I always check a watch the demos :) they are great... petty i suck in speed :| 

just watched the DofG movie it was very funny, to watch you're chasing that spider 

good initiative Stubgaard

Stubby maybe SDA should think about changing to zip packing of demos. Dzip issues were discussed here a lot (someone provide the link please)


btw. everyone should watch my EH demo on my hdn map even if it was beaten long time ago :P
http://speeddemosarchive.com/quake/demos/EH/hdn_242.dz 

 

nice idea; I think it will help raise awareness to cross-post news like this. One suggestion: you don't need to fully replicate all the links, it would probably suffice to list a bullet-point summary and then provide a link to the SDA news post/page (and maybe the "all demos download" link too.) LvL does this, seems to work well, for example: http://www.celephais.net/board/view_thread.php?id=60270 

I actually check SDA every now and then, but I didn't check religiously to see if anybody has done any runs on my maps or whatever, so having news also posted here will be handy... and also make this place feel a little livelier too :) 

Ankh: Unfortunately I think it's too much work to zip all the demos on SDA as we're up to 10368 in total by now. I don't know if someone could write some sort of script to automate the process or something, but there's also the issue of filesize though it's not that big a deal anymore I guess, but 10368 demos certainly adds up.

metlslime: You're right, bullet-point summary will be sufficient :-)

Since this board is mostly about mapping, I'll list the mapname and the mapper in bold letters.

So here goes:

e4m6 - The Pain Maze by Sandy Petersen
- Easy 100% in 1:32
- 2 player Easy 100% in 1:04

e3m2 - Vaults of Zin by American McGee
- 2 player Nightmare 100% in 0:53

perssp2 - Return To Dust by Chris 'Fern' Ploran
- Easy Run in 0:27

terra1 - Schumann Resonance by Christian 'czg' Grawert
- 2 player Easy Run in 0:07
- 2 player Easy 100% in 0:55
- 2 player Nightmare Run in 0:07
- 2 player Nightmare 100% in 0:55

hotel - Welcome to Hotel Kique-Asse by Andrew Turner
- 2 player Easy Run in 0:21
- 2 player Easy 100% in 0:24

scream - Star Scream by Dustin 'Tronyn' Geeraert
- 2 player Easy Run in 0:12
- 2 player Easy Run in 0:12

sm28 - Structured Chaos by John 'DaMaul' McCann
- 2 player Easy Run in 0:34
- 2 player Nightmare Run in 0:36

msacro - Manslay's Acrobatics by Dmitry 'Manslay' Dementjev
- 2 player Easy 100% in 0:37
- 2 player Nightmare Run in 0:12

royalwar - the Royal Warriors by Scott McNutt
- 2 player Easy Run in 0:26
- 2 player Nightmare 100% in 0:59

tchak - The Tomb of Chak Toh Ich'ak by Rui 'Trinca' Neto
- 2 player Easy Run in 0:12

SDA:
http://speeddemosarchive.com/quake

All DEMOS DOWNLOAD:
http://speeddemosarchive.com/quake/sda_13_apr_2009.dz

I wasn't quite sure wether to list the runner of the demos or not, I chose not to since it took up a lot of space, but if someone wants them listed I can easily do that. 

The SDA needs to modernize.

Most people, including myself, simply aren't willing to download a Quake demo and then muck around downloading the .bsp just to watch a speed run.

Plus, the .dz format while nice and all is only supported by JoeQuake and Qrack. I don't really like having to load up an engine I don't normally use to watch a demo.

And I don't want to mess around with the dzip utilities to use a different engine.

So what is the problem here?

Are the speedruns worth watching?

Yes

Is it way too inconvenient and archaic?

Yes

Will most people bother downloading even AVI videos?

No

Answer

All the time and effort to make a speed run surely justifies taking a few extra minutes to convert the demo to AVI and uploading them to YouTube.

(If this actually happens, please no funky JoeQuake HUD or replacement textures .. make it look like normal Quake).