quake/articles/1996/art-273
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From: "Joe E. Powell"
Newsgroups: rec.games.computer.quake.announce
Subject: ANNOUNCE: Quake Spy 2.4
Date: 29 Jul 1996 10:17:12 +0100
Organization: NAVCOMTELSTA, Pensacola, FL
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Quake Spy 2.4 has been released!
ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/idgames2/newstuff/qspy24is.zip (installShield
version - complete).
ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/idgames2/newstuff/qspy24sa.zip (Just the program)
ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/idgames2/newstuff/qspy24rt.zip (Run time libraries
MFC42.DLL and MSVCRT.DLL)
(^^ new) (^^ new)
New features in v2.4:
Added a Quake Spy property page with an option to terminate QSpy
after launching Quake.
Rewrote the Refresh button list traversal code.
The filter options are reapplied to the list upon exiting the
property page.
Added buttons and code to save/load list of servers.
Added buttons and code to allow manual addition/deletion of servers.
Rewrote portions of code to allow easy addition/deletion of servers.
Added connection scripts option when launching Quake.
Added Quake property page options to:
Include connection scripts aliases
Allow an automatic disconnect and display a top 10 list
of servers.
Specify which character to bind the above to.
Quake Spy has these features:
* Gets a list of active Quake servers from the following sites:
1. Finger Servers@ns.stomped.com
2. http://citrix.progress.com/servers.html
* Manually add and delete Quake servers to the list.
* Save and reload the Quake server list.
* Pings these sites a configurable numbers of times.
* Queries these sites for server name, map name, current and max
players.
* Displays results in a list box in the following format:
Average ping in ms, number of times the pings timed out, the IP
address of the server, the name of the server, the name of the map
currently being run by the server, the current number of players on
the server and the maximum allowed players on the server.
* Launch Quake by double clicking on a server in the listbox.
* Refresh the server information of selected servers.
* Configurable options:
. Quake Spy either suspends its operations after Quake launches and
resumes once Quake terminates or it terminates after successfully
launching Quake (configurable option).
. Where to get active Quake server list information
. There are four filter settings you can use to limit the output of
the server information gathering process:
1. Display servers that return the Quake query request.
2. Display servers that are not full of players.
3. Display servers whose ping requests timed out less than
the specified amount.
4. Display servers whose average ping time is less than the
specified time.
. Where Quake is located on your system and what command line
options to pass to Quake when you launch it.
. Include connection scripts aliases:
. qlist: displays a list of the top 10 servers Quake Spy
found.
. s<#>: connect to the specified server in the qlist alias.
. Allow an automatic disconnect and display a top 10 list
of servers while in Quake and specify which character to
bind this to.
. How many times to ping a Quake server.
. How long to wait for a response to this ping.
. How long to wait for a response from the query for info.
Quake Spy is freeware...with the following provisions:
If you use Quake Spy, send us an email. Do you like Quake Spy? Do
you have any suggestions on how to improve it? We want to get a feel
for what you guys think/want.
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Joe Powell, powelljo@jaxmail.navy.mil
Tim Cook, cookti@jaxmail.navy.mil.