What happened? I've been playing quake 3 on and off since launch and ioquake3 has been the default launcher for at least a decade.

I've just built another desktop pc (half life alyx) after a few years exclusive on chromebooks.

Now I find that as far as I could search if I want to reinstall q3 with the latest engine I need to build it from github using instructions on a wiki page that I need WayBackMachine to read because it's been down long enough that even google cache doesn't have it.

The good thing that came out of this is that I found iodefengine. It also needs to be compiled but it's something I didn't know existed and defrag is more what I'm into these days..

Is IoQuake3 abandoned or are they really taking all this long to resume posting builds on their website?

https://ioquake3.org/get-it/

Keep away from the test builds for now, as the site says.

that's what prompted this post. did you see how long ago that was?

There is an installer at the link I posted. It seems only the test build server was compromised. As ever, run binaries at your risk.

File name is "ioquake3-1.36-3.1.x86.exe" for the windows version.

Check Q3e, started playing with it a few days ago and it seems superior.

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