Quake remaster released for 25th anniversary celebration

I was [CC] Peiter in soldier of fortune, playing very much on the UK Jolt servers and the Italian NGI i think they was called.
Cobra Clan did quite well back in those days.

I am eagerly waiting for days / games like that again, but that is not what they spit out these days.

FYI. I call everyone under the age of 35 kids, cuz at that age you could still well be a child of mine had i made any,and for that i would not even had to start with kids at the age of 17 like my kid sister did :mrgreen:
35 years ago i was 20.

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Originally Posted by Gentle Viking

I was [CC] Peiter in soldier of fortune, playing very much on the UK Jolt servers and the Italian NGI i think they was called.
Cobra Clan did quite well back in those days.

I am eagerly waiting for days / games like that again, but that is not what they spit out these days.

FYI. I call everyone under the age of 35 kids, cuz at that age you could still well be a child of mine had i made any,and for that i would not even had to start with kids at the age of 17 like my kid sister did :mrgreen:
35 years ago i was 20.

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I'm (just!) old enough to have a 35 year old son or daughter (had I had children), in which case, you're a kid to me! ;)

I just had the first multiplayer game on Quake since 1999! As crazy and fun as I remember on some great little maps.

What was the expansion pack that featured can 'o'beans and the grappling hook?

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Originally Posted by Saracen999

Yeah, I was sort-of aware. I can never remember the supposed length limitations on copper at various categories, though.

I have 2.5GBe built in to a few things, like the NAS, but not 5GBe. If I'm going to upgrade it at all, I'll go straight to 10, not 5. As for Saracen Manor, it's not so much East and West wings, more a case of front of house, bottom floor, to back of house, top floor, via a service duct that provides a built-in access route but mandates a fairly long cable run. At the moment, the cable modem and router and on first floor (Euro definition, not US) so cabling has to go down one, along a bit, up three, along a bit more, down another one, to get there. A mental guesstimate gives me something like 30m cable run, point to point. But moving the modem and router down one, then running one cable back to original location, and another up through the house, will shorten the run but might need another switch (or a bigger one). That run right up and through is what might justify the fibre bit. Though I suspect not.

Do I need 10GBe? Nope.

Do I kinda want it? :D

But more pragmaticaaly, I need to do a more accurate 'site survey' (i.e. measure up exact run routes), and cost it up both ways. My suspicion is that if I'm going to have to get that long run done, it might just be worth doing it right, and doing it once.

Oh, and it's a blend (at the moment) of wired copper and WiFi 5 and 6 (moving towards 6). A couple of machines would benefit from much faster wired speeds, or I could just use a wired backbone between Mesh nodes on wifi. That said, I'm sorely tempted to get some basic managed switches and break my stuff down into some basic VLANs for security reasons. Still thinking about how far to go.

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During major work on my house I had to replace all of my Cat6 Cable. I looked into the price difference and went for Cat6A (F/FTP*) as it was only about 20% more. I now have a Cat 6a cabled house :)
Cat7 is a dead standard (it was developed before Cat 6A. Cat6A is good for 10 GBe over 100 meter cable runs. Cat 7 in the real world is no better.
As mentioned before, be careful of the bend radius.



F/FTP = foiled/foiled twisted pair. Each pair is shielded with metal foil and the 4 "bundles" are additionally foiled. I have heard unsubstantiated claims around shielding with no earthing making performance worse. I have also seen substantiated claims with evidence that the unsubstantiated claims are a load of bollards.

YouTuber MVG (Modern Video Gamer) was a Senior Developer on this remaster.

He also mentions that he made a port of the original Quake for the original Xbox in the early 2000s, although he has a separate (and newer) video that goes a bit more in depth on that.