<° Gamers: Quake natively on Linux

Quake is, without a doubt, one of the great classics of videogames, something normal considering that after him this Id Software, creator of other myths such as Doom o Castle wofstein, in addition to releasing some of its engines after some years, as recently happened with that of Doom 3.

In this article I will teach how to play the first Quake natively in Linux.

For this we will need two things: the game engine and the original files (on the Internet you can find the Shareware version if you want to try it before)

The engine in question is dark places, an engine improved from the original, which among other things improves the graphics, even a package that improves the graphics is even available on the Internet.

To install it we can either search in the repositories of our distro (Ubuntu has a package in its repositories and in Arch we can do it from AUR) or we can download the package with the source code from here.

Once the engine is installed, we only need the files of the Quake original that you can buy or download the demo here.. There is a way to get it for free, like I said before, with ShareWare, but we can't link them because Quake it is not officially distributed for free. Once we have the game we copy all the contents of the folder to the folder id1 (if it does not exist, then we create it within the directory where we have Quake) to / usr / share / quake and execute darkplaces (or darkplaces-sdl if you use the package AUR) and now we can play Quake.

Note: If we get a black window saying that it cannot find the game, or we want to use another path, the following command will suffice (without adding id1 at the end):

darkplaces -basedir /ruta/al/juego

I leave you with some captures taken by me:

 
You can download the demo or buy the game from your official website.
As a final note, I recommend this page full of material, mods, etc. from the first Quake: QuakeOne