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.
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!
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!