quakespasm VS ezquake-source

Quakespasm https://github.com/sezero/quakespasm

Forget the GOG version and grab a modern source port like Quakespasm: https://sourceforge.net/projects/quakespasm/

I wouldn't say you absolutely need to get a new PC. You could probably try using the QuakeSpasm engine. Pretty much any modern PC can run Quake, the "remaster" just has much higher system requirements than usual.

Can you elaborate on what you understand the correct location to be? Does this mean you have placed your music folder inside of your id1 directory? Are your music files named correctly, e.g. track02.[ogg,mp3,wav, or flac]~track11.[ogg,mp3,wav, or flac]? Have you looked at the documentation on music support in Quakespasm?

Get Quakespasm and drop the files in your Steam/steamapps/common/quake/rerelease folder, and use that executable to play the game. It'll work on older computers.

Yesterday a new update to Quakespasm came out. You can get it here.

Grab at sourceforge.

( I have sucessfully integrated a .net rewrite (https://github.com/Memorix101/SharpQuake) of the quake engine into unity and I've seen someone else do it for UE4. I'm working on PLUQ, which is a nanomsg nng interface integrated into an modern Quake engine (https://github.com/sezero/quakespasm, https://github.com/mdeguzis/ftequake, ...) that on game/level load provides geometry, textures, entities, ... and at runtime a bidirectional channel for the data (enity positions and inputs) needed to render and steer the game from a connected client. The connected client can e.g. be the rendering and input part of the original engine or something Unity3D, Unreal, Godot, ... based. I hope to open up Quake for experimentation using non GPL engines with this...)

I used QuakeSpasm.

ezQuake https://github.com/QW-Group/ezquake-source (I understand this and Qrack were used heavily in multiplayer?)

modern quakeworld clients have a lot of improvements added over the years: https://github.com/QW-Group/ezquake-source/releases

QuakeWorld (the "Internet" version of quake 1) is still very active. The source code was open-sourced by Carmack many years ago and the community has been evolving the clients ever since. Today the most popular one - ezquake [0] - features many improvements in performance, networking and teamplay features.

Anybody can download a version of this client along with a mostly playable version of quake [1] (that includes only the first chapter of the original maps like the shareware version but many or most popular multiplayer maps. And if you have the original you just need to place the pak1.pak inside the id1 directory and have access to everything)

There are many ongoing tournaments and QHLAN is about to be held in Sweden on November 17-20. You can find all about these in the quakeworld wiki [2]

To find the servers and games you can use one of two websites [3][4] or the in-game browser. The quakeworld EU and US communities are found on Discord. [5][6]

There is also an automated Twitch channel built by a community member that streams quakeworld 24/7 [6]

[0] https://github.com/QW-Group/ezquake-source

[1] https://www.nquake.com/

[2] https://www.quakeworld.nu/wiki/Overview

[2] https://badplace.eu/

[3] https://hub.quakeworld.nu/

[4] http://discord.quake.world (invite link for QuakeWorld EU Discord)

[5] http://discord.usquake.world (invite link for QuakeWorld US Discord)

[6] https://www.twitch.tv/QuakeWorld

Definitely don’t do that! It is trivial to build ezquake using source from GitHub: https://github.com/ezQuake/ezquake-source There is good documentation in the Readme on that page.