Quake is a first-person shooter computer game that was released by id Software on June 22 1996. It was the first game in the popular Quake series of computer and video games.

It can be said that the original Quake game pushed most PC hardware to its limits, due to never-before-seen features it offered: complex textured 3D environments, polygon-modelled enemies with certain intelligence, and the like. Quake was able to overshadow almost all 3D-shooters at the time, including Blood and Duke Nukem 3D, both based on simpler 3D requirements and sprite-based characters. In fact, the poor performance of 486 processors on Quake pushed many people to upgrade to Pentium processors, while the excellent performance of the Pentium Pro, coupled with a fast video card, led to many servers and high-end workstations being used for Quake gaming. Its mixture of dark, horror fantasy with good 3D shooting action was a major departure from other light-themed games of the time.

The majority of programming work on the Quake engine was done by John Carmack. Michael Abrash, a program performance optimization specialist, was brought in to help make the software rendering engine fast enough to be feasible. The background music for the game was composed by Trent Reznor, of Nine Inch Nails (within the game, the ammo box for the nailgun has the Nine Inch Nails logo on it in reference to this). Quake was released just as the Internet was commercially coming of age, and gamers were graduating from local bulletin boards to the global online community. id Software recognized, before anyone else, that the future of competitive gaming lay with the Internet, and so Quake was the second game whose multiplayer could be played against many people on the Internet rather than with only people on a local network.

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Bajando el Urban terror (aca un quake 3 verción cod para linux) ,
yosora (yosora) Fri, 04 Dec 2009 21:00:23 -0000
Bajando el Urban terror (aca un quake 3 verción cod para linux) ,
[Games] Quake Live nun auch für Linux und Mac. See video on http://mooveon.net/article_1125069970458
mooveon (Adrien HADJ SALAH) Fri, 04 Dec 2009 20:51:10 -0000
[Games] Quake Live nun auch für Linux und Mac. See video on http://mooveon.net/article_1125069970458
@jim_sterling You're not. Those recorders only record DirectX windows. Quake is either pre-Directx or OpenGl. Thank Carmack's love for Linux
dgschrei (Dominik ) Fri, 04 Dec 2009 07:47:00 -0000
@jim_sterling You're not. Those recorders only record DirectX windows. Quake is either pre-Directx or OpenGl. Thank Carmack's love for Linux
RT @feliam: feliam I'll never beat you at QUAKE but you'll know I gave my best 20' to it! Its a Linux QUAKE helper!!!!! http://pasteb ...
MarioVilas (Mario Vilas) Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:05:16 -0000
RT @feliam: feliam I'll never beat you at QUAKE but you'll know I gave my best 20' to it! Its a Linux QUAKE helper!!!!! http://pasteb ...
feliam I'll never beat you at QUAKE but you'll know I gave my best 20' to it! Its a Linux QUAKE helper!!!!! http://pastebin.com/f3764c1c6
feliam (Felipe Manzano) Mon, 30 Nov 2009 08:42:14 -0000
feliam I'll never beat you at QUAKE but you'll know I gave my best 20' to it! Its a Linux QUAKE helper!!!!! http://pastebin.com/f3764c1c6
Ohlordie. Anyone here have Linux and Quake? Try playing this for a few minutes: http://webpages.mr.net/bobz/ttyquake/
Griffinhart (Raphael Nguyen) Mon, 30 Nov 2009 04:20:10 -0000
Ohlordie. Anyone here have Linux and Quake? Try playing this for a few minutes: http://webpages.mr.net/bobz/ttyquake/

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