Func_Msgboard: Who Most Old-School Here?

Posted by RickyT33 on 2008/06/26 17:47:20

I can't really claim to being particularly Old-School, I used to play Quake in 1997 on a P133 with 16mb RAM and Windows 95. I think. It was a long time ago. Err, it WAS a long time ago! I have only one map which I managed to salvage from some floppys, which I will never post, it's got three rooms and a corridor, and loads of trigger_once messages which make me laugh!

But really I only entered into this community last year! And my only other experience of mapping was for Witchaven 2, using the Duke Nukem Build engine.

(Gratuatous shots)

http://www.gamershell.com/pc/witchaven_2/screenshots.html

Hehe - I actually bought my copy of Quake and Witchaven 2 at the same time, from Cash Converters. I remember at the time pretty much all of the mods and tools I had came from PC game magazine CDs. And to think I downloaded the Bioshock demo the other day, just to see how my PC handled it (!)

Hehe - Anyhoo, I know some of you guys must have some pretty cool more public old-school tie-ins n' stuff. Reminisce / fight about it here!

Also somebody should be eventually humiliated / named as the most old school Quaker here!

(a true old school person would never post on a thread like this ?)

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Meh

#11 posted by Kinn on 2008/06/26 20:15:49

I go back as far as Quake/Quake2. I didn't really start playing games until a year before Quake 2 was released. I sort of considered gamers as socially retarded losers, until I started playing games myself - that was when it dawned on me that I was also a socially retarded loser.

Even then, it was many years after that before I bothered having a go at mapping.

I'm

#12 posted by ijed on 2008/06/26 20:31:17

Fairly old school because I still play and make maps for Quake 1.

Hmm

#13 posted by nonentity on 2008/06/26 20:49:36

What czg and Lun said (Sleep still posts occaisionally tho, but he works with headshot iirc)

I thought Sham was fairly old timey tho, I'm sure you were reviewing before I discovered worldcraft.

Scampie is surprisingly old timey too, damn shrimp has been around forever. (And iirc was the one who posted the QBoard is dying thread ;)

Anyway, this thread is somewhat pointless epeening (and given I think it spawned from a post I made, I'm very, very sorry), the only useful thing I can think of is; does anyone have archives of QBoard/PnF/QMap lying around? I know that the QBoard archive was uploaded by headshot a while back, but then it disappeared again :(

Oh, and Willem = Taskmaster?

#14 posted by JneeraZ on 2008/06/26 20:50:02

Yeah, Taskmaster.

Hmm

#15 posted by nonentity on 2008/06/26 20:56:06

That was too fast a reply man, go work on Gears2 and send me a copy kthxbai. Completed the first one too many times to replay now :(

(Oh, and less caves pls ;)

But yeh, in that case Willem is scarily old school too.

#16 posted by - on 2008/06/26 21:14:27

Frib and Shambler have been 'here' the longest.

And yes, I did post that thread. I also did this:
http://tarot.telefragged.com/scampie/screens/qmapbanners.jpg

Hmm

#17 posted by nonentity on 2008/06/26 21:22:58

kek, think I missed that at the time, genius.

From that screen tho, does the QMap cafe press store still exist? I still want a mug

Well Old...

#18 posted by Mike Woodham on 2008/06/26 21:35:22

...programming my first game on a Sinclair ZX81 with 1K of RAM: vertical scroller using letters of the alphabet as falling 'spaceships'

...using Prestel

Quake Didn't Start Mapping

#19 posted by HeadThump on 2008/06/26 21:49:03

until '03. Mapped for Thief in '01. Did some machinima for Deus Ex (thanks Willem, UnrealEd 2 was very helpful for that) in between. Before that, back in the 80's when I had an Amiga and an Atari ST, there were few commercially available games, but there were magazines available at the time with pages of game code. I would type in the code only to find that most games ran too slow to be fun. With that problem in hand I taught myself assembly to eek out some speed in that shit. One game was a Time Bandits clone. Quite amusing.

Also, I Recall

#20 posted by HeadThump on 2008/06/26 21:52:37

when Wolfenstein came out, I was heavily into fantasy RPG's like Ultima 4&5&6. I had an elitist attitude towards shooters at the time, and regarded them as being too simplistic.

#21 posted by - on 2008/06/26 22:09:53

http://www.cafepress.com/qmap
http://www.cafepress.com/qmap2
http://www.cafepress.com/qmap3

Hmm

#22 posted by nonentity on 2008/06/26 22:22:50

<3

Ordered http://www.cafepress.com/qmap3.697054

Was a tie between that and the standard logo mug, but I like the idea of getting a mug with a domain that is now camped by a sales page

Ahh, Qmap

#23 posted by DaZ on 2008/06/27 01:50:18

it brings a tear to the eye! :)

I got my 1st pc in 1996 and got connected to the net in 97' ish I think.

I think duke nukem 3d was the first thing I ever installed on my pc, then Quake of course, and only in that order because I had the duke 3d disks on me at the time the pc arrived :)

Yeah, floppy disks, I am old-skool!

OMG

#24 posted by Mr Fribbles on 2008/06/27 14:05:24

Scampie you fucking legend, I've been wanting a replacement Electric Fish mousepad for ages and I couldn't remember where the hell that site was...

And look at that "who's who" shirt! (Go for the larger image option, choose the back and then go ZOOM IN... !)

Oh God That's Creepy. That Is So Creepy.

#25 posted by czg on 2008/06/27 14:13:33

http://www.cafepress.com/cp/moredetails.aspx?productNo=694285&pr=B&showbleed=false&colorNo=0&tab=1&Zoom=2

#26 posted by Tronyn on 2008/06/27 14:38:32

I made a couple crappy Q1SP maps in 1997, but soon gave up. I didn't go back to Quake until after Heretic II died. I still remember when Shambler refused to review my first version of Phantasmal Garrison back in 1999. heh. I can see why too.

\o/

#27 posted by DaZ on 2008/06/27 15:52:29

famous!

...bleh

Dfgag

#28 posted by megaman on 2008/06/27 16:13:44

BORING

That Fish Thing

#29 posted by Vigil on 2008/06/27 20:03:37

Frib gets the prize for The Most Old School, because he made the Electric Fish board.

That lead on to Qboard, which turned to Qmap, which (after a few versions) eventually lead to func. You can see Frib's board as the first iteration of the current community.

Even before the Fish board though, I think the community was mostly centered around review sites (and actual Quake servers), including crash, Matt Sefton and Talon.

And I don't see how Willem counts, seeing as he changed his nick and all. Yeah.

#30 posted by gibbie on 2008/06/27 20:28:29

vigil you forget peej n frib which was our site before qmap

Yes

#31 posted by Vigil on 2008/06/27 21:15:42

But it wasn't a forum as such.

#32 posted by - on 2008/06/27 21:40:50

Frib, you are a fucking legend. I mean, seriously... 100+ hours in TF2 as an engineer?

#33 posted by - on 2008/06/27 21:41:44

Vigil, you forgot Ramshackle.

#34 posted by JneeraZ on 2008/06/27 22:14:49

No love for MPQ? I hate you all!

#35 posted by metlslime on 2008/06/28 01:30:16

my first released map was in 97, so i guess that makes me pretty old school. Though i didn't really join the qboard/qmap community until it was hosted at qmap.org, which makes me kind of late to this group. Before that I was part of the THRED mailing list, which was basically an email version of the type of community we have here (mapping help, beta testing, general bullshit, etc.)

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