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SOURCE RELEASE! SOURCE RELEASE! As promised at QuakeCon 2005, the Quake 3 Arena engine source code has been released under the General Public License. Also included under the GPL are the q3map tools, which is good news for people who use the Q3 bsp format under other engines. Here's the link to

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SOURCE RELEASE!

As promised at QuakeCon 2005, the Quake 3 Arena engine source code has been released under the General Public License. Also included under the GPL are the q3map tools, which is good news for people who use the Q3 bsp format under other engines.

Here's the link to download it from id Software's FTP
And an HTTP mirror

Development is centred at the Quake Standards Group website and forums, so head on over and get started!

SOURCE RELEASE!
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ShortCutMan
ShortCutMan - - 806 comments

yay! woo! hooray!

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grasn
grasn - - 401 comments

this is sooo great ;-)

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BloodShed
BloodShed - - 231 comments

Now lets see some engine enhancements :D

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amckern
amckern - - 359 comments

jc! u rule!

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mystery8
mystery8 - - 286 comments

Kickass. Shame no other company does this.

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SuperRad
SuperRad - - 828 comments

OMG 6 years later and it gets released!

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hot564231
hot564231 - - 192 comments

it's 6mb? HL2 code is 32mb or more i can't remember. but this mean's that we could be seing this on HL2 :) OR DOOM 3 or more like lay Quake 4

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BuZZeR
BuZZeR - - 636 comments

Cool! Respect 2 ID! =)

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