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Quake Shareware History

History of the shareware releases of Quake.

Each shareware version was typically released as a single .zip file and a repackaged version across 7 floppy disks.

Releases:

  • 1996 Jun 22, quake091.zip
  • 1996 ??? ??, v0.92 (Bugs fixed)
  • 1996 ??? ??, v0.93 (Never officially released; internal testing only)
  • 1996 ??? ??, v0.94 (Bugs fixed / Features added -- LIMITED BETA VERSION)
  • 1996 Jul 11, quake100.zip
  • 1996 Jul 12, quake101.zip
  • 1996 ??? ??, v1.02 (Bugs fixed)
  • 1996 Oct 02, quake106.zip

Quake Shareware v0.91

Released as quake091.zip and qsw091_1.zip to qsw091_7.zip.

Announcement

==June 22== 6:10p.m. CDT

IT'S OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!
Click on the logo at the top for the official mirrors list. I WAS RIGHT!!! :)

-- http://redwood.gatsbyhouse.com/quake/696.html (archive)

Quakes out
[email protected]
23 June 1996

Wow I'm suprised it hasn't been posted everywhere by now. As the subject says
the Quake beta is out. The file is quake091.zip and ...well read the
following.
>>>>>SNIP<<<<<
Subject: AftershockWave Special Announcement: QUAKE is out!
>>>>>SNIP<<<<<
Status:

QUAKE shareware 0.91 has been released!

Quake is available as one big .zip file (9 megs in size) called
quake091.zip or 7 individual files qsw091_1.zip through qsw091_7.zip
that will fit on 1.44" floopy disks

Quake is available from the following FTP sites:

ftp://ftp.idsoftware.com/idstuff/quake/ (California, USA) *

ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/idgames/idstuff/quake (California, USA) *
ftp://quake.best.com/mirrors/idsoftware/ (California, USA) *
ftp://ftp.gamesdomain.com/pub/companies/id/quake/ (Tennesee, USA) *
ftp://ftp.cssweb.com/pub/games/idstuff/quake/ (Kentuky, USA) *
ftp://sparky.bright.net/quake/ (Ohio, USA) *
ftp://ftp.stomped.com/pub/idstuff/quake/ (Minesota, USA) *
ftp://www.pht.com/pub/gamehead/id/ (USA) *
ftp://ftp.technomancer.com/pub/idstuff/quake/ (Virginia, USA) *
ftp://ftp.infomagic.com/pub/mirrors/doom/idstuff/quake/ (Arizona, USA) *
ftp://ftp.feist.com/pub/pc/games/quake/ (Kansas, USA) *
ftp://ftp.ameritel.net/idsoftware/quake/ (Maryland, USA) *
ftp://ftp.getquake.com/pub/quake/ (Kansas, USA) *
ftp://quake.osiriscorp.com/pub/idstuff/quake/ (New York, USA) *
ftp://iclass.com/pub/quake/ (Utah, USA) *
ftp://ftp.islandnet.com/mirrors/idsoftware/ (Victoria, Canada)
ftp://ftp.orst.edu/pub/doom/idstuff/quake/ (Oregon, USA)
ftp://ftp.ais.net/pub/idgames/idstuff/quake/ (Illinois, USA)
ftp://ftp.gamers.org/pub/games/idgames/idstuff/quake/ (New York, USA)
ftp://mirrors.aol.com/pub/pc_games/doom/idstuff/quake/ (Virginia, USA)

ftp://garfield.sch.bme.hu/pub/idstuff/quake/ (Budapest, Hungary)
ftp://idmirror.netvision.be/idstuff/quake/ (Heverlee, Belgium)
ftp://ftp.flexnet.net/pub/quake/ (England)
ftp://ftp.passagen.se/pub/idstuff/ (Sweden)
ftp://ftp.pk.edu.pl/pub/games/id/idstuff/quake/ (Cracow, Poland)
ftp://camel.frtk-campus.mipt.ru/pub/idstuss/quake (Moscow, Russia)
ftp://rulhmpc49.LeidenUniv.nl/pub/mirrors/idsoft/ (Leiden, Holland)
ftp://ftp.gig.nl/pub/idstuff/quake/ (Amsterdam, Holland)
ftp://ftp.volftp.vol.it/pub2/idstuff/quake/ (Cagliari, Italy)
ftp://ftp.origo.telenor.no/pub/quake/ (Oslo, Norway)
ftp://ftp.spel.postnet.se/pub/games/id/ (Sweden)
ftp://ftp.bnd.de/pub/quake/ (Berlin, Germany)
ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/pub/pc/msdos/games/doom/idstuff/quake/ (Berlin, Germany)
ftp://ftp.luth.se/pub/games/doom/idstuff/quake/ (Sweden)
ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/pc/games/idgames/idstuff/quake/ (Sweden)
ftp://flinux.tu-graz.ac.at/pub/idsoftware/idstuff/quake/ (Austria)
ftp://ftp.calvacom.fr/pub/pc/doom/idstuff/quake/ (France)

ftp://PC/games/DOOM/idstuff/quake/ (Taiwan)

ftp://hyperactive.com.au/pub/games/idstuff/quake/ (Sydney, Australia)
ftp://ftp.powerup.com.au/pub/games/doom/idstuff/quake/ (Australia)

ftp://ftp.sun.ac.za/pub/msdos/idgames/idstuff/quake/ (South Africa)

(sites marked with a * will get quake uploaded directly by idsoftware.
others are mirroring sites)

</j>

>>>>>END QUOTE<<<<<

It's very pretty, but I'm real disappoted about the speed. It needs an FPU, but
how much it relies on it I don't know. I thought most modern programmers
avoided floating point like the plague.

Anyway it's out :)

--Numen
[email protected]

-- comp.os.os2.games

Quake FTP list!
Ka On Lee
24 June 1996

Followup-To: rec.games.computer.quake.playing -- moderator]
This is the ftp list I got from www.idsoftware.com. I post it here since
you may have some hard time to access that site or some popular mirrors.
Hopefully one of them will let you in.

I have downloaded the 7 disks version from
ftp.wustl.edu/pub/MSDOS_UPLOAD/Quake/

Haven't try it yet.


From www.idsoftware.com

We split QUAKE into files that will fit on 1.44 mb floppies so you can copy
each file to a disk for backup purposes, or to give to a friend who doesn't
have internet access (just in case you need someone to beat on in deathmatch).
All seven disks are required to install QUAKE.
The filenames for the 7 disks are: qsw091_1.zip to
qsw091_7.zip. Alternatively you can download one huge .zip
file called quake091.zip.

Now available at:

ftp://ftp.idsoftware.com/idstuff/quake/
...

-- rec.games.computer.quake.announce

Archive content:

    36064 21 Jun  1996 DEICE.EXE
      396 21 Jun  1996 FILE_ID.DIZ
      229 21 Jun  1996 INSTALL.BAT
  1387077 21 Jun  1996 QSW_091.1
  1433600 21 Jun  1996 QSW_091.2
  1433600 21 Jun  1996 QSW_091.3
  1433600 21 Jun  1996 QSW_091.4
  1433600 21 Jun  1996 QSW_091.5
  1433600 21 Jun  1996 QSW_091.6
   435874 21 Jun  1996 QSW_091.7
      208 21 Jun  1996 QSW_091.DAT
    10077 21 Jun  1996 README.TXT

Installation directory (installed via dosbox):

.
├── CWSDPMI.EXE
├── GENVXD.DLL
├── HELP.TXT
├── ID1
│   ├── CONFIG.CFG
│   └── PAK0.PAK
├── LICINFO.TXT
├── MANUAL.TXT
├── MGENVXD.VXD
├── ORDER.TXT
├── PDIPX.COM
├── Q95.BAT
├── QLAUNCH.EXE
├── QUAKE.EXE
├── QUAKEUDP.DLL
├── README.TXT
├── SLICNSE.TXT
└── TECHINFO.TXT

Readme snippet:

Welcome to Quake!

This file details how to get Quake running on your system and what to do
if you have problems.  We would like to thank Gandalf Technologies, Inc and
MPath Interactive for the use of their technology.  We would also like to
thank Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails for their tremendous contributions
to Quake's entire audio portion.
...

-- README.TXT

Additional Links:

Quake Shareware v1.00

Released as quake100.zip and qsw100_1.zip to qsw100_7.zip.

Announcements:

==July 11== 7:50p.m. CDT

8:20a.m.
QUAKE v1.00 SHAREWARE IS OUT!!! Go check id's or the mirror ftp sites by clicking on the logo at the top of the page. You can read the list of fixes since .91 here. Thanks to Kit Chung and Toxic Ocean for letting me know. For once a morning that isn't so bad. :)

-- http://redwood.gatsbyhouse.com/quake/796.html (archived)

Links:

QUAKE VERSION 1.00 IS OUT!!!!!
Walter
11 July 1996

QUAKE VERSION 1.00 IS OUT!!!!
nuff' said.

-- rec.games.computer.quake.misc

Archive content:

    36064 10 Jul  1996 DEICE.EXE
      396 11 Jul  1996 FILE_ID.DIZ
      311 11 Jul  1996 INSTALL.BAT
  1397174 11 Jul  1996 QSW100.1
  1433600 11 Jul  1996 QSW100.2
  1433600 11 Jul  1996 QSW100.3
  1433600 11 Jul  1996 QSW100.4
  1433600 11 Jul  1996 QSW100.5
  1433600 11 Jul  1996 QSW100.6
   402524 11 Jul  1996 QSW100.7
      191 11 Jul  1996 QSW100.DAT
      851 10 Jul  1996 README.TXT

Installation directory (installed via dosbox):

.
├── CWSDPMI.EXE
├── GENVXD.DLL
├── HELP.TXT
├── ID1
│   ├── CONFIG.CFG
│   └── PAK0.PAK
├── LICINFO.TXT
├── MANUAL.TXT
├── MGENVXD.VXD
├── ORDER.TXT
├── PDIPX.COM
├── Q95.BAT
├── QLAUNCH.EXE
├── QUAKE.EXE
├── QUAKEUDP.DLL
├── README.TXT
├── SLICNSE.TXT
└── TECHINFO.TXT

Readme snippet:

*********************************************************************
***               Welcome to Quake Shareware v1.00!               ***
*********************************************************************

Please consult the README.TXT file for the latest-breaking information
on this Quake version!
...

Changelog:

======================================================
==                 Version History                  ==
======================================================
v1.00 -- Bugs fixed
------------------------------------------------------
* Gravis Ultrasound audio support (still has bugs)
* More deathmatch start spots on E1M6 and END
* Print server version and PROG CRC on connect
* -dedicated starts start.map if nothing else specified
* fixed lookspring function during net game
* fixed rare crash during long running dedicated server
------------------------------------------------------
v0.94 -- Bugs fixed / Features added -- LIMITED BETA VERSION
------------------------------------------------------
* Totally rewritten menus
* New lighting model with overbrighting
* Parsed lowercase BLASTER parms
* Better Sound Blaster shutdown code
* Rewrote BLASTER initialization
* Fixed DMA channel 0 bugs
* Added SBPro 8 stereo setup
* Fix delayed sound on 8 bit Sound Blasters
* Fixed speed key affecting angle-turning from keyboard
* Fixed "no such Alias frame" bugs
* Fixed Zombie not getting up bug
* Checked for very high joystick values, signalling a failed read
* Unstuck jumping Fiends and Spawn
* Fixed large BModels blinking out in complex areas
* Fixed s_localsound with no sound started
* Saved spawn parms in savegame
* Fixed screenshot save location
* Bind with no arguments no longer clears value
* Allow console in intermission / finale
* Fixed false gib messages
* Full-screen TAB scoreboard in DeathMatch
* Fixed "+playdemo <demo>" from command line
* Trapped overflow in sizebuf messages
* Moveup / movedown in water!
* Fixed-up Talk command
* Added unsupported crosshair option ("crosshair 1" from console)
* Colored chat messages with notify sound
* Fixed "connect during intermission" bug
* Changelevel while demos running no longer crashes
* Fixed changelevel with no map left up loading screen
* Fixed long names entered from the console causing crash
* Stopped demos changing while in the menus

* Fixed modem initialization from menu
* Fixed serial reliable stream getting stalled
* Serial/modem code fixes
	16550a lost transmit buffer empty interrupts
	fixed sometimes processing interrupts from com1 when using com2
	added com3/com4 support from menus
	fixed first character of modem init not getting sent
	saved serial/modem settings in config.cfg
* Fixed name and colors not always sent to server at startup
* Fixed "stopdemo" crashing the system when there wasn't a demo playing
* Added server's TCP/IP and IPX addresses (if available) to status command

* In 0.92, an additional check for a usable VESA video mode was added;
the numpages field was verified to be greater than 0, and no mode was
supported that had numpages set to 0 (which indicates that there's not
enough video memory for that mode).  ATI's VESA driver, m64vbe,
reports 0 for numpages, so VESA video modes that were available in 0.91
were no longer available in 0.92.  This extra numpages check has
been removed.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------
v0.93 -- Never officially released; internal testing only.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
v0.92 -- Bugs fixed
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Typing long strings in the hostname or modem init field in the menus caused
crashes.

Under Win95 IPX was detected but not functional, resulting in the game
exiting to DOS.

If -nosound, got "S_LocalSound: can't cache" on every keypress in the menu.

When vid_nopageflip was set to 1 in VESA modes, going underwater resulted in
only the upper left corner of the drawing area being updated.

The single player scoreboard (tab) printed text incorrectly in all modes
greater than 320 pixels wide.

On network connections that dropped packets, the reliable message stream
could get stopped up, resulting in frag counts and talk messages no longer
being delivered, although game movement continued.

The com port settings from the menu were getting saved & restored but
not used.

Direct serial connections did not work with slist.

Quake now checks the vesa information for hardware incabable of page-flipping.

Menu sound sometimes didn't play.

Q95 (qlaunch.exe) frequently failed to execute on the first attempt.

Q95 (quakeudp.dll) was running out of buffers when running a server.

Teams were not being set according to pants colors.

-- Installed README.TXT

Additional Links:

Quake Shareware v1.01

Released as quake101.zip and qsw101_1.zip to qsw101_7.zip.

Announcements:

July 12th

That was prompt.
Quake shareware 1.01 is up on id's ftp site. A patch is not available yet (it's another full download), but Romero said "soon."

-- https://www.bluesnews.com/archives/july96.html

Links:

  • ftp://206.86.8.31/idstuff/quake/
==July 15== 11:25a.m. CDT

10:30a.m.
Sorry about not updating since Thursday, but I was having problems FTPing to my account Friday and was gone all weekend. Anyway id released v1.01 on Friday after I left town. Click on the log for the mirror sites to get it from. Note: it is a full download again, but a patch from 1.00 to 1.01 will be released shortly. The bug fixes have been reported to me as delaying the beginning of the registered shipments by 3 days to July 26th. Bug fixes in 1.01 are:

* Fixed modem code
* Fixed fraglimit & timelimit
* Added NOEXIT cvar (so no one can exit a level)

-- http://redwood.gatsbyhouse.com/quake/696.html (archive)

QUAKE 1.01 RELEASED
Adnan Zafar
13 July 1996

Quake v 1.01 was released yesterday. I heard about it at about 10:40 P.M..
It fixes the modem code, it doesn't allow anyone to leave the level is
deathmatch, and it fixes the fraglimit and timelimit. You can get it from
id's ftp site, stomped's ftp site, and walnut creek's ftp site. There is
no patch to go from 1.00 to 1.01 ready yet so you will have to download it
all over again.
Happy Quaking
--
Adnan Zafar
[email protected]

-- rec.games.computer.quake.misc

Archive content:

    36064 12 Jul  1996 DEICE.EXE
      396 12 Jul  1996 FILE_ID.DIZ
      309 12 Jul  1996 INSTALL.BAT
  1397174 12 Jul  1996 QSW101.1
  1433600 12 Jul  1996 QSW101.2
  1433600 12 Jul  1996 QSW101.3
  1433600 12 Jul  1996 QSW101.4
  1433600 12 Jul  1996 QSW101.5
  1433600 12 Jul  1996 QSW101.6
   402762 12 Jul  1996 QSW101.7
      213 12 Jul  1996 QSW101.DAT
      851 12 Jul  1996 README.TXT

Installation directory (installed via dosbox):

.
├── CWSDPMI.EXE
├── GENVXD.DLL
├── HELP.TXT
├── ID1
│   ├── CONFIG.CFG
│   └── PAK0.PAK
├── LICINFO.TXT
├── MANUAL.TXT
├── MGENVXD.VXD
├── ORDER.TXT
├── PDIPX.COM
├── Q95.BAT
├── QLAUNCH.EXE
├── QUAKE.EXE
├── QUAKEUDP.DLL
├── README.TXT
├── SLICNSE.TXT
└── TECHINFO.TXT

Readme snippet:

*********************************************************************
***               Welcome to Quake Shareware v1.01!               ***
*********************************************************************

Please consult the README.TXT file for the latest-breaking information
on this Quake version!
...

Changelog:

======================================================
==                 Version History                  ==
======================================================
v1.01 -- Bugs fixed
------------------------------------------------------
* Fixed modem code
* Fixed fraglimit & timelimit
* Added NOEXIT cvar (so no one can exit a level)
------------------------------------------------------
v1.00 -- Bugs fixed
------------------------------------------------------
* Gravis Ultrasound audio support (still has bugs)
* More deathmatch start spots on E1M6 and END
* Print server version and PROG CRC on connect
* -dedicated starts start.map if nothing else specified
* fixed lookspring function during net game
* fixed rare crash during long running dedicated server
...

-- Installed README.txt

Additional Links:

Quake Shareware v1.06

Released as quake106.zip and qsw106_1.zip to qsw106_7.zip.

Announcements:

October 2nd

Quake 1.06 Released
Available at id's FTP site. Thanks to everyone who mailed me, the first being Ronald J Davis aka PostalWorker.

-- https://www.bluesnews.com/archives/sept96-5.html

Links:

  • ftp://ftp.idsoftware.com/idstuff/quake/
==October 2== 10:30p.m. CDT

3:10p.m. CDT
Uhh, since nobody I noticed seems to have noticed, QUAKE 1.06 is OUT!! Read what's changed. Get the shareware quake106.zip (9meg), or the patch q101-106.zip (355k). Don't forget about the Win32 v1.06 Server. And you thought I was getting slow in my old age. BTW, I give credit to Notify (part of Symantec's Internet Fast Find package) for keeping me young and swift. Everybody must be having a nice siesta right now. ;) What was that? You say Stomped was supposed to be first? I hate when I do that. ;)

-- http://redwood.gatsbyhouse.com/quake/1096.html (archived)

Links:

() Quake v1.06 released ()
Frans P. de Vries
2 Oct 1996

id Software just released the long-awaited version 1.06 of Quake.
The complete array of files is available:
quake106.zip full 9MB shareware release
qsw106_?.zip shareware release in 7 parts of 1.44MB
q101-106.zip upgrade patch v1.01 to v1.06 (363kB)
qwded106.exe dedicated Win32 server (217kB)
progs106.zip latest Quake-C sources and progs.dat (231kB)

from id's server and the idgames2 archive:

ftp://ftp.idsoftware.com/idstuff/quake/
ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/idgames2/idstuff/quake/

and within a day or so from more than a dozen idgames2 mirrors around
the world.
--
Frans P. de Vries | [email protected] | Doom/Quake archive backup maintainer

-- rec.games.computer.quake.announce

Archive content:

    36064 26 Sep  1996 deice.exe
      311 26 Sep  1996 install.bat
  9086574  1 Oct  1996 resource.1
      196  1 Oct  1996 resource.dat

Installation directory (installed via dosbox):

.
├── CWSDPMI.EXE
├── GENVXD.DLL
├── HELP.TXT
├── ID1
│   ├── CONFIG.CFG
│   └── PAK0.PAK
├── LICINFO.TXT
├── MGENVXD.VXD
├── ORDER.TXT
├── PDIPX.COM
├── Q95.BAT
├── QLAUNCH.EXE
├── QUAKE.EXE
├── QUAKEUDP.DLL
├── README.TXT
├── READV106.TXT
├── SLICNSE.TXT
└── TECHINFO.TXT

Readme snippet:

=======================================
= readv106.txt - Quake 1.06 Shareware =
=           October 1, 1996           =
=======================================

This is the Quake v1.06 full shareware release.  We will also be releasing
a patch for registered users.  If you are a registered user and you are
reading this, then you've probably already downloaded it, so just copy over
your existing files to upgrade.

In addition to new .exe files, progs.dat, located in pak0.pak, has been
updated as well, so be sure to copy over your \quake\id1\pak0.pak file.


If this is your first Quake Shareware download, then unzip all files to a
\temp directory.  Then run the file 'install.bat' and it will guide you
through the installation process.

-- READV106.TXT

Changelog:

======================================================
==                 Version History                  ==
======================================================
v1.02 -- Bugs fixed
------------------------------------------------------
* Had to remove one ambient track from CD for retail
* Rewrote "please register" text on start.map
------------------------------------------------------
v1.01 -- Bugs fixed
------------------------------------------------------
* Fixed modem code
* Fixed fraglimit & timelimit
* Added NOEXIT cvar (so no one can exit a level)
------------------------------------------------------
v1.00 -- Bugs fixed
------------------------------------------------------
* Gravis Ultrasound audio support (still has bugs)
* More deathmatch start spots on E1M6 and END
* Print server version and PROG CRC on connect
* -dedicated starts start.map if nothing else specified
* fixed lookspring function during net game
* fixed rare crash during long running dedicated server
...

-- Installed README.txt

Additional Links:

References