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- Quake Watch v0.1
- ⌐ John Robinson 1996
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- Quake Watch is a utility that I wrote to keep tabs on the various quake servers across the country. I wanted
- a dynamic utility that constantly polled the various servers and let me know which servers where up and
- how many players where playing at the time the server was polled.
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- Quake Watch is also a quake launch utility. If you see a server that looks promising, select it from the list
- and click on the quake icon located on the toolbar to launch quake.
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- This utility only works with TCP/IP-based quake servers as my interest is primarily playing quake over the
- Internet.
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- Features
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- Dynamically updates the status of various quake servers.
- Allows you to launch quake and automatically attempt to connect to a selected server.
- Serves as a simple quake server directory.
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- Bugs and Known Limitations
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- This is a 16-bit Windows app. (Not really a bug. But needs to be fixed.)
- If you attempt to specify qlaunch directly in the quake command line preferences. Quake will not be
- able to locate the quake server. You must run qlaunch indirectly via a batch file (Such as q95.bat).
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- Future Plans
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- 32-Bit version (MultiThreaded).
- AutoLaunch when a slot on a selected server becomes available.
- Various sorting and filtering options.
- Display response time.
- Query server to display players and fragcounts.
- Obtain list of servers via finger from one of the reference sites (Stomped or Aftershock).
- Support for IPX based servers.
- Automatically resume polling after quake terminates.
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- Configuring Quake Watch for use with Quake
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- In order to launch quake from within Quake Watch you must configure Quake Watch. Please select the
- Preferences item from the File menu and complete the information found there.
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- Standard Disclaimer
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- I, John Robinson, make no warranties, either express or implied regarding the enclosed software package,
- itÆs merchantability or its fitness for any particular purpose.
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