but someone let me know if this is actually warez or something. I don't know if WC was commercial. 

even if it was commercial, there wouldn't be a way to purchase it now anyway. 

i have no idea if this is different to what i've been using for the past ~9 years but i'll give it a whirl anyway, cheers 

I've honestly no idea whether Valve would be happy about this or whether it might draw unwanted attention. Technically it could be called abandonware, but technically it's still copyrighted. 

The post was made in 2007. Who knows if they'd take offense at an archaic version of their Hammer editor under a different name being leaked.

Unless their legal department is really bored and overpaid I doubt its a problem.

WC 1.6a was freeware, you had to buy 1.6, this version - but that was maybe ten years ago. 

More than 10 years, but I'm too lazy to check. 

Between 1.6 and the version distributed with QuakeAdaptor, in terms of quake mapping? 

The prefab library allows you to save groups of objects seperately to reuse them.

In general 1.6 has much fewer bugs, like wiping the key fields of an entity.

It also doesn't need converted textures, it just loads the wad directly.

Downside is, the texture lock is only semi-functional - flipping and rotating don't really work. 

Native support for Quake without any hackery is a good enough reason too. 

 

Oh shit. 

one of these days I have to try this out... 

The Quakeadapter version has enanced 3D acceleration compared to 1.6 / a / b

It also has a fully functional texture lock feature. In 1.6, as mentioned above, the texture lock would not work on brushes rotated to strange angles (i.e. anything which isn't devisable by 90)

The downside is that it requires all Quake 1 .wads to be converted to hlwads.