Quake 2

Update: Please see https://quake2.itbacon.com for more information! Come check out my jump server, itbacon.com:27920

Had a lot of fun learning meson environments this weekend, and finally building a 32bit version of q2pro (in Ubuntu) to load old mods that never released source code. Now I can load gamei386.so mods. I even compiled an i386 version of q2admin just for the heck of it. I love how everything works still.

PacketFlingers excellent work with PakServe and pakutil made creating compressed pkz files a breeze.

Skullernets excellent work on q2pro made using it all just as easy. HTTP downloads, etc.

It’s absolutely wild to me that I can still load a quake2 mod from 20 years ago on a modern system. And everything works.

I’m running the best quake2 servers of my life and there’s nobody to use them anymore! It’s maddening.

I think I am mainly doing this for my own nostalgia at this point. There are definitely still a number of quake2 servers out there but there’s only a small, small handful of people.

I’d give anything for a truly active q2 community again. I want to play weapons factory, and freeze tag, and rocket arena, and expert CTF again.

4 thoughts on “Quake 2”

  1. Greetings…
    I see you’re running a WoD 7.51 server. I was in a WoD clan and ran multiple servers for years. I’ve been thinking about setting up one again. I love WoD but I’ll probably setup my old OSP Tourney server with Gladiator bots.
    It’s awesome to still see all these q2 servers running, but how I miss the good ole days.
    Anyway just thought I’d drop a line and say hi.
    Frag on!

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    • Hey man, thanks!

      I’m turning 40 in August and Quake 2 particularly had the biggest impact on me growing up. I’ll run servers as long as I can!

      Hoping to get them moved to a fiber host eventually. But as there’s not much demand for servers bandwidth has been basically nil.

      Appreciate the comment! Long live Quake 2!

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    • Hell yeah! Sorry I missed this, my email relay seemingly stopped working and I wasn’t paying enough attention to anything. And then this comment got flagged as spam 🙁 Happy to approve it!

      Anyone who is still playing Q2 is a hero in my book. It always pleases me to see some activity on the server log files! Hopefully someone is reliving a memory or two. Worth it to run those in my opinion. I was basically running a dozen servers off a single pi for a while, they are such lightweight services anymore.

      I remember trying to run a server and play the game on the same Windows 95 machine back in the day… seeing a message from “console” one time was the catalyst for all of that! I was like, I WANT TO BE CONSOLE! =)

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