Quake related e-mail Infos

There have been a couple of e-mails from John Carmack, and a few from others at id Software that have been forwarded to the Quake Developer's mailing list. These are available in the hypermail archive. For convenience, I have listed and commented the links to those postings in the finished parts of the archive.

Info from John Carmack

Info (1) on billboard objects, MAP files, qbsp, NAT's, and application specific data in MAP and BSP files.
Info (2) on BSP, MAP and NAT related changes.
Info (3) on mipmapping of billboards, view roll, QuakeEd ports, limited mipmap resolution and sky texturing.
Info (3a) on custom MDL files, z-buffering.
Info (4) on DJGPP linkeable release, linux version, palette and colormap replacement, QuakeC details, z-fill loop.
Info (5) on PVS and the approach by Seth Teller, view control, mipmap creation, use of DOOM textures, separated distribution of mipmaps, true color rendering, and 3D hardware.
Info (6) on QuakeEd and tools's sources, Rendition Verite, GLINT, 3DFX, Mesa, and vertex-free surfaces.
Info (7) on palette changes, sealing the map, NAT's again, Mesa.
Info (8) on OpenGL/NT Quake editor, QuakeEd ports, legal issues, QuakeC.
Info (9) on MAP texture alignment, push triggers, texture animation, palette replacement, hierarchical MAP files.
Info (10) on sky texturing, dynamic lighting, QuakeC control of billboards, texture animation control by entities, physics of BSP objects.
Info (11) on BSP object collisions. non-convex polygons, handling non-moving objects, walkable BSP objects, NAT scaling, DOOM level conversion, use of radiosity tools like HELIOS to create lightmaps.
Info (12) on Quake's data access.
on Qspy and QuakeWorld
statements from #quakecon

Look at the threaded archive for more.

Infos from others

Info from Dave Taylor on Linux Quake.
Info from Jay Wilbur on Commercial Exploitation License and legal issues.
Info from Jay Wilbur on legal issues.
John Cash on Network details
American McGee on MAP editing

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