Description

JoeQuake is a custom Quake engine designed exclusively for speedrunning.
It was originated from the official id software GLQuake source code.

JoeQuake features several improvements over the vanilla GLQuake client, just to name a few:

• Independent server-client physics
• Ghost mode recording
• Browsable Demos/Maps/Mods menus
• Restructured, more detailed Options menu
• Mouse cursor in menu
• Supporting FitzQuake and RMQ protocols
• Supporting a wide range of custom mods (including Quake remastered)
• Colored static and dynamic lighting
• External texture formats (TGA/PNG/JPG)
• Capturing demos to AVI file

Binaries

Windows

You can download JoeQuake Windows (x86) releases here:

http://joequake.runecentral.com/downloads.html

Linux

Unfortunately this main fork does not provide any Linux binaries. You may compile your own Linux binaries from the following JoeQuake contributors (look for linux related branches):

https://github.com/kugelrund/JoeQuake

https://github.com/matthewearl/JoeQuake-1

License and Warranty

JoeQuake is released under the GNU GPL license. You may freely redistribute or modify JoeQuake as you wish.

Credits

Contributors

• Jozsef Szalontai - lead programmer
• Sphere - server/client bugfixes, several QoL improvements
• Matthew Earl - entire ghost recording feature, SDL port

Authors whose code was re-used in JoeQuake

• A. "Fuh" Nourai (FuhQuake additions)
• Anton "Tonik" Gavrilov (ZQuake additions)
• QuakeSpasm developers for every QS addition and their useful hints, tips
  • John Fitzgibbons
  • Ozkan Sezer
  • Eric Wasylishen
  • Axel Gneiting
  • Andrei Drexler
  • Spike
• Creators of the Minizip library: http://www.winimage.com/zLibDll/minizip.html
• fenix@io.com, for alias model interpolation
• LordHavoc, for lerping alias model textures
• Alexander Kovalchuk, for plenty of [sons]Quake additions
• Anthony Bailey, for the avi capturing code
• Slawomir Mazurek, for his help on linux
• CrashFort, for NeaQuake additions
• R00k, for Tremor/QRack additions

Inspirational persons

• Attila Csernyik
• Thomas Stubgaard
• Denis Nazarov
• Martin Selinus
• Nolan Pflug
• people @ RuneCentral forum, especially Baker and Sputnikutah
• people @ QuakeSpeedrunning discord channel

External resources

The JoeQuake package contains hi-resolution images made by the following artists:

• menu graphics, HUD icons, character sets by Moon[Drunk]
• HUD player faces by PrimeviL
• console background by Joseph "BootGuyJoe" Hanley
• mouse cursor (unknown artist, found on gfx.quakeworld.nu)

Jozsef Szalontai
joequake@gmail.com