HaloDemoMods officially down and out?

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HaloDemoMods officially down and out?

Post by jeepwrangler » Fri Aug 09, 2013 6:23 pm

I reinstalled OS X today and noticed that HaloDemoMods is down and out :(

I knew they were closing down, but didn't realize they were removing access to the site. Darn.

Since I still play the Halo Demo, I use a few tools (that I thought were lost for good until I did a bit of Googling):

HConsEnabler (for enabling console in Halo Demo for Mac):

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http://www.mediafire.com/download/mjd2yt2mjnf/HConsEnabler.zip
Halo Demo Editor (for editing gametypes):

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http://www.mediafire.com/?gwykwymdyji
Triforce:

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http://www.mediafire.com/download/7dap8nwyp5qb91e/Triforce.zip
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Re: HaloDemoMods officially down and out?

Post by nil » Fri Aug 09, 2013 7:22 pm

We've moved on from Halo Demo, and now play and mod HaloMD: http://macgamingmods.com/forum/viewtopi ... 40&t=18061

Halo Demo is dead*. HaloMD supersedes it.

Sparky put HDM offline. I'm unsure if it's going to be offline forever or if it's only temporarily.

(*no longer runs on new Macs.)
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Re: HaloDemoMods officially down and out?

Post by jeepwrangler » Fri Aug 09, 2013 7:24 pm

Thanks for the reply!

Halo Demo isn't dead... there's 3 or 4 full servers right now. More than half of Apple's OS X userbase uses Snow Leopard (people don't see a reason to upgrade to Lion/Mountain Lion, they're lackluster OS's).

But, I understand that Halo Demo is not the future... but it's nice to have easy access to the tools necessary to host fun games.

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Re: HaloDemoMods officially down and out?

Post by nil » Fri Aug 09, 2013 7:32 pm

jeepwrangler wrote:Thanks for the reply!

Halo Demo isn't dead... there's 3 or 4 full servers right now. More than half of Apple's OS X userbase uses Snow Leopard (people don't see a reason to upgrade to Lion/Mountain Lion, they're lackluster OS's).
Adium's stats say there's 26% of users on SL. While not too small of a percentage, certainly no where near a half. 40% are on 10.8, and likely most of MD's user base are on machines > SL. HaloMD is much better for various other reasons. I suggest trying it and telling people about it as well ;).

We do have an archive of some of HDM's files, including Triforce, somewhere but I can't remember where they are.

Glad to see some of my older tools (HConsEnabler, HDemoEditor) are still useful to people.
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Re: HaloDemoMods officially down and out?

Post by rEsTnPeAcEz » Sat Aug 10, 2013 6:21 am

I wasn't able to use HConsEnabler, so I used The Cheat to manually to enable console. So The Cheat can also be useful. Even for HaloMD. Well for making cheats.

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Re: HaloDemoMods officially down and out?

Post by jeepwrangler » Sat Aug 10, 2013 9:31 am

nil wrote:
jeepwrangler wrote:Thanks for the reply!

Halo Demo isn't dead... there's 3 or 4 full servers right now. More than half of Apple's OS X userbase uses Snow Leopard (people don't see a reason to upgrade to Lion/Mountain Lion, they're lackluster OS's).
Adium's stats say there's 26% of users on SL. While not too small of a percentage, certainly no where near a half. 40% are on 10.8, and likely most of MD's user base are on machines > SL. HaloMD is much better for various other reasons. I suggest trying it and telling people about it as well ;).

We do have an archive of some of HDM's files, including Triforce, somewhere but I can't remember where they are.

Glad to see some of my older tools (HConsEnabler, HDemoEditor) are still useful to people.
Oops, I meant share of OS X Snow Leopard and below.

HaloMD is definitely the future... I'll check it out! Is it relatively bug free now?

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Re: HaloDemoMods officially down and out?

Post by jeepwrangler » Sat Aug 10, 2013 9:32 am

rEsTnPeAcEz wrote:I wasn't able to use HConsEnabler, so I used The Cheat to manually to enable console. So The Cheat can also be useful. Even for HaloMD. Well for making cheats.
Where can I get access to tools like the Cheat?

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Re: HaloDemoMods officially down and out?

Post by nil » Sat Aug 10, 2013 11:16 am

The Cheat is completely out of date, doesn't even work correctly anymore. Better more up to date alternative is bit slicer (use google, they aren't halo specific tools).

@percentage: there are much less 10.5 users than 10.7 users. anything below 10.5 is too small user base. Guess how the curve pans out.. (Aka "and below" hardly counts in).

Stable enough I'd say. MD does run on 10.5+ intel.

Someone here should have a link to archive of tools. Otherwise try searching around the forums. Any old app that begins with H* is likely mine (should have a working link).
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Re: HaloDemoMods officially down and out?

Post by Monoman » Sat Aug 10, 2013 3:59 pm

I still have the archive we used for HaloMD.net. I'm not sure if Modzy keep them on there.
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Re: HaloDemoMods officially down and out?

Post by Modzy » Sat Aug 10, 2013 4:24 pm

Here's all the maps we saved: http://www.halomd.net/demo/

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Re: HaloDemoMods officially down and out?

Post by Sparky » Sun Aug 11, 2013 7:46 pm

I'll send news when whatever I'm doing is ready for you to know about.
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Re: HaloDemoMods officially down and out?

Post by Dead Site » Mon Aug 26, 2013 4:55 pm

Modzy wrote:Here's all the maps we saved: http://www.halomd.net/demo/
Hah, sweet! My Archer Gulch request and one of my only two mods HealthSounds are there
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Re: HaloDemoMods officially down and out?

Post by zªCh » Fri Sep 13, 2013 1:07 pm

*tilts head down*
so i dont play all summer and this is what i missed....i already checked the md page....the saved page is missing a lot of mods...and it seems i have to make a new hmd login



also i can not run the application for haloMD of my mac....(found out a while ago but never said anything)
i feel silly still trying to finish working on things....thinking of things i need to change in mods that were posted
im just going to stop my rambling now..
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I remember thinking that halo would be the one thing that would never update past my mac.....then came HaloMD
now i have 3 versions of combat evolved on my mac...weird stuff.. now if only they made a ppc mac version of custom edition

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Re: HaloDemoMods officially down and out?

Post by jeepwrangler » Sat Jul 26, 2014 2:47 pm

Halo Demo server masterlist is unresponsive. I think GameSpy finally pulled the plug.

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Re: HaloDemoMods officially down and out?

Post by Modzy » Sat Jul 26, 2014 9:54 pm

jeepwrangler wrote:Halo Demo server masterlist is unresponsive. I think GameSpy finally pulled the plug.
Use HaloMD: halomd.net

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