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From: jstev AT gladstone DOT uoregon DOT edu (Josh Stevens)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Quake
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 18:34:17 GMT
Organization: University of Oregon Computing Center
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elric AT wheel DOT ucdavis DOT edu (Jeffrey Taylor) wrote:

>qtest1.zip does not contain the source for Quake.  It is already compiled 
>and includes CWSDPMI.  Id has been saying that they were using DJGPP for 
>Quake development. 

>This is a Deathmatch test version, no monsters, no solo play, etc.  Get 
>your "buddy" on a LAN or serial null modem link and blow each other 
>away.  Hackers (in both senses) have cobbled together some monsters and 
>added them to the levels released by Id.

Well, this isn't exactly true.  Nobody created new monsters -- they
were already there in the .pak file.  The hackers just found ways to
place them in the levels.  Also, solo play *is* possible, there's just
not much to do.

-Josh