Sunday, November 14, 1999

Q3DemoTest Tonight! -- 9:26 pm CST, Update by A.T. Hun

Put your modem on full-scale Defcon 5 alert kids! The official Quake 3 Arena demo (more correctly, the demo-test) should be released tonight! Thus spake John Carmack:

The demo test is built. It should go up in a couple hours if nothing explodes.

Mac and linux builds won't be out tonight.

• clear SVF_BOT when exiting follow mode
• render temp memory
• new mac GL initialization code
• no zone memory use in music thread
• added check for trash past zone block
• explicitly flush journal data file after a write
• added FS_Flush

Graeme Devine added the following:

Quake 3 Arena demo test should be out tonight. Watch the skies!

Just so we're all sure. This isn't the general demo. If all goes well we'll upload the general demo in a few days.

The demo contains four maps (q3dm1, q3dm7 (q3test1), q3dm17 (q3test2) & q3tourney2 (q3tourney) and six characters (Sarge, Visor, Major, Grunt, Daemia, & Stripe). Bots are in there on five difficulty settings (from "I can win!" to "nightmare!").

Christian Antkow threw in his two cents too:

Ok. For the curious, it's looking like... 11/14/99 07:34p 52,123,258 q3DemoTEST.exe

We're doing final testing now. Sandpiper has been called and they are aware that we're planning on a release tonight. The file will simultaneously be made available on our FTP site (heh) and Sandpipers distribution network through www.quake3arena.com.

Ok Quake Community... Lets show Sandpiper what we're made of and really stress out their network =)

"soon"

This appears then to be a "test" of the demo, just to make sure there are no more show-stopping bugs. More details to follow!

News for 11/14/1999

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