Making marathon demos on Windows 7

2013-12-16 04:45:40 pm

Mandel, I think there's a bug in your demarathon thing. After playing the first level, the game crashes trying to load the second demo with the message "Demo message > MAX_MSGLEN". Sad

coolkid

2013-12-18 01:52:35 pm

That's unfortunate Sad

GinKo was kind enough to compile my marathon demos the old way so I decided to upload my current id1 ER record to youtube.

There are 4 new id1 records in the queue besides that one Wink

Radix

2013-12-18 04:33:35 pm

I'm addicted to games

Woohoo, I'll update soon!

Mandel

2013-12-30 02:25:26 am

Mumma

GinKo, can I find the uncompiled demo somewhere then so that I can take a look at what the issue may be?

GinKo

2014-01-01 07:17:36 am

Here it is. The original demo from Max and the output from Demarathon GUI 0.2. I've tested with other demos, so I don't think it's specific to this one. I have Joequake build 1329, but I also tested on some version of WinQuake.

Attachment:

all_1300.dz

Radix

2014-01-01 06:37:29 pm

I'm addicted to games

The update is posted - 14 demos total.

GinKo

2014-01-02 05:41:42 am

Awesome!

According to this, there was a 23 times increase in the number of demos this past year. Which means that, if we keep it up, by 2015 we'll have 13824 demos a year!

Seriously though, good to see the yearly update Smiley

Mandel

2014-01-02 04:27:50 pm

Mumma

Congratulations coolkid, well done. And good to see an update in 2014!

The pak from my prog seems to work well for me, even the one in your dz, GinKo. Haven't tried it in Joequake but DirectQ and lmpc don't complain at all. I'll have to try Joequake though. So, start works but e4m1 fails (all_1300)?

GinKo

2014-01-02 06:53:25 pm

Yeah, generally speaking, it crashes with the error "Demo message > MAX_MSGLEN" when it tries to load the next demo (like with coolkid's run if I play start.dem then it crashes when it tries to load e4m1.dem at the end of the demo). I'd imagine the command being added to play the next demo is different to the one added by the old demtool, perhaps it puts the whole path to a file when it shouldn't - I have no idea how any of it works, so it's just a wild guess.

Mandel

2014-01-03 07:36:01 am

Mumma

Allright, I found the issue (the block with playdemo needs to also have a disconnect message). Unfortunately I don't have the possibility to recompile the GUI version anymore Undecided

Best I can do is a command line tool. However, ideally all you need to do is drop your demo file on the exe icon and you should get your pak0.pak. I built the new binary with MinGW/MSYS.

Attachment:

demarathon.v0.4.zip

quadrazid

2014-01-12 06:59:11 pm

Svart Lyser Tronen

Heard the e3_241 took 10 minutes to make, quite impressive : >

coolkid

2014-03-08 07:37:04 am

Great demos Daniel :-)

ikk

2014-04-30 12:47:02 pm

PSN: MassDamageLT

can You upload more videos from Quake sections in 60 framerate or more as video files.
to websites like Google-drive or Mega?
(drive.google.com has download links and flash player).

Quake in 60Hz is soo good.