Q3Plug / News: Recent posts

I've been getting a lot of reports telling me that after installing the above mentioned update, Q3Plug won't work anymore.

According to a Knowledge Base article from Microsoft, they have disabled the ActiveX control that is responsible for loading and displaying Netscape plug-ins like Q3Plug. This control is called plugin.ocx. It was disabled for "security reasons", about which MS does not give more details.... read more

If you want to contribute to the development of Q3Plug, please contact me at my email address. Programmers who want to write query modules for additional games or want to help with porting Q3Plug to C++ are welcome to join. Of course, if you want to contribute in some other way, you are welcome as well!

Thanks for listening,
Markus

I have released Q3Plug 1.3b1 today, featuring support for Medal of Honor and Jedi Knight 2 as well as some bug fixes.

Just a small note to all those who can't wait to query Medal of Honor servers: it is possible to query MOH servers with the current version of Q3Plug. This is just a temporary solution, until I come up with real support for MOH.

MOHAA uses the query protocol from Unreal Tournament, so you have to set Q3Plug to "game=UT". In addition, MOHAA is listening on a dedicated "query port", usually 12300. For reasons too long to explain here, you have to substract 1 from that query port and give Q3Plug that port.... read more

I have released version 1.2 of Q3Plug. New features include support for Tribes, Tribes 2, and Quakeworld as well as customizable colors for text and background.

Head over to http://nem3d.net/q3plug for more information and download links.

To re-enable Q3Plug for Internet Explorer 5.5 Service Pack 2 and Internet Explorer 6 download and open the following file:

http://members.liwest.at/mb/q3plug/q3plug_fix_IE55SP2_IE6.reg

(This works as long as you have the plugin.ocx file which comes with IE 5.5 SP2 and IE 6)

The Zip package at http://members.liwest.at/mb/q3plug/npq3plug.zip has also been updated.

There is a way to make these 2 browsers compatible with Netscape-style plug-ins. You can find a description of how to do that here:

http://members.aol.com/axcel216/newtip21.htm#MI5S6F

Thanks go to Rick Buser for sending me this hint!

I have received many emails about problems with IE 6. It seems, that IE 6 is not compatible with the plug-in. I will look into this soon.

Support for Tribes 1 is nearly done. I will start working on support for Tribes 2 in the next days. Both games will probably be supported in the next version which is scheduled for the next weeks.

I do not own copies of neither Tribes nor Tribes 2. Hence it is not quite easy to implement support for these games. If someone has any information about the structure of Tribes 2 query packets (VER5), please let me know. That would save me a lot of work. In addition, I do not know the command line for connecting directly to the server (e.g. for Quake 3: quake3.exe +connect 123.123.123.123:27960).

I have released the source code of Q3Plug. Please feel free to contribute but make sure you share any improvements here.