When playing QuakeWorld, you’ll notice that all those frag gods have cool names to boot, and wonder how do they get those funky coloured letters? Well, it’s simple enough really, and you too can have one of these names by using your standard DOS editor (it’s with Windows 95/98 too).

I will go through the steps involved:

1. Run a MS-DOS prompt window (for example, by typing COMMAND in the Run section of the Windows 95/98 Start menu, or by clicking on the icon in the Programs menu). If you don’t know what I am on about at this stage, maybe you should think again about doing this…
2. Change to your main Quake directory (that is, CD C:QUAKE or wherever you have it installed).
3. Change into the ID1 subdirectory (type CD ID1).
4. Create a file called NAME.SCR (using the EDIT NAME.SCR command).
5. Basic enough so far? Okay! Now type the following into the file:
   name "GICloud-Warrior"
6. Hey, but where’s the funky letters, man? Well, due to some weird bug in certain versions of Quake, you have to precede your funky name with a name containing normal characters. So, you will effectively have two lines in the file, the first setting your name to one with normal characters, and the second containing the extra characters. Take a look at the image linked below which lists all the characters available for use in your name.
   [Click Here to See Extended Character List]
7. Now, to put one of the characters into the file, make sure NUM LOCK is turned on, hold down the ALT key while typing in a four-digit sequence such as 0199 on your numeric keypad to give you character number 199.
8. Keep on adding these cool characters - they will not appear in the file the same way as they will in QuakeWorld, normally appearing as a funny letter with an accent of some sort… You should now have two lines looking something like this.
   name "GICloud-Warrior"
name "ÇÉCloud-Warrior"
9. Save the file, and at the Quake console, type in "exec name.scr" or bind a key to do the same thing.