** · April 9th, 2011

omg...that was a long time ago.

**eckeroo** · April 10th, 2011

Quake 2 also has a native linux port btw.

It's not in the Ubuntu repositories, so is it still proprietary software?

My original Quake 2 CD needs to be in my CD drive for Wine to run it.

Quake 2 is a lovely game. I do not like Quake 3 much with the arena deathmatch running around type FPS. Most of my gaming time was spent playing counter-strike. FPS had reached its pinnacle with counter-strike and it should have been left there. I don't think Half-Life 2 brought in any significant improvements in gameplay over half-life, so I imagine counter-strike source isn't that much of an improvement other than better graphics. That crysis looks incredible, but it isn't for me.

**Lucradia** · April 10th, 2011

Originally Posted by eckeroo

It's not in the Ubuntu repositories, so is it still proprietary software?

My original Quake 2 CD needs to be in my CD drive for Wine to run it.

Quake 2 is a lovely game. I do not like Quake 3 much with the arena deathmatch running around type FPS. Most of my gaming time was spent playing counter-strike. FPS had reached its pinnacle with counter-strike and it should have been left there. I don't think Half-Life 2 brought in any significant improvements in gameplay over half-life, so I imagine counter-strike source isn't that much of an improvement other than better graphics. That crysis looks incredible, but it isn't for me.

Who said Quake, the game, had a linux port? Pretty sure they mean the engine: http://www.quakedev.com/

**Spice Weasel** · April 10th, 2011

Originally Posted by eckeroo

It's not in the Ubuntu repositories, so is it still proprietary software?

The engine is free software but the gamedata (models, textures, maps, etc) is proprietary.

**annoyingrob** · April 11th, 2011

Quake 3 and 4 are the same way. You can go to ID's website, and download the source code, and/or linux installers for them.

**rajeev1204** · April 12th, 2011

Originally Posted by Lucradia

Who said Quake, the game, had a linux port? Pretty sure they mean the engine: http://www.quakedev.com/

More or less the same, it has always been the same for id games since doom, the installer is downloaded separately.Gamedata is always same either for windows or linux.

So yes, it has a linux port.So did quake 3 and quake 4. All of them had native linux versions.They never merged the installer with the data except for the demos.

So as per your logic, all id software demos are linux ports.But yes it is a part of the engine .Their engines have always been multiplatform.but the link you mentioned is for development work on the engines which are now open source.Except quake4/doom3.

**rajeev1204** · April 12th, 2011

Originally Posted by annoyingrob

Quake 3 and 4 are the same way. You can go to ID's website, and download the source code, and/or linux installers for them.

quake 4 source code is still proprietary.Probably will go open soon though.It will be a massive leap in graphics quality for the free games out there if they use it.