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Quake retail version on Dos

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First post, by toshiba_t1000

Posted on 2026-03-21, 18:31

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I'm trying to determine how I can get the retail version of Quake running on dos. There are images of the shareware discs easily available on archive.org, but I have not been able to find any images of the retail cd. The gog quake release would appear to contain winquake, based on this post: Re: Phil's "Playing GOG.com games on your MS-DOS Gaming PC" Thread:

PhilsComputerLab wrote on 2016-02-21, 21:58:

With GOG's Quake release, make sure to check out the GOG forum, they stuffed up the time codes by 2 seconds, but that's easy to fix, just copy and paste the fixed cue sheet.

The main CD is a retail copy of Win Quake, works great. I usually install GLQuake too.

There *is* a version of the cd that contains the retail version and runs on dos, right? how would I go about finding that?

Reply 1 of 3, by feda

Posted on 2026-03-21, 20:33

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Of course there is and it can be found easily, but not here (read the rules).
The GOG release includes a DOS copy AFAIK.

Reply 2 of 3, by toshiba_t1000

Posted on 2026-03-21, 22:14

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feda wrote on 2026-03-21, 20:33:

Of course there is and it can be found easily, but not here (read the rules).
The GOG release includes a DOS copy AFAIK.

ah, my apologies.

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Reply 3 of 3, by leileilol

Posted on Today, 04:39

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The 1996 CD releases of Quake only ran in DOS. The Windows 95 installer for the 1.06 Id Anthology version's also just still a DOS game.

Generally the only difference between the installed dos shareware* version of quake and a normal regular retail version of quake is one PAK1.PAK file which should be identical for v1.01/06/09 releases (34,257,856 bytes, 1996-7-12), so you can just take it from your steam/gog's id1 folder and slip that in on your DOS shareware Quake install and play it with the shareware disc for the full experience. It was done this way so no one would have to run an annoying patcher program, and one could just extract a newer shareware version of Quake over their registered version to update the game from v1.01. (which is not the case for any of the later games). You could also go the other way and 'downgrade' a v1.09-06 install to v1.01 even!

*does not apply to Quake v0.9x shareware. There have been BSP format changes since

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