News

We haven’t had time to do much gaming lately, we’ve been working double duty lately.

Let’s tell you quickly what we’ve been up to.

Files…. files

We’re now hosting a file archive, which will be available via a few different means to people.

something may be at ftp dot idtech dot space or something

It’s obviously going to be used as the backbone for our new-and-upcoming sister site which will serve an archive of game addons. Why? Games on the Arcade will also be able to utilize these files.

Videos

We’ve been working on moving away from other video streaming platforms because our interests, values no longer align.

You can find an archive of 1500+ videos on id tech already on VIDTECH SPACE.

That’s gonna cover most of the games on this site for sure.

We also got permission from artists like LolMan4409 to host his videos! Some of which have since been removed from other platforms against his will.

CS on the Arcade

This summer we dumped a beta version of CS onto the arcade.

People have been enjoying it, but we’re working hard on a non-beta version. Hopefully this Christmas.

Archiving took a lot of time out of us this year, and that was sadly more important. For example, we just lost AusGamers this summer during our archival work.

Nuclide Development Video Channel

The technology behind a few games on the Arcade, Nuclide, has its development moved over from YouTube to VIDTECH SPACE.

Demo Discs

When I (eukara) was growing up in the city streets of Berlin, we used to find PlayStation demo discs in the dirt and in the bushes. Sometimes you could say they were littering the streets. Well, we sure did love those demo discs either way.

You can go play some, maybe find something you never played before and liked.

All of the games provided are limited demos. They’ve never been sold to consumers. We have been keeping this to NOT-FOR-RESALE discs. We will not add anything with a UPC code or a price tag, such as the PSU Jampack discs. We’re also using this free-software BIOS to run the discs themselves.

You may also find those available for streaming on the Internet Archive.

Many thanks to Dangerboy of Game-Rave for the scanned images of the discs and their sleeves.

Today is the launch of BRAZILIAN DRUG DEALER BEFORE 4 and to celebrate we’re making the DEMO available for everyone on the Arcade.

This is a collaboration between the development team and Frag-Net to bring the demo to portable devices and anything with a browser!

BRAZILIAN DRUG DEALER BEFORE 4 is a fast-paced ultraviolent BRAZILIAN old school FPS heavily inspired by the first Quake, and using the same engine as the game (ID TECH2). It is a standalone expansion of the hit shooter BRAZILIAN DRUG DEALER 3: I OPENED A PORTAL TO HELL IN THE FAVELA TRYING TO REVIVE MIT AIA I NEED TO CLOSE IT ! And It is A TRIBUTE TO THE BRAZILIAN MODS OF THE 2000S, THE BRAZILIAN BOOTLEG GAMES OF THE 2000S, BRAZILIAN MUSIC AND THE BEST BAND IN THE HISTORY OF BRAZIL, MAMADAS!

New features this time around include the Dash and the Double-Jump. Make your way through these urban environment alone (or together, cooperatively) in this multiplayer-enabled demo. Simply start a new server as you would, make sure Cooperative play is set. Your server will show up in the server browser right away.

Controllers are supported! Depending on your controller and device, there may be browser specific compatibility issues out of our control. Those do not exist in the retail version.

It’s true. You’ve all been noticing updates around the site. We can outline some motivations behind a few of them. Let me give you the rundown: Mirroring a lot of our files from our archives to the Internet Archive has been an uphill battle at times.

Very often a video or misc file trips their detection scheme and kills the entire page - and this time it has hit the files for Grand Theft Auto IV. We usually get them re-instated, but we can’t keep track of when that happens if we keep scaling the archive so we’re hardening things a bit.

We’re guessing it’s music used in one of the official trailers or something. Anyway we had to mirror those files, and started work on our own file dump to at least provide one mirror.

Took the opportunity to remedy some missing file sections. They will get proper pages on the Internet Archive page eventually. The new mirrors will work over both HTTP and HTTPS. We will hotlink them directly. We will not put up wait-timers or anything like that. Enjoy it while we’re around!

These pages received updates: Jedi Knight II, Heretic, NoX, ETQW, RtCW, Soldier of Fortune, Doom III, Hexen II and its Addon, Doom, Doom II, Wolf: ET, Duke 3D, Starsiege, Red Alert, Tiberian Dawn, Tiberian Sun, Quake II, Hidden & Dangerous, Unreal, Unreal Tournament, Unreal Tournament 2003, Unreal Tournament 2004, Dungeon Keeper, Dungeon Keeper 2, Command & Conquer Renegade, Unreal II, Rise of the Triad, Midnight Guns and Turok II.

You may have spotted some new game pages in there too. Enjoy a new trove of files. Some of them were easy to find and identify (as official/endorsed files), others of course were not. More is coming from your friends at Frag-Net!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!

Yes it’s true. The mod that got a bunch of teenage Aussies in the industry, the mod that stomped all competition, the mod that changed how we look at team based multiplayer, is now 30 freaking years old.

Inspired by a DOOM level by Ben Fletcher and ThreeWave CTF, Team Fortress brought with it a class based roster to choose from and gave level designers a way to implement any gamemode they wanted. This meant that no longer did a mod have to be CTF or DM, but rather the level itself! Plus who could forget that legendary intro by Damian Scott, brings nostalgic tears down our faces. Mr. Scott is still making machinimas to this day, check out his YouTube!

The mod quickly grew becoming one of the most played Quake mods even to this very day. Soon after, the team was hired by Valve, some went there separate ways while others are still employed there today.

Almost immediately Valve begun production on Team Fortress 2, killing the team’s original TF2 based on Quake II. TF2 was supposed to come out sometime in 1999/2000, but when things began to look uncertain, Valve threw the community a bone and released “Team Fortress Classic” onto the world. Despite it being an “example of the power of the HLSDK”, the code was never released for it… Regardless, TFC went on to be just as, if not more popular than the Quake mod, addressing a number of cheats and exploits, while also creating some new ones. Not to mention, it just looked visually great compared to the janky old mod. While only meant to hold us players off for a little bit, that time grew and grew into nearly a decade. At least that little gift gave us countless servers, clans, memories, and of course some of the most inventive levels you’ve ever seen. Of course other game communities tried replicating the success of Team Fortress, with ports being made for literally every multiplayer game under the sun. Few made a dent, because competition with mods like Counter-Strike was fierce.

Years went by, and the jokes started pilling on. Team Fortress joined the leagues of franchises like Duke Nukem, becoming officially vaporware. Valve of course was working on different iterations, and had released some big hits, but everyone still wondered if Team Fortress would come to this fancy new engine of Valve’s.

Well, just like with Black Mesa, the community figured “hey, we can do this!” and so work began on Fortress Forever, the best adaption of Team Fortress Classic hands down.

But finally, one fateful day in 2006, Valve released a trailer that would quite literally change many lives forever (including mine). That ticking clock sound still lives rent free in my head. Yes, it was finally happening, it was Team Fortress 2 at long last.

While there was much hubbub about grenades and the artstyle, it didn’t matter in the end, we all know the rest of the story from here. Team Fortress is now a household name in the game world, perhaps an elder one, but one respected and loved to this very day.

And when I say it changed many lives, I mean it! I’ve known people who met their current (or former) spouses on TF, it was the start of people’s careers in the entertainment industry, it (TF2) was game I showed to my first love and got her into PC gaming, and it was even one of the first mods any of us even played especially online!

Similar to DOOM, Quake + TF really changed everything.

So, happy birthday Team Fortress. It’s been an incredible journey.

Why not play some TF with bots on the arcade? Or perhaps load up Fortress One and see the modern take by the community. Fortress Forever is on Steam and even runs on Linux now (thanks mv!), or perhaps you’d like to join Team Fortress 2 Classified’s celebration? There’s plenty of Fortress to go around.

Here’s to another 30 years, and remember:

There’s no I in TEAM FORTRESS!

Fresh off the heels of our QuakeCon visit, we had the chance to meet and hangout with the brilliant minds behind BRAZILIAN DRUG DEALER 3, the hot new Quake game that has shaken up the industry (no really!).

Joeveno, the creator and NoQuarter Software, the publisher, talked with us over the course of the event, even letting us pick at their brain for an interview. One thing we discussed with them was the idea of putting BDD3’s demo on Frag-Net so people could try it out with ease. They liked the idea so much they even entered the Matrix to talk and help us get it running.

We will be posting that interview soon, but for the meantime, BRAZILIAN DRUG DEALER 3 is now on Frag-Net and you can play it on our Arcade RIGHT NOW! What are you waiting for? That portal to hell’s not going to close itself!

Also, if you enjoy the game please give them some bucks and get a copy off Steam, [Itch.io](https://joeveno.itch.io/aviozinho-do-trfico-3abri-um-portal-pro-inferno-na-favela-tentando-reviver-tim-m], or even a DRM-Free Physical CDROM. We got one, it’s a must buy.

In addition, we have some more exciting Aracde updates to share later this month, Get Psyched!