Thread:Deathstalker666/@comment-1496755-20180827202615/@comment-1496755-20180830212755

Rushing throughout the entire day (and the evening) to finish every possible thing, ensuring there won't be any distractions, especially unexpected phone calls from work. Well, I actually did so much stuff, that tomorrow I could probably goof off for most of the day :P

Oh, I think shareware is not supposed to support custom maps... at least this was the case with Doom, they specifically made a change in one patch to prohibit loading PWADs in the shareware version. Perhaps they extended this policy to Quake as well? I've seen a few other shooters of that time where the shareware version limits or completely disables loading custom content.

I recently found an archived version of a site that went down 3 years ago. But it's pretty useless because it consists of numerous large archives with names like "Archive 123456". And there is no way to search inside the archives - you'd have to download them and check their contents one by one... an impossible task, considering there are hundreds of these. This only stresses how important it is for such a repository to be well-organized so that stuff can be found easily within it.

Ooooh yes, the EU's new data protection regulations have caused all sites to display tons of annoying consent forms and warnings. It doesn't make much of a difference, though, it's just more stuff to click on. It also affected out student registration process, introducing even more paperwork.

Wading through Doom shovelware can be pretty crazy - there can be several different versions of the same thing floating around, or even the same file but under different names. And then we also have those anonymous compilations put together from whatever the author could get his hands on (sometimes causing new bugs in the process of sticking them together).

Just make sure you don't get that suspicious feel of a keyboard on your forehead and you'll be fine... stay awake!

Awww, I just realized your videos do not feature begging for likes, shares and subscriptions, as is the custom these days. Yup, you'll have to re-record everything and include a facecam as well.

Great job with the title page - poor thing gets updated pretty rarely. Revamping the soundtrack page is nice too - this is another thing that we should care to preserve for the future.

By the way, I was wondering about our upcoming server sessions - does it matter what version of Quake I'll use? Does it need to be GLQuake at all costs? Is there a risk of glitches and other weird effects, if other versions are used?