Nothing on the package to indicate that - looks like Quake 1 full version.

Quake Shareware Pak Code To Activate

I get home. OOps - the CD only installs the shareware version until you call ID and get a special code to activate the rest of the levels.

So, basically, you can never trade Quake1 Is this right I mean, once you buy the software legitimately, it seems to me you have the right to selltrade your copy to other people later on (assuming you actually erase it from your drive and all).

With this call-in key it looks like you can only install this CD to ONE computer and cant ever sell ittrade it to anyone else.

So basically, I ended up paying 5.00 for shareware that I could dl off the net Seems to me that if the CD is only shareware the box should say so.

I think whomever bought the CD first DID pay for the whole thing, so I would think that he then has the right to selltrade it if he wants to, right Or am I wrong here Out of curiosity, I call the 800 number on the box and the automated registration wants 30 to activate it.

Bucks WTF For Quake 1.

Maybe talk to the guy some more about the code - maybe he wrote it down somewhere.

Find a program called qcrack, you can use it to h4x0r yourself a key View image: infopopemoticonsiconwink.gif.

It has the shareware for other games as well as Quake 1, and you can unlock them all with that CD.

But even if you dont illegally crack the disk, you got a helluva good deal.

Not only do you get all the ID games up to that point, but you get a full NIN soundtrack.

I saw a simple audio CD being sold in a store that only contained the Q1 soundtrack once, (no game) and it was like 25 bucks.

Damn RIAA) Methinks we will never see a game demo as cool as the Q1 shareware disk ever again.

I only wish I could pop my Q3A disk into a CD player and listen to the tracks.

This message was edited by Ramen Pride on July 17, 2000 at 01:00.

I bought Quake full tho, just used it for DooM View image: infopopemoticonsiconsmile.gif.

Maybe there was a shareware Quake on the CD in addition to the full registered version and that is what youre trying to install I can look when I get home.

I know I didnt have to call to get an unlock code or anything like that, it just installs automatically, no CD-key or anything like that required.

Rick.

The problem is, if you dont know how to program andor compile source code, it wont do you much good.

Besides, I dont think that the entire game was released with this code.

Quake Shareware Pak Plus All Of

It has the full NIN Quake soundtrack on it, plus all of the other goodies we have listed above, since it wasnt distributed as a music CD, but a game.

What a great deal Now, take away the game element, and let it be sold as a simple music CD, and all of a sudden the price bloats up to 25 bucks Insane.

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