Looking for a comprehensive list of Quake 1 command line variables.

March 18, 2004 10:40 AM

Google hates me. For some reason, it's refusing to provide me with a comprehensive list of Quake 1 command line variables. Can you?
posted by armoured-ant to Computers & Internet (6 answers total)

Quake Console Command Pages. Google likes me.
posted by perplexed at 11:03 AM on March 18, 2004

Response by poster: Gah. Wrong answer. I'm looking for the prelaunch command line stuff, not the ingame console commands.

Includes things like -game, -width and others.
posted by armoured-ant at 11:08 AM on March 18, 2004

Are you running the original DOS version or something more recent? Either way, have you tried giving the parameters /?, /help, /h, -h, -help, --help, -? etc? If none of that works and you're using a unix version (or the DOS version but happen to have a prompt on a unix machine handy) you could try running strings on the binary (and any overlays/libraries), and grepping for everything that begins with '-' or '/'. Don't expect any extra explanation of meaning, but it should get you all the possibilities.
posted by fvw at 11:33 AM on March 18, 2004

That sounds like it could have been a FAQ.
posted by reynaert at 11:48 AM on March 18, 2004

How about this?
posted by monju_bosatsu at 11:50 AM on March 18, 2004

Kapow! Nestled deep within a console command list. Looks pretty comprehensive.
posted by Monster_Zero at 11:50 AM on March 18, 2004