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Vanilla Quake

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Vanilla Quake

The term Vanilla Quake refers to the game of Quake as shipped and subsequently patched by iD Software. Specifically pak0.pak and pak1.pak.

In regards to a level it means that it adheres to the original limitations of Quake levels and that it would run without problems in the original Quake game engine.