QUAKE(6)

📦 version 89, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 QUAKE 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the Games Manual section, we're talking about quake 🎮✨ classic first person shooter, the moment, the icon, the blueprint. let's get into it 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

quake — classic first person shooter 🌸

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

quake [WRAPPER-OPTIONS] [ENGINE-OPTIONS] [ENGINE-COMMANDS]...

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so this manual page is gonna give you the quick little rundown on the quake command, no gatekeeping 💅

Quake is a very popular first-person shooter game that showed up in 1996, released by iD Software 🌈 iconic behaviour honestly. This wrapper script's whole job is to launch the Quake engine for you. but listen — the game data itself has to be installed separately using the game-data-packager program, and by default it's gonna be looked for at /usr/share/games/quake 📁✨

This wrapper script accepts the two common GNU-style options so you can get info about the program (we'll get to those). Any further arguments? Those get passed straight to the engine unmodified — no edits, no opinions, we just hand them over 🫡 Consult the engine documentation for the full details, but most engines support a syntax where engine switches are prefixed with a minus sign, and you can give console commands by prefixing with a plus sign ➕➖. peep the examples section for some common cases 👀

ALSO, and this is the fun part, if quake is run via a symbolic link whose name is quake-armagon or quake-dissolution, it'll play one of the Quake mission packs:

  • Scourge of Armagon (by Hipnotic Software) 🗡️
  • Dissolution of Eternity (by Rogue Entertainment) 🌀

Similarly, if you run it via a symbolic link whose name is quake-dopa, it'll play Quake Episode 5: Dimensions of the Past (by MachineGames) 🕰️✨. This requires that additional data files are installed, so no skipping steps bestie 🙈

💅 OPTIONS 💅

these options are accepted for WRAPPER-OPTIONS in the synopsis, periodt:

  • -h, --help — show summary of options. your lil cheat sheet 🎀
  • -v, --version — show version of program. know ur build bestie ⭐
  • --debugger=DEBUGGER — prepend a debugger or other prefix (such as strace) to the engine command line 🔍
  • --print-backtrace — use gdb(1) to get a backtrace if the engine crashes (the gdb package must be installed) 💀😭
real talk: --print-backtrace will not do the thing unless you actually have the gdb package installed. install it first, bestie 🫶

🌸 EXAMPLES 🌸

just so you know, these are all engine dependent — your mileage may vibe differently depending on which engine you're running 🌈

Play the Zerstoerer mod:

quake -game zer

Play a specific map using the Drake expansion:

quake -game drake +map sludge1

Connect to a server for multiplayer:

quake +connect dm.quakeone.net:27000

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

quake-server(6), quakespasm(6), game-data-packager(6).

💜 AUTHOR 💜

This manual page, and the Quake wrapper script, were written by David Banks <amoebae@gmail.com>, for the Debian project (and may be used by others). The package was based on the quake3 package by Simon McVittie. 🫶 shoutout to the devs fr fr

okay that's the whole thing bestie, you're officially Quake-pilled 🎮✨ go frag some people. mwah 💋

this page is from 2016-01-16, in the Games Manual section, filed under QUAKE(6) — take care of her 🎀

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