Quake is 10

cyclomedia writes "Late on 22nd June 1996 Quake was uploaded to cdrom.com's archives in the form of 7 1.44MB floppy disk images. Though it wasn't until the 23rd that everyone realised (or at least, that's my excuse for being a day late with the news submission). Cue much aggravation on the newsgroups as eager downloaders experienced glorious 2 FPS gameplay."

Comments

10 years!

[uberjoe]

Insert Ob "My God, now I feel old" comment.

Re:10 years!

[Professeur Shadoko]

As long as he does not claim that Doom has turned 10. When THAT happens, I'll feel really old.

ah the memories

[Anonymous Coward]

I have a 486 Dx2/80 with a Diamond Stealth 64 2120
> video card and I get 6.2 fps in the start. While in Duke 3D, I get well
> over 30+ fps. Why is Quake so slow compared to Duke 3D?


Ahh... the last time anything besides Windows Vista got compared to Duke Nukem.

Re:ah the memories

[Anonymous Coward]

I have a 486 Dx2/80 with a Diamond Stealth 64 2120 video card and I get 6.2 fps

Don't use a three year old S3 chipset video with a two year old Cyrix/AMD -- it is 1996 and Intel owns games.
That 80MHz machine is no better than an i486/33 which is barely a shade better than AMD's i386/40.
And Gateway2000 has had an under $2000 Pentium for 18 months now.
Go back to your two year old, 64 bit Atari Jaguar.

Your excuse

[aborchers]

(or at least, that's my excuse for being a day late with the news submission)

I thought it was because you were using that Procrastnatr calendar thingy...

Still have flashbacks ...

[Average_Joe_Sixpack]

I like to think of the original Quake as my own personal Vietnam

Re:Old schoolin'

[stupidfoo]

3.25" floppies? Crazy. Where'd you get those from?

88mph

[linvir]

I was about to post a reply in that thread, you know, to send a message back and boast about how good our computers are here in the future or something, but apparently...

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And I was gonna get so much cred with my 'amazing' Pentium III laptop... anyone know when Google will be implementing this feature?

3.25" floppies

[artemis67]

Basically, you had to buy some 3.5" floppies and then trim .25" off of one edge with the scissors before they would fit in the vending machine.

Re:3.25" floppies

[aquabat]

Don't trim the side with the write-protect tab.

Re:The Size was incredible

[rblum]

Times haven't really changed - quake091.zip is still 9 MB in size.

Descent.

[KDR_11k]

I grew up on Descent instead of Quake. Now I'm immune to motion sickness.

Re:Old schoolin'

[Mercano]

AOL used to send me 3.5" flopies in the mail all the time for me to reformat and use for whatever. Now all I get is read-only coasters. Sigh, can't get good swag anymore.

You /still/ have 486?

[ilyanep]

blah blah blah only lamers have 486s
blah blah blah blah blah...

Still have 486? Get a Pentium immediately!
You remind me of those people who complained
that DOOM was slow on their 386 when DOOM
came out the first time.

Wow I love reading old technical newsgroups...