Since it’s Quake 1′s tenth anniversary this year (starting June 22nd) I thought I’d dig up and release all of Quake’s original map sources. For all these years the only possible way to glean any information from Quake’s internal format was from BSP deconstruction programs – but those had problems with tons of brushes generated from insane BSP splits.
So finally, here are the originals with the dust blown off of them, shined-up and zipped up. Have fun, mappers!
Download Quake Map Sources and run it in an emulator.
To use these maps, load them with QERadiant.
Download this page in PDF format
This is cool. Can you also release the Doom map sources if you have them?
What exactly is the license on these map files? Are they in they public domain, GPL or still copyrighted? There is no mention of this in the post nor in any of the files in the .zip. Can you give us some more info here John?
(John: yes, the license has been updated to a real GPL license. No worries.)