In a similar spirit to Freedoom, for Quake fans perhaps you'll want to take a look at LibreQuake, which aims to do a similar thing to allow you to play Quake content with completely open source software.
  • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    2 months ago

    copyright used to only by 14 years plus a one time extention of another 14 years. Since quake 1 was released in 1996, it would be free for all to play with. Imagine being free to play with our own culture without all these work around.

    Imagine being free. I can’t honestly. Like a fish ,whose entire life was in a bowel, trying to imagine a ocean.

    • RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
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      2 months ago

      All of the Quake data files remain copyrighted and licensed under the original terms, so you cannot redistribute data from the original game, but if you do a true total conversion, you can create a standalone game based on this code.

      As I understand it the engine is Foss but the assets aren’t, like the doom engine vs the doom wad.