How can I play Quake on OS X 10.7 or above?
Yes there is actually a way to play Quake but you'll need the CD contents of the original Quake (or play a shareware version).
Personally I have only been able to get this to work using GLQuake/Quake provided by that link.
REQUIREMENTS
Intel
Mac OS X 10.6 or later
Quake 1 (shareware or retail version).
You can download shareware quake By ID Software (6.7 MB) here. (which is free)
Steps to install:
- install the quake client from here
- download the shareware version of quake here
- unzip the .sit file (to a known area)
- then open up glquake
- it will ask you to locate the ID1 folder, find it (it should have PAK0.PAK in it).
- It will load if correctly found ID1 folder is selected
- Press the green play button
- Have fun playing old school quake!
Once you have the original disk and its files, you can choose from a number of modern, maintained Quake clients. From that list, the Mac-native ones are ProQuake+, ProQuake v3.5 (GL), Fitzquake SDL, and Darkplaces.
That page also provides a link to the original, ancient GLQuake, but it's neither modern nor maintained. It'll do the job, but the others are all improvements on GLQuake and will probably serve you better.