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1. Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 28-Sep-2023 23:55:01 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

   In Quake console command "showturtle 1" will show a little turtle icon in the top left corner of the screen when frame rate drops below 10 fps.

   • Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 28-Sep-2023 23:55:00 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

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     The turtle icon is present in Quake 2's PAK0.PAK file, this time in PCX format. The game has a scr_showturtle CVAR that defaults to 0. But there's no source code associated with it other than checking its value. Retail release (original 3.05 or latest 3.21) doesn't draw a turtle. 🤷♂️

   • Gorgeous na Shock! (indigoparadox@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 28-Sep-2023 23:55:00 UTC Gorgeous na Shock!

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     @dosnostalgic I caught the last post of this first and thought it was about a LOGO parser hidden in Quake and got excited for a moment.

   • Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 28-Sep-2023 23:55:01 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

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     It was actually a part of QTest where it's impossible to turn off.

   • Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 29-Sep-2023 10:07:25 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

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     • Bristle

     @bristle Huh. I've never noticed that till now.

   • Bristle (bristle@furry.engineer)'s status on Friday, 29-Sep-2023 10:07:32 UTC Bristle

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     @dosnostalgic Funny that this HUD font is in QTest but then later reappears in Quake 3 Arena

   • JP (jplebreton@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 29-Sep-2023 12:38:58 UTC JP

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     @dosnostalgic iirc i repurposed this cvar for my Quake + NIN Ghosts I-IV mod: https://jp.itch.io/quake-ghosts (for checking if the "no monsters" functionality is enabled)