id Software Releases Quake Source Code Under GPL License
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This is the complete GPL-licensed source code release of the original Quake game by id Software, including winquake, glquake, quakeworld, and glquakeworld. The code was tested with Visual C++ 6.0 and requires masm for assembly language files. The software rendering versions rely heavily on assembly for performance, while OpenGL versions are less affected. The gas2masm tool was created to maintain cross-platform compatibility across DOS, Linux, and Windows.
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It is possible to change a #define and build with only C code, but the software rendering versions lose almost half its speed.
The OpenGL versions will not be effected very much.
The gas2masm tool was created to allow us to use the same source for the dos, linux, and windows versions, but I don't really recommend anyone mess with the asm code.
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