Quake Archiving Project

For links to the old cdrom.com/sunet you could use http://www.quaddicted.com/stuff/sunet.s ... rg.user.js but that is super old and ugly and could be done in 5 lines by someone smarter than me-5-years-ago.

Map sites:
For TeamShambler I got permission by Shambler to make the links point to Quaddicted. I just have to finally do it. Underworldfan wanted to host his site at Quaddicted but vanished, I should try contacting him again.

Yeah, well, hopefully this fall I'll have some spare time to work on the archives a bit, remove old FilePlanet links, banners, ads and make them standalone.

Hey all, I just found my kickflip quake site on reocities:

http://www.reocities.com/TimesSquare/Ha ... index.html

I'd be grateful if anybody could add this to a quake-related archive aswell, or point me to its location!

I'm also looking for contact details of Avatar ("TargetQuake") and Ryan Feltrin alias Ridah ("QuakeRally" & "Quess").
If anybody can help find out their email addresses, their mods are to be shown in a german computer games museum together with some other mods including kickflip quake.
Here's a link to the museum - http://www.computerspielemuseum.de/index.php?lg=en

The Museum has received the German children's culture award 2002 (Deutscher Kinderkulturpreis, special award of the Bundesministerium für Familie) and hosts Europe's largest collection of entertainment software and hardware.

Cheers,
Squirt

Ridah is working at Treyarch. No idea where Avatar went (or the rest of Gray Matter for that matter, the last game he worked on was CoD:UO)

thanks leilei, I've told them about Ridah.

All,

I'm pleased to announce that a new site I've developed covering the Quake series is finally online at http://bit7.org/quake. The site contains a large collection of map reviews and game info, but also contains a fairly large mirror section that is relevant to this thread. The mirrors are not just of PQ/Gamespy sites but other documentation and official content as well.

There are some things there available elsewhere, some that aren't and a lot of it isn't quite online or tested yet, but I'd appreciate any feedback and hope you enjoy the site.


Kind Regards,
David.

[scar3crow]

Initial thoughts, background image took forever to load on a rather solid connection - enough to where I thought the bulk of the page was white.

I really like the apocrypha section, the fact that its there, and the choice of name. I'll take a deeper look later, but for now, keep it up!

Initial thoughts, background image took forever to load on a rather solid connection - enough to where I thought the bulk of the page was white.

Are you using IE or Firefox, scar3crow ? The background shows normally to me in Firefox 3.6.8, but took forever on IE6 to render. Looks like some issue with the .jpeg compression, not related to the file size itself.

Took about 15 seconds for the background image to start loading for me too, in Firefox 3.6.8.

[scar3crow]

At the moment Chrome, but on inspection the background image is 1,087k and 2867x1075... That could be streamlined a bit, though I will say it does look nice. It rendered for me correctly, it was just so slow initially that I didn't notice it coming in as it was a vertical fill from the top and I was looking more around the center of the site, taking in all the (what I thought was intentional at that moment) white.

At the moment Chrome, but on inspection the background image is 1,087k and 2867x1075... That could be streamlined a bit, though I will say it does look nice. It rendered for me correctly, it was just so slow initially that I didn't notice it coming in as it was a vertical fill from the top and I was looking more around the center of the site, taking in all the (what I thought was intentional at that moment) white.

Thanks for the feedback, a few people have added some comments about the background, the pages don't currently have a default background colour, so I will be updating this to black, hopefully this will fix the problem. I'm not sure why it's so slow to load in IE yet, I've done most of the development and testing in Opera and Chrome.

If the JPEG image was compressed with high quality settings (and from what scar3crow commented about the file size that's looks the case) then it may be noticeable slow to decompress and show. And IIRC default Windows JPEG libraries are not exactly the most performatic out there, hence why any browser but IE embeds its own support.

QuakeOne.com is a very active community website you may wish to add to your links.

[scar3crow]

I've heard Inside3d is a cool place, not that anyone goes there though.

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