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The first Team Fortress was written as an add-on patch for Quake and released as freeware on 24 August 1996. The first TF for QuakeWorld, called version 2.0, was released on 22 December 1996. After the success of TF, Walker, Cook and Caughley created TeamFortress Software to create Team Fortress 2 as a new commercial mod for Quake II. Instead, TeamFortress Software merged with Valve and created Team Fortress Classic and worked on Team Fortress 2.
The last version of Team Fortress for QuakeWorld was 2.9, released on 20 October 19981998 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar), and was designated the International Year of the Ocean''. Events January January 1998 A massive ice storm, caused by El Nino, strikes New England, southern Ontario and Quebec, resulting.
Recenty the developers of Team Fortress gave permission to another Australian to continue their work and improve the original Team Fortress. The result of this is OzTF which contains many updates and bugfixes.