This manual page documents briefly the quake command.
Quake is a popular first-person shooter game that appeared in 1996, released by iD Software. This
wrapper script will launch the Quake engine. The game data needs to be installed independently using the
'game-data-packager' program, and by default it will be looked for at /usr/share/games/quake.
This wrapper script accepts the two common GNU-style options to get information on the program. Any
further arguments are passed to the engine unmodified. Consult the engine documentation for full
details, but most engines support a syntax whereby engine switches are prefixed with a minus sign, and
you can give console commands by prefixing with a plus sign. See the examples section for some common
cases.
Additionally, if quake is run via a symbolic link whose name is quake-armagon or quake-dissolution, it
will play one of the Quake mission packs, ScourgeofArmagon (by Hipnotic Software) or DissolutionofEternity (by Rogue Entertainment). Similarly, if run via a symbolic link whose name is quake-dopa it will
play Quake Episode 5: Dimensions of the Past (by MachineGames). This requires that additional data files
are installed.