QuakeEd 2.0 on archive.org

[Rhetorica]

If I'm not mistaken this flew under the radar for us at the old forums, despite the reverence we always show DoomEd:

https://archive.org/details/QuakeEd

An actual screenshot from Romero, with a jumpscare by OmniWeb 1.x in the dock:



The release is source-code-only, so you'll need to get some elbow grease ready before it'll work. The uploader says they tested it on emulated white hardware.

[jeffburg]

Man, I miss Omniweb so much. I loved that browser when I use it on OS X... before Safari existed. But this is really cool! I never knew about these editors... let alone that they existed for NeXT

[marvin]

This recent post https://rome.ro/quakes-player-speed-1 features the QuakeEd screenshot, and on the same site you can download the Quake map sources: https://rome.ro/resources

EDIT: Just found that we had John Romero's dump of QuakeEd (source) from 5/18/96 on the Peanuts archive NeXTSTEP/Games/action/

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  2232 Aug 24  1996 QuakeEd.README
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