Definitive quake files list?

[kbdrate]

I'm curious how many files we've lost in time since quake is 10 years old. Is anyone else interested in setting up a list of all known quake1 files (with checksums)?

We can start with the planetquake archives (I have a copy - 36 GB but it's not all quake related). Does anyone have telefragged? I might break down and buy an account to one of those annoying download services (filefront or whatever) so I can mirror it.

Even quake3 files/mods are getting hard to find. Try finding the SDK for quake3rally. We don't have to worry about setting up distribution yet. It would be nice to know where we stand as a community. How much of our quake history has been lost? There's an Internet archive that's invaluable for finding lost sites but not files. We don't have anything like that for quake. Maybe they would even host it if we get organized. This was the start of a gaming revolution.

Quake1 had an unbelievable amount of maps and mods. We not only had the first huge multiplayer 3D game, but an uncontested one. There was tremendous effort poured into one game (unlike today which is so fragmented). There was a lot of time spent developing things for quake. To this day I still will load up something I've never played just to experience it. Someone put a lot of work into it...

[Baker]

kbdrate, a lot of us are concerned about that.

There is a massive single player maps archive at Quaddicted.com which for the most part has every single player map creation worth playing that was ever made.

http://www.quaddicted.com

At least 1000 single player maps.

There is also a remaining PlanetQuake mirror:

http://www.gamers.org/pub/idgames2/levels/

There are a lot of members of the community that care about preserving old Quake files and have backups. Eventually I imagine this stuff to end up in new depots.

[Lerster]

Yes ....

But quadaddicted.com strickly asks u not to use mirror programs like httrack to leech all the maps there.... or he threatens to remove them....

[kbdrate]

There is a massive single player maps archive at Quaddicted.com which for the most part has every single player map creation worth playing that was ever made.

Unfortunately, he changed the layout so you now have to cycle through the maps 30 per page. I understand why he did that so people wouldn't wget all of the maps. I asked him to provide a list with checksums so I can see how many I'm missing and also verify that we have the same version/not corrupted. And I can download them from other places so he doesn't have his bandwidth used up.

There is also a remaining PlanetQuake mirror:

http://www.gamers.org/pub/idgames2/levels/

Actually, they removed the PlanetQuake section of the mirror years ago. Once they did (or whoever is the master), all the mirrors followed suit and there's only 1 copy online of the PlanetQuake archives. And it's not the easiest FTP to find. It's probably easier since people have mentioned it recently. Back when I was looking for one, I went through 20-30 FTP search engines before I found it.

There are a lot of members of the community that care about preserving old Quake files and have backups. Eventually I imagine this stuff to end up in new depots.

There may be fewer backups than you think. And they are deteriorating as we speak. I wouldn't be surprised if CDs from that long ago are starting to fail. I've had CDs fail in far shorter time than that.

I was looking for a backup of the malice website and no one (yet) has a full copy. I found some files from the planetquake archive of epoch's site and someone was nice enough to provide a zip with a partial archive of the site.

I'm especially concerned about files that were hosted on non-planetquake or telefragged sites. These are probably not archived in filefront/fileplanet/etc and there are fewer copies out there.

[Spirit]

But quadaddicted.com strickly asks u not to use mirror programs like httrack to leech all the maps there.... or he threatens to remove them....

I wrote that in the /dm folder only (as far as I remember). I should remove that text maybe since now I have enough bandwidth/traffic to deal with 5x the actual load. For the singleplayer files there just is no directory listing for the public, that's why you can't get them all easily. You can always just ask me and I will let you leech whatever you want however you want.

(Oh, and it's quaddicted )

About /planetquake... I had the chance to grab it from sunet after they closed so I could host it. I would need to provide something that is not only a "download site" (like a dir listing) because my host disallows that. I tried contacting the people from http://www.doomworld.com/idgames/ for their code but got no answer (Cheapy tried it too).

Johnny_cz had the idea of a DC++ hub for Quake related files ( http://quakeworld.nu/forum/viewtopic.php?id=619 ). I LOVE this idea and I already setup a test hub at my home pc ( 80.171.85.91 ). I'll be providing a "real" hub somewhen soon if everything wents right.
Such a p2p technique would remove the need of huge http/ftp archives. Of course speeds would be a bit slower but who cares? You could also just look what files a user has/who a certain file has and ask him to mail or provide a http/ftp download. What do you think about this?