Years ago, when it first came out, I downloaded the demo for a game called Quake. I was visiting my folks, and I downloaded and installed it on my dad’s machine. It was awesome. Fantastic. When I headed off for my first duty station in Germany, every one in a while, me and the boys would get together for Nerdfest — a Saturday of beer and bratwurst and Quake.
Not sure why, but I decided to check online for an OS X version. The game had been released under the GPL some time ago, and I figured that someone had to have ported it to OS X.
They have. It’s right here. Download the demo, to get the pak0 file for the demo, and then download the OS X files, and you’re in business.
And yes, it is as fun as I remember. OS X and Windows versions.
UPDATE: My apologies. Here is the OS X version of Quake 2 — since it was also released into the GPL world. And Open Arena is Quake III Arena, serving up the Q3 engine but with custom graphics.
September 20th, 2008 at 3:51 am
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