Quake III Arena demo 1.11

Local-only app id quake3_demo (2026-10-10, w4). OpenGL only.

Provenance and license boundary

• Installer Q3ADemo.exe, "Q3Demo v1.11 Win32", 3 Dec 1999, from Jason2Brownlee/Quake3OfficialArchive (bin/Q3ADemo.exe); the same 46.6 MiB file is on archive.org.
• 48,907,862 bytes, SHA-1 95fb0e8f595506dd30b57635db151f2e0762be02, SHA-256 6af96cb1b5c97535c9923d8855ca85ec21b21b65b48738b2c5e674e17c65835d (candidate quake-3-arena-demo-installer in test/candidate-corpus/manifest.json).
• The installer shows id Software's "LIMITED USE SOFTWARE LICENSE AGREEMENT" for "this game demo program entitled QUAKE III: ARENA". Section 3 (Permitted Distribution and Copying): so long as the agreement accompanies each copy, a non-exclusive, limited right to copy and distribute the software free of charge for non-commercial purposes (magazine cover discs included); CD copies labelled "SHAREWARE" or "DEMO"; no commercial distribution. Section 2 forbids, among others, renting/selling, distribution outside section 3, and (j) publicly displaying the software. So it is a local candidate fixture, not a public deployment input, and it is registered in LOCAL_CANDIDATE_APPS.

Install

The package is Installer VISE (MindVision); neither unzip nor 7z opens it, so the original installer runs in the emulator: node test/run.js --exe=.../Q3ADemo.exe --vfs-include=**/* --batch-size=10000 --control-stdin --frozen. Welcome -> Next (452,393); Software License Agreement (scroll the text by clicking the scrollbar track at (568,250); Page Down only moves the caret) -> Yes (452,393); destination c:\Q3Ademo -> Next; Ready To Install -> Next; copying demoq3\pak0.pk3 (46,853,694 bytes) takes ~50k batches at --batch-size=10000 (about two minutes); Finished. The 304-file c:\q3ademo tree was exported from ctx.vfs with a control eval (keys are lowercase) into test/binaries/candidates/quake-3-arena-demo-installer/installed/, and node tools/gen-installed-manifest.js <installed> quake3.exe wrote the 303-entry .wine-assembly-browser.json. No registry state is needed.

Running

• Main menu (SINGLE PLAYER / MULTIPLAYER / SETUP / DEMOS / CINEMATICS / EXIT) draws on both GL arms. Software GL (--gl-renderer=software) runs at about 13 batches/s at --batch-size=200000.
• Straight to a map: --args='+map q3dm1' (Arena Gate, free for all, fraglimit 20). Loading (BSP, game media, items) takes ~8000 batches at --batch-size=200000; then the player stands in the arena with the machine gun, 100 health / 100 ammo.
• Input: keyboard through window messages and DirectInput both work; Up moves forward, Left turns, Ctrl fires (holding it empties the machine gun and the game switches to the gauntlet, "OUT OF AMMO").
• WebGL (--headless-gl --gl-renderer=webgl --gl-census), 8600 batches: 33 distinct GL entry points, 6.57M GL calls, 297k packed draws, 3160 presents.