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Unlike other mods, Capture The Flag is quite confusing because there's not one but dozens of different variants of Capture The Flag:
- Allstar (consumate mod of Threewave, ThunderWalker, CTF+, Expert CTF, Midnight CTF and Xeno CTF)
- ClanRing
- Creeper (lots of new runes)
- Expert CTF (just maps? & req. Expert Quake?)
- Hot Potato
- League Of Capture
- Midnight (Quake with no lights, but with flashlight)
- Pure (dozens of options, modes and features all configurable by the server operator)
- ThunderWalker
- ThreeWave
... and more...
So, if one wanted to play Capture The Flag, which version should they use? And to make things worst, some CTF mods are conglomeration of others, etc. or require perquisites of others...
It's around 17 years now and Quake 1 CTF still lives in my memory. I started scouring around the internet trying to find CTF download files (ThunderWalker, ThreeWave, Allstar, etc). As we all know, websites are born and then they die, virtually all CTF websites are long gone. I did use "way back machine" just to take a look at what the CTF websites were like, and get an idea of the last/latest versions.It would be good to create a CTF shrine somewhere, with links to wayback machine of last good valid URLs.
GameSpy/FilePlanet was were I usually get my Quake 1 mod files. After 2010, GameSpy / FilePlanet is shutting down, and hence files are disappearing now. The other place I've found with lots of Quake 1 mods is @ gamers.org (though beware some are not latest versions, eg. Hot Potato, etc.) It's good to know that we can still get Allstar & ThunderWalker. The only download I could not find was ThunderWalker Server 5.0....
Allstar http://www.gamers.org/pub/idgames2/p...tured/allstar/ alst101c.zip alst110s.zip
Bot+ http://www.gamers.org/pub/idgames2/p...tfbot/release/ ctfbotp070498.zip
ClanRing http://www.quaketerminus.com/hosted/crmod/ crmod65.zip crctf28k.zip
Creeper http://www.gamers.org/pub/idgames2/p...red/twcreeper/ twcnewcl.zip crpctf12.zip crpctf13b23.zip
Expansion ftp://ftp.clan-rum.org/quake/mods/allstar/ctfep.zip ctfep.zip
Expert http://www.gamers.org/pub/idgames2/planetquake/expert/ expctf2.zip etc
Gold http://www.quaketerminus.com/nqexes/..._gold_maps.zip quake1ctf_gold_maps.zip
Hot Potato http://www.fileplanet.com/93731/0/0/...tion/Mod_Files q1hp16.zip
League Of Capture http://www.gamers.org/pub/games/quak.../captured/loc/ locctf10.zip
Midnight http://www.gamers.org/pub/idgames2/p...ured/midnight/ 3Wmid422.zip
Orange http://www.gamers.org/pub/idgames2/p...ptured/orange/ orange_3_7.zip
Pure http://www.gamers.org/pub/idgames2/p...tured/purectf/ purectf199beta4.zip purectf199beta4_full.zip
ThreeWave http://www.quaketerminus.com/ctf.shtml 3wctfc40.zip 3wctf301.zip 3wave421d.zip
ThunderWalker http://www.fileplanet.com/93691/0/0/...tion/Mod_Files tw_all.zip tw40_cl.zip tw45_cl.zip
TWCreeper http://www.gamers.org/pub/idgames2/p...red/twcreeper/ twcnewcl.zip crpctf12.zip crpctf13b23.zip
I used to visit Captured.com for CTF news & updates back in the late 1990s. Here's a wayback link: Captured.com | Classic Quake Area for some interesting reading.
Unlike other mods, Capture The Flag is quite confusing because there's not one but dozens of different variants of Capture The Flag:
- Allstar (consumate mod of Threewave, ThunderWalker, CTF+, Expert CTF, Midnight CTF and Xeno CTF)
- ClanRing
- Creeper (lots of new runes)
- Expert CTF (just maps? & req. Expert Quake?)
- Hot Potato
- League Of Capture
- Midnight (Quake with no lights, but with flashlight)
- Pure (dozens of options, modes and features all configurable by the server operator)
- ThunderWalker
- ThreeWave
... and more...
So, if one wanted to play Capture The Flag, which version should they use? And to make things worst, some CTF mods are conglomeration of others, etc. or require perquisites of others...
It's around 17 years now and Quake 1 CTF still lives in my memory. I started scouring around the internet trying to find CTF download files (ThunderWalker, ThreeWave, Allstar, etc). As we all know, websites are born and then they die, virtually all CTF websites are long gone. I did use "way back machine" just to take a look at what the CTF websites were like, and get an idea of the last/latest versions.It would be good to create a CTF shrine somewhere, with links to wayback machine of last good valid URLs.
GameSpy/FilePlanet was were I usually get my Quake 1 mod files. After 2010, GameSpy / FilePlanet is shutting down, and hence files are disappearing now. The other place I've found with lots of Quake 1 mods is @ gamers.org (though beware some are not latest versions, eg. Hot Potato, etc.) It's good to know that we can still get Allstar & ThunderWalker. The only download I could not find was ThunderWalker Server 5.0....
Allstar http://www.gamers.org/pub/idgames2/p...tured/allstar/ alst101c.zip alst110s.zip
Bot+ http://www.gamers.org/pub/idgames2/p...tfbot/release/ ctfbotp070498.zip
ClanRing http://www.quaketerminus.com/hosted/crmod/ crmod65.zip crctf28k.zip
Creeper http://www.gamers.org/pub/idgames2/p...red/twcreeper/ twcnewcl.zip crpctf12.zip crpctf13b23.zip
Expansion ftp://ftp.clan-rum.org/quake/mods/allstar/ctfep.zip ctfep.zip
Expert http://www.gamers.org/pub/idgames2/planetquake/expert/ expctf2.zip etc
Gold http://www.quaketerminus.com/nqexes/..._gold_maps.zip quake1ctf_gold_maps.zip
Hot Potato http://www.fileplanet.com/93731/0/0/...tion/Mod_Files q1hp16.zip
League Of Capture http://www.gamers.org/pub/games/quak.../captured/loc/ locctf10.zip
Midnight http://www.gamers.org/pub/idgames2/p...ured/midnight/ 3Wmid422.zip
Orange http://www.gamers.org/pub/idgames2/p...ptured/orange/ orange_3_7.zip
Pure http://www.gamers.org/pub/idgames2/p...tured/purectf/ purectf199beta4.zip purectf199beta4_full.zip
ThreeWave http://www.quaketerminus.com/ctf.shtml 3wctfc40.zip 3wctf301.zip 3wave421d.zip
ThunderWalker http://www.fileplanet.com/93691/0/0/...tion/Mod_Files tw_all.zip tw40_cl.zip tw45_cl.zip
TWCreeper http://www.gamers.org/pub/idgames2/p...red/twcreeper/ twcnewcl.zip crpctf12.zip crpctf13b23.zip
I used to visit Captured.com for CTF news & updates back in the late 1990s. Here's a wayback link: Captured.com | Classic Quake Area for some interesting reading.
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