Let's compile Quake like it's 1997
Summary
An archival, step-by-step guide to rebuilding the 1997-era Windows NT/VC++6 Quake binaries, using vintage hardware or VirtualBox and a modern archive copy of the source. The article walks through installing Windows NT 4, Visual C++ 6, obtaining q1source.zip from the Quake Official Archive, and the quirks of building hand-optimized assembly. It serves as a nostalgic technical retrospective with practical hints for retro development environments.