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- Quake Spy 2.6
-
- The birth of Quake Spy:
-
- This program was born out of a desire to quickly find a playable
- Quake server. I must have spent a week looking at the finger output
- from Servers@ns.stomped.com and then manually pinging those IP
- addresses looking for a server with a decent response time. While
- this accomplished my initial goal, it was hardly an acceptable
- solution. Hence, the birth of Quake Spy!
-
- 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
- 3. http://www.pipo.com/quake/quake.html
- 4. Finger vfuks@monmouth.com
- (try Deicide's Quake Servers at http://www.monmouth.com/~vfuks)
- 5. User defined finger source
- 6. User defined http source
- 7. User defined http source
- 8. User defined http source
-
- Quake Spy is able to parse any finger or web page for IP addresses.
- Just fill in the user defined areas and roll your on 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.
-
- Be SURE to tell QSpy where Quake is by using the Configure button
- and selecting the Quake Page.
-
- (Don't do this under NT unless you have a native NT port of Quake.
- Quake won't like it.)
-
- * Manually add and delete Quake servers to the list.
-
- * Save and reload the Quake server list. This info is saved to a
- file named QSpy.dat in your Quake directory.
-
- * Refresh the server information of selected servers.
-
- * Resize the Quake Spy window to suit your preference.
-
- * 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).
-
- . Whether or not to auto-save the Quake Spy server list upon leaving
- Quake Spy.
-
- . Whether to ping servers after loading data.
-
- . Whether to auto-load the (saved) server list upon program startup.
-
- . Whether to auto-start the update process upon program startup.
-
- . Where to get active Quake server list information
-
- . There are five 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.
- 5. Display servers whose map name starts with the specified
- characters (e.g., 'dm' for servers only playing deathmatch
- levels).
-
- . 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.
-
- Something to be aware of: If you do this and later decide
- you don't want this binding, you'll have to go and remove
- the bind command from the config.cfg file in the id1
- directory. A later version of Quake Spy will do this for
- you.
-
- . 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.
-
- This release has been tested and (to the best of my knowledge) will only
- work with Windows 95/NT3.51/NT4.0.
-
- Quake Spy makes use of MFC42.DLL and MSVCRT.DLL. If you downloaded the stand
- alone verion of Quake Spy and you do not have these files in your SYSTEM
- directory, then you should get QSPYRT24.ZIP from the same place you got this
- file. If it's not included there, you can request a copy from us, and we'll
- be glad to mail it to you.
-
- We are also distributing Quake Spy in an installShield package. If you
- download this package, you don't need the support files. Everything is
- included in this package.
-
- 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.
-
- If you feel compelled to show us how much you appreciate Quake Spy,
- we will kindly accept monetary donations of any amount ;-)
-
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Joe Powell, jep@sclsis.navy.mil (preferred) or powelljo@jaxmail.navy.mil
- Tim Cook, cookti@jaxmail.navy.mil.
-
- INFO/COMMENTS WANTED
-
- Wait for id to release specs on Quake protocol so we can query a
- Quake server for player names and frag counts, etc.
- (If anyone already knows the query strings for this, TELL ME!)
- Option to keep DNS names on list or do reverse DNS (SLOW!)?
- Convert listbox to a listctrl report view?
- Anyone want a toolbar type interface?
- More options to Quake property page (-winmem, -winlock, -nojoy, etc)?
-
- TODO
-
- Option to differentiate registered servers from shareware
- (suggested).
- In qlist alias, indicate which server was launched (suggested).
- Ability to send server list to printer/clipboard (suggested).
- Remember Quake Spy window size.
- Remove the disconnect key binding command from the config.cfg file
- when that option is deselected or changed.
- Actually PLAY Quake instead of programming for it!
-
- REVISION HISTORY
-
- v2.6 8/6/96
- Added filter option for map name.
- Added option to auto-load server list upon program start.
- Added option to auto-start update upon program start.
- Added 3 user defined http spots and 1 user defined finger spot
- to the sources property page.
- Added vfuks@monmouth.com finger to Sources property page.
- Added Pipo's web page to Sources property page.
- Wrote a generic routine to parse out IP addresses from any page
- (suggested).
-
- v2.5 8/2/96
- Return focus to last selected item after a refresh (suggested).
- Added Quake Spy option to autosave server list upon leaving QSpy.
- Added Quake Spy option to ping/not ping servers after loading data.
- Implemented non-blocking socket reads throughout the program.
- (Press Stop immediately after starting an update and you'll
- see what I mean.)
- Improved display speed on delete and refresh functions.
- Allowed the Quake Spy window to be resized and maximized.
-
- v2.4 7/25/96
- 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.
-
- v2.3 07/20/96
- Added button to refresh (re-ping/re-query) selected servers.
- (updated information is not checked against the filter criteria)
- Added the ability to stop the server information retrieval process.
- Added the ability to stop the server refresh process.
-
- v2.2 07/17/96
- Added some more status messages to indicate QSpy is doing something.
- Added a proper icon to the application :-)
- Fixed: If the close button was pressed during the pinging process,
- the application window closed, but the process continued to
- run.
- Fixed: The property page settings were never initialized unless the
- property page was activated.
-
- v2.1 07/15/96
- Fixed pointer bug (for real) this time (hey, it was late).
- Added a property page accessed through the Configure button.
- Added ][ronMan's server web page to the Sources property page.
- Added Filtering options to the property page and implemented them.
- Added Quake property page to allow definition of command line and
- working directory.
- Added ability to launch Quake by double clicking a list item.
- Added a Ping property page to allow number of pings and timeout
- values to be adjusted.
-
- v2.01 07/13/96
- Fixed stupid pointer bug that happened when the process was restarted.
-
- v2.0 07/12/96
- Converted application to a 32-bit Win95/NT application.
- Filter out duplicates in the Stomped output.
- Display results sorted by ping time.
-
- v1.0 07/11/96
- Initial Public Release as a Console Application.
-
- LEGAL DISCLAIMER
-
- We're not responsible for anything that happens to your system while
- Quake Spy is running. Period! Hey, what do you expect for free?
-