Dr. Lex' Marathon Page

These pages are devoted to the coolest series of Mac games ever created: The Marathon Trilogy, from Bungie SoftWare.

If you are a VidMaster already, you'll enjoy the Marathon Infinity maps (not found on the Trilogy CD—and that's not because they're bad, they were created after its release!) If you aren't, you have the chance to become one by reading the VidMaster Techniques!
Also featuring: QTVR panoramas from Marathon maps, a special version of the Marathon 1 music, tips & tricks for Forge & Anvil and some links.

• Why is Marathon such a great game?
  This text compares Marathon to six ‘contemporary’ 3D games. And it explains why I like the game so much…
• Maps
  • Root Square II
  • WITE
  • “K.U.Leuven Campus” map
  • Jingle Bobs!
  • Heptapus
  • Artificial Intelligence
• Scenario
  I had bold plans for my own total Marathon conversion, with a fully finished story and outline, but it never got far. Someone truly motivated might still be able to make something from it, if I could manage to recover the files…
• VidMaster Techniques
  Including some things the Bungie guys themselves didn't know!
• Forge & Anvil Tips & Tricks
  For map-makers.
• QTVR Panoramas
  This links to my QTVR page, which includes panoramas created with screenshots from self-made Marathon maps.
• How to make a QTVR panorama from a Marathon Map
  … and this exlains how to make such panoramas yourself.
• Marathon Music QT 3&4 edition
  A rearrangement of the original M1 music for use with QuickTime 3 or 4.
• It doesn't get any better than this!
  You can now simply download the entire Marathon trilogy for free, legally! Many thanks to Bungie for releasing these. To run these games on modern operating systems, you can use the Aleph One project. To run Marathon 1, you can use the converted map files by Raul Bonilla (see the trilogyrelease page).
• Marathon Links
  Lots of these are submitted by “third parties,” and given the age of Marathon and this whole page, most of these links will be dead. I don't have time myself to check all this stuff regularly, so you can report a dead link yourself if you wish. But, maybe it makes more sense to preserve this list so you can look up the URLs in the Internet Archive…

  10/5 Mapmakers + Orbital Arm Aleph One Manual Aleph One SourceForge page Anti-Fun League BlackLight Bungie SoftWare Bungie.org/Marathon Archives Bungie.org Chisel World - The bits that Forge forgot Excalibur: Morgana's Revenge Forge House Hi-Def Scenery Infinity, LTD Jim & David's Marathon Page Lh'owon Ar'kives Loren Petrich's Marathon World Los Disneys Marathon Archives @ Bungie.org Marathon Art Marathon Atlantis Marathon Central Marathon Hyperarchive Northwest Marathon Infinity Maps & Physics Models Marathon Open Source Project

  Marathon Shapes Guide Marathon Story Forums Marathon Story Page Marathon Trilogy Story and Background Marathon Wallpapers Marathon: EVIL Marathon: Rubicon Marnix' Tempus Irae Maps MMMG Page 2401 Pfhorums Project Orphanage Psyko Dreams Inc. Scott's Page - Marathon 2 Maps Shebobs Texture Factory Simplici7y SPNKRGHOL Steve's Page Svenneves Marathon Infinity Page Tempus Irae The 10/5 Mapmakers The Battle Cat's Litterbox The Big House Traxus

  If you know other Marathon-related sites or new URLs of moved sites, feel free to submit them here! If you want to report a dead link, type “DEAD” in the URL box and copy the link's name in the name box.
  Before you can submit something, you will have to prove that you're human and know something about Marathon. Enter the name of the fruit that's also the company name of the computers Marathon was first released on: (Hint: it's a five-letter word.)

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