Quake (Original) option replaced with QuakeSpasm and 70+ Mods

Quake has finally been remastered recently, but we still also love sourceports, don't you? Well with this little thing you will be able to run Quake Original (the 2nd options after Remastered) with Quakespasm. And you still have Steam Overlay working though, with more than 70+ mods, such as Arcane Dimensions, Zerstorer, Slayer's Testament and so on, all ready-to-go!.
I have done this through years of on-and-off plays through mods for Quake. Several years ago I didn't had Steam and used to run game via custom batch selectors, with all its limits and so on. Then I have decide to adapt it for Steam, but using this time my favorite sourceport for the game which is Quakespasm (also the recent Spiked version too).

You have a cascade of mods I have selected and which I usually play (it will get updated from time to time), GLQuake and WinQuake are now fake executables replaced with a simple batch command which loads the PLAY.bat file, so you can even edit it and include your favorite mods if you want too!

To select a mod, you have just to type the letter assigned and everything else will be managed by batches done by me once you press ENTER, this without compromising any Steam features too! Here you are the list of mods included (26/06/21):

Main File
Quake (NO GAMEFILES PRESENT)
Mission Pack I: Scourge of Armagon (NO GAMEFILES PRESENT)
Mission Pack II: Dissolution of Eternity (NO GAMEFILES PRESENT)
Mission Pack III: Dimension of the Past (PRESENT BUT NOT REMASTERED EDITION)
100 Brush Competition v4 (19 maps with Quoth II)
A Roman Wilderness Of Pain (Custom Episode)
Abyss Of Pandemonium (Custom Episode)
Abyss Of Pandemonium Retail (2 Episodes)
After The Fall (Total Conversion)
Alkaline (Spiked)
Arcane Dimensions (Spiked 1.80f)
At The Gates Of Midian (2 Challenging Maps)
Bad Pak (4 challenging maps)
Beyond Belief (Custom Episode)
Blood Mage (Total Conversion)
Blue Hell (Custom Episode)
Castle Of Golgotha (2 Challenging Maps)
Castle Of Oblivion (Single Map)
Cataractnacon / Zeangala (3 huge maps)
Contract
Contract Revoked (with Quoth II)
Coven Of Ebony (Custom Episode)
Dig (Custom Mini Episode)
Halloween Jam 2018 (Custom Episode)
In The Shadows (Custom Game Mode - Demo)
Insomnia (Custom Mini Episode)
LTH Serie (Partial Conversion)
Malice (Total Conversion, requires USE button)
Moonlight Assault (Single Map)
Operation Urth Majik (Partial Conversion)
Pak 5 (Custom Episode)
Phantasmal Garrison v2 (Custom Episode)
Prodigy Special Edition (Custom Episode)
Quoth
Rapture (Custom Episode)
Raven Keep TC
Return To Dust (Single Map)
Rubicon (Custom Mini Episode)
Rubicon 2 (Custom Mini Episode)
Rubicon Rumble Pack (Huge Episode)
Runner's Delight (Partial Conversion)
Shrak (Total Conversion - v2 Fixed)
Slayer's Testaments (Spiked)
Solarfall (Start + Single Map)
Soul Of Evil (Total Conversion)
Special Forces Quake (Total Conversion)
Speedmap Session 193 (Custom Collection of Maps)
Ter Shibboleth (5 huge maps)
The Altar Of Storms (2 Big Maps)
The Castle Of KooHoo (2 Challenging Maps)
The Demon King (Partial Conversion)
The Final Descent (Custom Episode)
The Last Game (2 Challenging Maps)
The Lost Chapters
The Occursed (Custom Mini Episode)
Travail (Custom Episode)
Unforgiven (Custom Mini Episode)
Warp-Spasm
X-Men (Total Conversion)
YPOD Doom TC for Quake (Total Conversion)
Zerstorer (Custom Episode)

Patch v1.1 (30/06/21)
Alien Quake (Total Conversion)
Blue Monday (Partial Conversion - Uses Arcane Dimensions)
Epochs of Enmity (Custom Episode)
Realm of the Lost - SMEJ1 (Custom Episode)
Torrent of Impurities - SMEJ2 (Custom Episode)
Halloween Jam 2 (Custom Episode - Uses Arcane Dimensions)
Halloween Jam 3 (Custom Episode - Uses Arcane Dimensions)
X-Mas Jam 2019 (Custom Episode - Uses Arcane Dimensions)
X-Mas Jam 2020 (Custom Episode - Uses Arcane Dimensions - Spiked)
Dwell (Total Conversion - Still Work In Progress - 1 Episode of 4 - Spiked)

WARNING: No files belonging to commercial games related to Quake and Expansions are present, neither music, so you need to buy Quake and make sure that you have Id1 / hipnotic / rogue folders after (it should be implicit that you have Id1, the folder present on this pack contains only custom maps and dummy music folder with tracklist.cfg necessary in case you have original Quake music in mp3 format). The pack doesn't have still Dimension of the Machine selectable, will be added soon.
I suggest to get all Quake games from here: https://store.steampowered.com/sub/434/

IMPORTANT LINKS BELOW

Main File

To run this litte big thing, you need to unzip the content of the .7z file inside your Quake folder, which usually can be found inside steamapps/common/Quake, then overwrite everything (Id1 folder contains custom maps and my configs, nothing else but if you don't want your Id1 folder overwritten well just discard it while doing the overwrite process - obviously if you will discard this process, some mods included on the launcher won't work).

Quakespasm and Quakespasm-Spiked have been included with their 32bit builds in order to make sure that it runs even on old pcs, so this pack doesn't use 64bit builds just for that reason. You can download Quakespasm and Quakespasm-Spiked from their respective webpages. I also strongly recommend to update mods present on this collection by checking on https://www.quaddicted.com .

Boot Steam and run the game. You must select Quake Original, other options will not run my launcher (first option will run Remastered). In case Steam will override your install, no worries, just check inside #BACKUP folder and copy-paste GLQuake/WinQuake executables to overwrite re-installed ones, so you can play with my launcher again.

LINK: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rh_xneBWTiOmhY6J_BpxM_Ed5oRB2hz1/view?usp=sharing

Patches

Unzip these only after you have installed the Main File, so make sure to ovewrite old files and have fun!

Patch v1.1 - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lSs-eqA4lw2nTCKYxeQbIH1lJGcstEs-/view?usp=sharing

Useful Links

Here you are some important links:

Quakespasm - http://quakespasm.sourceforge.net/download.htm
Quakespasm Spiked - https://triptohell.info/moodles/qss/

Arcane Dimensions - https://www.moddb.com/mods/arcane-dimensions/downloads
Alkaline - https://www.quaddicted.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=893
Dimension Of The Past - https://www.quaddicted.com/reviews/dopa.html
Slayer's Testaments - https://www.moddb.com/mods/slayers-testament/downloads

[Ozymandias81]

Maybe in the future, with updated ports and additional mods

[HaikuLambda]

Nice stuff man, any more updates planned?

[Ozymandias81]

The version of quakespasm-spiked provided within my pack is 32bit so everyone can play it. Make sure to download latest version of it and keep slayertest folder name to be sure that it runs.

https://triptohell.info/moodles/qss/

[jack_epicster]

The message I get is Quake Error : R_RendeerView: NULL worldmodel

[Ozymandias81]

Remove the folder and place new one, but be sure to name mod folder as it was before... Still didn't test recent version, will check when I can

[jack_epicster]

How would I install the current version of slayers testament? I tried to overwrite the files but it crashes

[Ozymandias81]

Quake Rally removed from the list

[Ozymandias81]

Hey @Saftle thanks for comment here, happy you enjoy this guide! I still have to try vkQuake, but at some point I might include it as well on my launcher too. Btw there is a missing mod on the list, Quake Rally, but well soon I'll update my launcher again with new stuff, and hope that Dimension of the Machine will be ported somehow (I might always run it via Remaster Edition through the launcher anyway)

[Saftle]

Awesome guide!! I would however recommend vkQuake (fork of Quakespasm iirc) over Quakespasm or Quakespasm Spiked. It is still being developed and has more features than either one.

[Ozymandias81]

Main File description has been updated after Remastered Edition, it works as usual! Still didn't add support for Dimension of the Machine, will do next month.