HowTo Play Old QuakeWorld Demos
As this BitTorrent of old TeeGee matches and old skool league matches, is doing the rounds. I thought it best to put up some instructions on how to view the demos.
Keep in mind that these demos truly are old! The players, and the camera men are sitting on modems, so frames-per-second (or tics) start off pretty low. As the demos get more recent, you can really see the shift in netcode, and connectivity.
First off, you’re going to need a recent QuakeWorld client. ezQuake seems to do the trick. Next up, you need Qizmo. Qizmo is a QuakeWorld proxy, and is compatible with old skool QuakeWorld demos. I found FTEQW was able to play some .dem files that ezQuake and Qizmo could not.
Set-up ezQuake how you like it. ezQuake doesn’t seem to save its configuration automatically, so you have to bring down the console [~], and issue a ‘cfg_save myconfig’. Then when you start-up ezQuake, append ‘+cfg_load myconfig’ to the command line parameters.
Qizmo set-up is piss-easy. Simply edit the configuration file, and point it at your actual QuakeWorld directory.
Unzip, your .qwd files into your qw/ data directory, and execute Qizmo. Then execute ezQuake, and connect to Qizmo with a ‘/connect 127.0.0.1′. To navigate through Qizmo’s menu, you’ll also need to issue the command ‘.menu bind’
Job done, she’s good-to-go.
I just finished watching the TeeGee vs. Dark Preachers fiasco. I laughed so hard, I think a little bit of wee came out…
