I think I saw another thread somewhere around here where someone posted a Quake1 pak file or something that might've had content from the pak0 or pak1 files from Quake. Someone later removed the link because I guess it contained files from the original game. I can't find it again, so I can't be totally sure what I was looking at or what specific files they were. But it got me thinking about a pak file I made several years ago for Quake2 that had sounds and images taken directly from Quake1. It was so long ago that I can't completely recall, but I do remember that I didn't have a copy of Quake1 so what I think I did was I either downloaded a full version from a website for free (basically illegal), or I downloaded a torrent of the full version for free (also illegal) and then used files from it. I'm almost positive that I didn't obtain a shareware copy of Quake1.
Anyway, I took the Q2 pak in question off my site which is owned and paid for by the dude who runs Tastyspleen.net. He gives out free webspace to players who want to host Q2 related things. Since he's nice enough to never charge me for the webspace, I figured it would be nice of ME not to post copyrighted stuff on webspace he owns that might get him into trouble.
But he mentioned to me that all the same sounds and images which were taken from Q1 to use in my Q2 pak can also be found in the shareware version of Q1. Anyway, this is what he said:
And this is the page where I used to have the pak in question. There's preview pictures of all the images utilized in the pak file, but unfortunately I can't exactly give you any examples of the sounds without reposting the pak.
Focalor's Lair - Focalor's Q1 pak for Quake2
I'm pretty sure he's correct that since all the sounds and images can also be found in Q1 shareware that it's totally kosher to post it online. But I'd rather be more sure than "pretty sure". So maybe you guys know more about this than I do. Any suggestions?
Anyway, I took the Q2 pak in question off my site which is owned and paid for by the dude who runs Tastyspleen.net. He gives out free webspace to players who want to host Q2 related things. Since he's nice enough to never charge me for the webspace, I figured it would be nice of ME not to post copyrighted stuff on webspace he owns that might get him into trouble.
But he mentioned to me that all the same sounds and images which were taken from Q1 to use in my Q2 pak can also be found in the shareware version of Q1. Anyway, this is what he said:
Originally posted by Quadz
Focalor's Lair - Focalor's Q1 pak for Quake2
I'm pretty sure he's correct that since all the sounds and images can also be found in Q1 shareware that it's totally kosher to post it online. But I'd rather be more sure than "pretty sure". So maybe you guys know more about this than I do. Any suggestions?
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