Comments on: Quake 1.01 / Shareware

By: faehnrich

faehnrich — Wed, 24 Jul 2019 10:10:33 +0000

In reply to neozeed. Glad you found that useful! It was fun learning about it.

By: neozeed

neozeed — Thu, 23 Aug 2018 00:07:10 +0000

In reply to Doc Oct.

Yes they are! Also you can update the doom to ultimate doom, and round trip it to all the other versions.

https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/2014/06/30/just-how-original-is-the-ultimate-doom-on-steam/

By: Doc Oct

Doc Oct — Wed, 22 Aug 2018 18:49:54 +0000

In reply to David Kuder. Oh man that brings back memories. That was a very famous thing to do back in the day. I forget how cheap the shareware cd was but it was probably $5 or $10 and then you just run qcrack to get the whole game. And I think Doom and Doom 2 and a few others were on there too. Hexen?

By: neozeed

neozeed — Tue, 12 Jun 2018 05:19:56 +0000

In reply to David Kuder.

I found a lot of information here on the aptly named Qcrack here.

https://faehnri.ch/flowlib-in-qcrack/

I was able to unlock the registered Quake 1.01, which was cool, although I have all the other games on steam, and I don’t know if any of these versions are notable..

I just didn’t realize that I needed to install Windows 3.1 with SVGA to unlock anything first.

By: David Kuder

David Kuder — Sun, 10 Jun 2018 09:40:54 +0000

The shareware Quake CD was notible for having a new software distribution system on it, with registered copies of id’s games in encrypted archives. The encryption scheme was quickly cracked and you could decrypt all the games on the disc, leaving you with publisher asssisted piracy.

By: Pir8

Pir8 — Fri, 08 Jun 2018 15:50:25 +0000

Links to all the old shareware versions can be found here:

http://kultcds.com/Games/index.php?page=game&game=22