no idea what causes this, try glquake together with this driver http://www.zeus-software.com/downloads/nglide (3dfx emulation)
Or download dark places?
I just recently played a 3rd party map from quaddicted.com and it kicked arse!
Thanks! I downloaded the newest catalyst driver (14.4) and if fixed it! 10 more years of Quake!
I was wondering...
Quake was a game changer, it is (was) extremely popular and we now have Quakecon.
Trent was indeed a part of Quakes success. The sound FX, ambiance and music track really helped to make the game. So, would Trent ever speak at or attend Quakecon?
Still listen to this one.
I fired up Quake the other day, and something occurred to me that hadn't before.
As a side-issue, following some of the earlier discussion about getting quake working, here are even more reasons why you shouldn't bother with GLQuake: https://www.quaddicted.com/engines/software_vs_glquake
Anyway, what I noticed was that the sound effects in Quake (also by Reznor) are all 8bit, 11kHz. They really jar with the quality of the music now, imho. It would be wonderful if higher quality sounds still existed somewhere.
The doom3 leaked SFX are 24/22kHz. I've never listened to them before, but I wonder if they'd fit in the context Quake.
So it turns out the pre-release multiplayer-only test release, QTest, has higher quality sound effects than the final game, also alternatives and unused sound effects in the PAK file. I'm exploring now.
Flattery gets you everywhere.
The sounds extracted from the PAK, zipped up: http://jmtd.net/tmp/sounds.zip
also included is a CSV which conveniently lists the sample and bitrates for each sound. (by me, I should add.)
If you want QTest itself, this link works Qtest Download
I had some trouble extracting the PAK file using conventional tools as it seems the PAK file format might have evolved between this and the final release of Quake.
Next up, I'm going to inspect the quake leaked pre-release beta and the half life alpha which apparently has unused quake assets in it too.
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Is Quake being re-released or something? Is there any way you can buy quake which includes the soundtrack without having to put the CD in?
to open the quake pak you need pak explorer.
1st tool
http://www.quaketerminus.com/tools.shtml
I was on a Mac, so I only tried the command-line tools, which I could build OK but none of them handled ID1.PAK. Someone I know on IRC authored a tool and uploaded it for me to https://github.com/E-werd/PakTool which worked. But I had to fire up a Windows VM to run it, CBA to get mono set up on the Mac beyond installing it.
Sorry for broken link, it's actually
http://jmtd.net/tmp/sound.zip
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A) Quake isn't freeware at all. There's a 1-episode shareware version, which is software rendering only and afaik a DOS executable, and that's it. The commercial game is still being sold actively. The engine source code has been released, and you can get many community-built, free engines, but you still need game data to play it.
But sadly, B), none of the places selling Quake nowadays (e.g. Steam) include the soundtrack. So you have to either buy a 2nd hand copy of the original CD release, or pirate (at least) the soundtrack.
Mods shouldn't work with the SW version of quake (just pak0.pak), yes, I remember that agreement at the time. But pak tools could open pak0.pak just fine. I've just fired up a windows vm again and pakexplr managed them both and id1.pak too. So the issue seems to be with the from-source builds of the amateur tools on a modern machine.
I think the most likely explanation for why the tools I tried failed is that they make implicit assumptions that don't hold true in my OS X environment and basically throw a wobbly, probably sizeof(int) etc. being larger than expected (not being a 32 bit system)
@jmtd Awesome, thanks for the upload! I assume it's just the /nin directory that's Trent's work - kind of sparse. I don't have the full/final game, does he have more material in there?
Your Quake soundtrack rip is probably wrong.
Quake was recently re-released on GOG, including the soundtrack (for the DOS version: included CD ISO). Someone has been looking at ripping the disk, and in doing so they discovered that the CD was mastered with the rare pre-emphasis flag set.
http://www.gog.com/forum/quake_the_o...offering_music
Read up on CD pre-emphasis here
http://wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php...is_on_audio_CD
recent iTunes versions can handle pre-emphasis on rips. I'm not sure about EAC etc. But, just about any rip that's been floating around the web is very unlikely to have applied the necessary de-emphasis.
I finally found my Quake CD, so I'm ripping it with some different rippers and comparing the results.
Checked my Quake CD-ROM and EAC says it has no pre-emphasis.
I have a digipak version with barcode 7 42725 12100 3
Is this story based on some other release with different audio mastering?
From what I read on a certain piracy site, the full retail version doesn't contain Pre-emphasis, and the tracks are bit-identical (besides the data track of course.) to the shareware release, which has Pre-emphasis. It's possible that the Pre-emphasis flags were made in error. I mean, it doesn't really make sense for it to have Pre-emphasis anyway. It's a pc game and most players are gonna be playing the soundtrack on their PC.
Last edited by Frozen Beach; 11-17-2015 at 10:25 AM.
I'm afraid the certain piracy site is wrong. I have the first release boxed edition of Quake retail, version 1.01 CD, which I bought myself in 1996, and it does have pre-emphasis set. Here's EAC For that disk:
I'm fairly certain the pre-emphasis flag was set in error, but what I don't know is whether or not the audio was also de-emphasised in error as well, so what is the correct version - de-emphasised or not? I'm currently leaning towards de-emphasis being necessary, based on listening to the results. But I'd prefer to come up with a logically tight reasoning for what would be right.
FWIW, back in the 90s CD-audio was been decoded by the CD-ROM drive in the computer and analogue audio data passed to the sound card over a dedicated cable. So the CD-ROM drive itself interpreted the pre-emph subcode and applied the de-emphasis curve.
@BenAkenobi , one possibility is your digipak is a later, fixed version. Would you be prepared to share a FLAC/EAC rip of that CD with me for testing purposes? I can reciprocate with a rip from mine. If so let's take it to PM.
Last edited by jmtd; 11-18-2015 at 04:33 AM.
I usually have this and a couple others playing on loop for most of my Halloween atmospheric needs, be it company party needs (we go all all out with the decorations) or at home for the yearly trick-or-treat needs. The high pitched sound in Parallel Dimensions works really well with the visuals of strobe lights, for some reason.
Last edited by jmtd; 11-19-2015 at 01:28 AM. Reason: video link
OK the good news is @BenAkenobi 's copy is correctly mastered. I've pulled together some scrappy draft notes and stuff here http://jmtd.net/quake/ - but in short, the freq analysis of the beginning of track 2 (first audio track) is identical between Ben's copy and a rip of mine with cdparanoia, which is a pre-empt-aware ripper (so it did de-emphasis on the cd audio after ripping).
I have a graph of a bad rip I can put up (which doesn't account for the preemph flag), plus some accuraterip checksums, more details about how various rippers handle etc. - I also want to overlay the freq analysis of a good and bad rip to highlight the difference.