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Quake 2 Source Code Released Under The GPL

Posted by chrisd on from the thanks-again-john dept.

Masem (and many others) writes: "The source code for Quake 2 is now available until the GPL license. The .plan file for John Carmack has the details." The Id Software site is of course slammed with demand for the code. Hopefully other mirrors will be available.

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  1. Good, a distraction! by Some+Dumbass... · · Score: 5, Funny

    While everyone's busy downloading the Quake II source code, maybe I can mange to download kernel 2.4.17!

  2. Re:Lint by Anonymous+DWord · · Score: 5, Funny

    Not if a build of your project sold 20 gazillion copies, you wouldn't. ;-)

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  3. Re:Wow, already!? by FyRE666 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Dude, if you lived next door to me and were playing Quake with the sound up, blasting through a subwoofer at 3AM, it wouldn't just be the game scaring the hell out of you...

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  4. Re:first impressions... by kreyg · · Score: 5, Funny

    I thought it looked almost exactly like typical CS code, actually not too different from my style.... until I saw line 577 in ref_gl/gl_light.c:

    "store:"

    WTF? Search "store"....

    Line 488:

    "goto store;"

    And the style Nazi in me went: NNNOOOOOOOO! :-)

    This must be a remnant of something, an "else" would have sufficed. :-)

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  5. Hidden in the code... by DarkHelmet · · Score: 5, Funny
    And I'm sure somewhere in the code is hidden:

    3d realms and epic megagames are weenies

    :)

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  6. They Skipped a Whole Generation of Games... by BigJimSlade · · Score: 5, Funny

    Dear Lord, how will I be able to startup ComanderKeenForge.net without the source code to Comander Keen!?!?!?!?! It's just not fair to leave us hangin' like this!!! :)

  7. Re:Merry Christmas to all Programmers by tshak · · Score: 5, Funny

    I have peaked at both Doom and Quake to just see what goes on in the head of one of the best programmers in the world. In doing so I have picked a few pointers without even realizing it...

    And this, sir, is how we get Memory Leaks.

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