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Archive of 240 quake 1 bots

27 points by jasonb05 3y ago

bnabholz 3y ago
This is an incredible collection and I'm very impressed by the research folder and the discovery of all of these. I remember being amazed by the Reaper Bot and how smart it seemed, probably a result of how novel it was compared to other bots of the time. I liked UT even more than Quake though, and I thought it was cool that Epic offered Steve Polge a job based off of it.
- hypercube33 3y ago
  Quake 1 and 2 had so many awesome mods including bots. As a kid I think I hoarded 13gb of stuff mostly over a dial up connection just to explore what was possible. Side note would anyone know similar archives of say warcraft 2 ai mods or original StarCraft ai maps or mods? I remember finding efforts someone or a team did and they were insanely good.
  - jasonb05 3y ago
    Wow, 13gb! If you have a backup of your hoard (midden?) on a dusty old HDD, maybe you have copies of some lost bot files buried in there: https://github.com/Jason2Brownlee/QuakeBotArchive/blob/main/research/wishlist.txt https://github.com/Jason2Brownlee/QuakeBotArchive/blob/main/...
- jasonb05 3y ago
  Thank you kindly. I've dumped (wasted? invested?) many 100s of hours into the research of old quake bots, contacting the authors, trying out mods, parsing readmes, writing essays about them, etc. It's a type of hyperaddictive nostalgic madness that strikes me from time to time :) Yep, the reaper blew everyone's socks off. I wrote up a history of him here that might interest you: https://github.com/Jason2Brownlee/QuakeBotArchive/blob/main/research/essays/b23_reaper.md https://github.com/Jason2Brownlee/QuakeBotArchive/blob/main/...
bsagdiyev 3y ago
There's alot of neat Quake stuff on Github. Another repo of interest may be this one: https://github.com/SpiritQuaddicted/quake-code-archives https://github.com/SpiritQuaddicted/quake-code-archives -- I have a local copy of tons of RuneScape code: server implementations, clients, bots, etc. May need to get it presentable and posted up sometime.
- jasonb05 3y ago
  Spirit is a blessing to the quake archive community. We'd be lost without him (and the people he inspires).
- jzebedee 3y ago
  I would love it if you could share the RS archives, or at least get them in the hands of something like the Internet Archive. I also collect old cache dumps and RSPS repos but I've never seen a high quality archive.
boredemployee 3y ago
Imagine having an 1x1 competition between them all and to see who wins, streaming in real time and with an AI narrator.
- _chu1 3y ago
  That would probably be the best thing ever
- deleted 3y ago
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27 points by jasonb05 3y ago

This is an incredible collection and I'm very impressed by the research folder and the discovery of all of these. I remember being amazed by the Reaper Bot and how smart it seemed, probably a result of how novel it was compared to other bots of the time. I liked UT even more than Quake though, and I thought it was cool that Epic offered Steve Polge a job based off of it.

hypercube33 3y ago
Quake 1 and 2 had so many awesome mods including bots. As a kid I think I hoarded 13gb of stuff mostly over a dial up connection just to explore what was possible. Side note would anyone know similar archives of say warcraft 2 ai mods or original StarCraft ai maps or mods? I remember finding efforts someone or a team did and they were insanely good.
- jasonb05 3y ago
  Wow, 13gb! If you have a backup of your hoard (midden?) on a dusty old HDD, maybe you have copies of some lost bot files buried in there: https://github.com/Jason2Brownlee/QuakeBotArchive/blob/main/research/wishlist.txt https://github.com/Jason2Brownlee/QuakeBotArchive/blob/main/...
jasonb05 3y ago
Thank you kindly. I've dumped (wasted? invested?) many 100s of hours into the research of old quake bots, contacting the authors, trying out mods, parsing readmes, writing essays about them, etc. It's a type of hyperaddictive nostalgic madness that strikes me from time to time :) Yep, the reaper blew everyone's socks off. I wrote up a history of him here that might interest you: https://github.com/Jason2Brownlee/QuakeBotArchive/blob/main/research/essays/b23_reaper.md https://github.com/Jason2Brownlee/QuakeBotArchive/blob/main/...

bsagdiyev 3y ago

There's alot of neat Quake stuff on Github. Another repo of interest may be this one: https://github.com/SpiritQuaddicted/quake-code-archives https://github.com/SpiritQuaddicted/quake-code-archives -- I have a local copy of tons of RuneScape code: server implementations, clients, bots, etc. May need to get it presentable and posted up sometime.

jasonb05 3y ago
Spirit is a blessing to the quake archive community. We'd be lost without him (and the people he inspires).
jzebedee 3y ago
I would love it if you could share the RS archives, or at least get them in the hands of something like the Internet Archive. I also collect old cache dumps and RSPS repos but I've never seen a high quality archive.

boredemployee 3y ago

Imagine having an 1x1 competition between them all and to see who wins, streaming in real time and with an AI narrator.

_chu1 3y ago
That would probably be the best thing ever
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