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Q3 Demo Tonight?

by Jack Mathews, Nov 14, 1999 7:27pm PST
Related Topics – Demo, Quake 3 Arena, John Carmack

Looking at the ol' .plan files revealed another update from John Carmack with the news that the demo release is imminent. He also has a worklog in there, but nothing earth-shattering in it...

The demo test is built. It should go up in a couple hours if nothing explodes. Mac and linux builds won't be out tonight.
The ever present Blue noticed that Graeme made a similar update. Good thing Steve's gone for four hours, guess I'll do the mirrors if it comes out.
Quake 3 Arena demo test should be out tonight. Watch the skies!
update Jack - I'll just update this story to keep all the comments in one place :-) Graeme made another update clarifying the term "demo test"
Just so we’re all sure. This isn’t the general demo. If all goes well we’ll upload the general demo in a few days. The demo contains four maps (q3dm1, q3dm7 (q3test1), q3dm17 (q3test2) & q3tourney2 (q3tourney) and six characters (Sarge, Visor, Major, Grunt, Daemia, & Stripe). Bots are in there on five difficulty settings (from “I can win!” to “nightmare!”).
This seems to mean that this demo is a pre-demo demo :) Actually, it's probably more along the lines of a test just to shack out any really big bugs that might be in the game. Christian Antkow also made an update saying that the update will be about 52.1 megs.


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    k = kilobyte = 1024 bytes
    M = Megabyte = 1024 x 1024 bytes = 1048576 bytes

    The only people that say that 1 Megabyte = 1,000,000 bytes are the hard drive manufactures (and floppies). You have been lied to so that they can make it sound like they are selling you more memory.

    Try this: Put a floppy (1.44Megs) into you computer (windows based
    o.s.). Right click on propertys. Here\'s what you see:

    Capacity: 1,457,664 bytes 1.38MB

    Now lets do the math.

    1457664 / 1024 = 1423.5 KB
    1423 / 1024 = 1.38 MB
    M = Megabyte = 1024 x 1024 bytes = 1048576 bytes

    This is not an error. As I have said, the hard drive manufacturers are lying.
    Nov 14, 1999 11:37pm PST