cure's demoplay

Index

  1 Description
  2 Installation
  3 Usage
  4 Inspiration
  5 To-do List
  6 History
  7 Applications Used
  8 Additional Credits
  9 Disclaimer/Trademarks/Permissions/Copyright

1 Description

Simple straightforward yet highly customizable Windows demo player for id Software games, written as two simple batch files and a registry file. It allows demo playing by double-clicking a demo from the Explorer shell. Passing command line options is possible and it has support for the following games and all their demo formats listed below. It can run Q1 or Q2 demos from any mod and Q3 demos from various mods.

Windows Explorer overview (note the optional mod launch selection for Q3 demos):

2 Installation

A few steps:

• Unzip the package into the 'C:\Program Files' dir, maintaining directory structure. Files will be located in the 'C:\Program Files\cure_demoplay' dir (mandatory to work properly).
• Double-click 'install.reg' to install shell extensions.
• Edit 'setup.bat' (right-click it and open it with notepad) and change the paths and command lines for your games. Note: Paths must be entered _without_ any quotes or a trailing backslash. If you use any demo control configs, append it to the command line as "+exec democonfig.cfg" (without the quotes).
• If you want to play old .dm3 and .dm_48 Q3 demos, you'll need a 1.27 Q3 executable. You can download it here, unzip it into your Q3 dir with the filename quake3_127h.exe provided, so it sits alongside the 1.32 quake3.exe executable.

3 Usage

Double-click a demo file, it will run Q1 or Q2 demos from any mod!

For Q3: Double-click a demo file or right-click the file and select the applicable mod for that demo. This method is needed since Q3 doesn't distinguish demos when they're loaded, it just plays the demo without switching to the appropriate mod, unlike Q1 and Q2. You'll notice OSP is listed as default (boldly printed in the picture above). If you want to change this, then open 'install.reg' and perform a find and replace for all @="play_osp" instances and replace it with one of the strings below. Save the file and merge it again.

Of course it's possible to add more Q3 mods in install.reg, feel free to do so if you need any.

4 Inspiration

The lack of any decent lightweight demo player.

5 To-do List

• Expand Doom 3 support if needed.
• Create a Linux (command line) version.

6 History

2004-10-31

• Updated documentation to explicitly state it can run Q1 and Q2 demos from any mod.
• Usage of %programfiles% variable in demoplay.bat.

2004-10-30

• Initial release.

7 Applications Used

• IDM Computer Solutions UltraEdit v10.20c
  http://www.ultraedit.com
• WinZip Computing WinZip v9.0 SR-1
  http://www.winzip.com

8 Additional Credits

• id Software
  http://www.idsoftware.com
  ftp://ftp.idsoftware.com
• Alan 'Strider' Kivlin for the Quake 3 Demo Converter
  

9 Disclaimer/Trademarks/Permissions/Copyright

The author does not take any responsibility for possible damage caused by this package. Use it on your own risk.

All trademarks and servicemarks used in this work are acknowledged and are the property of their rightful owners.

This work is copyrighted pseudonymously by the author under all applicable laws. The author reserves all rights to this work. The copyright statement for this work is "Copyright (C) 2004 Cure4Pain, All Rights Reserved".

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