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Need for Speed Underground 2 now runs directly on Nintendo Switch — other Classic Windows titles playable thanks to custom firmware boot (tomshardware.com)

2026-09-14 | by Mark Tyson | get 8BitDo Ultimate Bluetooth Controller → | tags: nintendo switch, need for speed underground 2, wine-nx

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Scientists Say They Can Now Pinpoint Where Big Quakes Might Hit (gizmodo.com)

2026-09-09 | get Ready America emergency preparedness kit earthquake → | tags: gps, earthquakes, algorithm

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Back in 1996, Quake's shareware CD locked id Software's entire catalog behind flawed encryption that made it a free-for-all (techspot.com)

2026-08-20 | by Alfonso Maruccia | tags: quake, id software, shareware

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$10 Quake shareware CD locked copies of all id Software games behind a flawed encryption scheme — pay-over-the-phone system only held up for 39 days after 1996 release, leaving developer with 150,000 discs it couldn't sell (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-19 | by Jowi Morales | tags: quake, id software, shareware

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Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-17 | tags: quake, id software, cd-rom

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A Game Dev Used Retail Therapy to Navigate a Divorce, but Found a Long-Lost ‘Quake 4’ Expansion Instead (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-10 | tags: quake 4, id software, alpha version

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Quake Celebrates 30th Anniversary: New Official Episode With New Maps and Mechanics (slashdot.org)

2026-08-09 | by Posted | tags: campaign, levels, machinegames

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New official 30th anniversary Quake mission pack adds new maps and mechanics (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: campaign, levels, machinegames

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Quake turns 30, and it just got two surprise expansions in one week (techspot.com)

2026-08-07 | by Zo Ahmed | tags: game, machine, machinegames

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Nvidia sells RTX 50-series GPUs at MSRP during QuakeCon 2026 — graphics cards sold at launch prices more than a year after release are now considered an attraction (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-07 | by Jowi Morales | tags: msrp, nvidia, price

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Quake – 30th Anniversary Update (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-06 | tags: close, dawn, dawn machine

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Quake celebrates its 30th anniversary with a new free episode (engadget.com)

2026-08-06 | by Anna Washenko | tags: anniversary, game, game pass

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Nvidia turns RTX 5000 GPUs at MSRP into one of QuakeCon's biggest attractions (techspot.com)

2026-08-06 | by Rob Thubron | tags: cards, msrp, nvidia

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Show HN: Q3Edit – Edit and play Quake 3 maps in the browser (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-18 | tags: quake 3 arena, q3map, webassembly

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My favorite keyboards (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-29 | get Mechanical Keyboard Keycaps → | tags: ibm model m, ibm ps/1, 8bitdo

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My Favorite Keyboards (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-29 | get Mechanical Keyboard with RGB → | tags: ibm model m, ibm ps/1, 8bitdo

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Game designer Sandy Petersen recalls how Quake's development "broke" id Software (techspot.com)

2026-06-25 | get Quake Official Strategy Guide → | tags: quake, id software, sandy petersen

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There are a few things that I look back on as my mistakes in the early days (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-24 | tags: quake, doom++, 6dof

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John Carmack on the mistakes around Quake that ruined id software (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-24 | tags: quake, id software, john carmack

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Quake changed gaming forever 30 years ago today — seminal title established online multiplayer culture and made 3D graphics accelerators essential PC components (tomshardware.com)

2026-06-22 | by Mark Tyson | get Quake Remastered Game → | tags: quake, id software, 3d graphics

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Mo RAM, Mo Problems (2025) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-25 | get Mo RAM, Mo Problems Mug → | tags: ram, pentium, sdram

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Indie App Spotlight: ‘QuakeInfo’ is a fast and easy way to monitor ongoing earthquakes (9to5mac.com)

2026-04-18 | by Michael Burkhardt | get Seismograph Earthquake Monitor → | tags: quakeinfo, apple app store, ios 18.6

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It was 1995, 15-inch 800x600 monitors were the norm, what kind of monitor did John Carmack use to code Quake? (techspot.com)

2026-03-30 | tags: john carmack, quake, 15-inch monitor

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My DIY FPGA board can run Quake II (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-22 | get FPGA Development Board Kit → | tags: fpga, efinixti60f256, quake ii

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Razer Boomslang 20th Anniversary Mouse Review: For Collectors (wired.com)

2026-03-15 | by Henri Robbins | get Razer Boomslang 20th Anniversary Mouse → | tags: razer boomslang, halo ce, counter-strike

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Microsoft’s new gaming CEO vows not to flood the ecosystem with ‘endless AI slop’ (techcrunch.com)

2026-02-21 | by Anthony Ha | get Xbox Series X → | tags: xbox, coreai, quake ii

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The mathematical mystery inside the legendary '90s shooter Quake 3 (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-17 | by Manon Bischoff | get Quake 3 Engine → | tags: code, inverse square, number

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Clean-room implementation of Half-Life 2 on the Quake 1 engine (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-10 | get Quake Engine → | tags: game, half, life

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Let's compile Quake like it's 1997 (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-08 | get Quake Engine → | tags: quake, visual, windows

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Maingear's latest retro gaming desktop takes you back to the Quake era (engadget.com)

2026-01-29 | get RetroStation → | tags: advertisement, build, maingear