Not sure who uploaded it (probably DonKing?), but I stumbled across a torrent containing all the demos from Challenge-TV. It weighs in at 16GB and I'll be seeding it for the next few days (someone / some other people must be too as it didn't take very long to download). Got a spare corner of a hard drive? You never know when you might fancy firing a demo up...

http://isohunt.com/torrent_details/476828676/?tab=summary

Or if in the USA: https://archive.org/details/Challenge-TV_challenge-tv.com_demostorage_Quakeworld

(Edited 2013-06-18, 22:33)

woa, thanks for sharing
i'll try to get it and put it on the cloud, on a service like mega or something. maybe ill try share into those new <torrent in cloud> services

The butt is not a backup, http://i.imgur.com/yhyob.gif
And torrents die quickly if the content is not "hot".

http://www.quakeworld.nu/forum/topic/5893/challengetvcom-down#94321 , you probably want https://archive.org/details/Challenge-TV_challenge-tv.com_demostorage_Quakeworld

edit: Ah nice, that is actually the item I linked. Archive.org creates torrent files.

Edit:

I should've read Spirit's post before posting this. :p

The ISO Hunt link doesn't work in the USA, but the archive.org one works great.

Thanks for sharing!

I am going to start DL now and uncap my upload for the rest of the week if that helps...

1st link on this post returns
"Torrent has been censored, as required by US court."

Are these QW demos only?

Yes! QW only and some real gems included.
Complete series of
9 vs DR
Rapture 99
Smackdown season 1 - 6
TGI

combined 10.283 files.
Interesting to those who lost their collection or would like to see some of these classics.

Get the torrent from the archive.org link Spirit posted

https://archive.org/details/Challenge-TV_challenge-tv.com_demostorage_Quakeworld

There's also a direct http download link there.

I have uncapped my upload and will be seeding all week

is there a list of all QW demos included?
I got all qw demos at some point (2003-4 ish), before dK had to clean up for disc space. But I am not sure he removed any qw demos at that point.

and if there is; can someone post it here/seperately?

Here.

That's the content of the zip.

Archive.org provides an archive browser, just copy a download URL and append a slash.

https://archive.org/details/Challenge-TV_challenge-tv.com_demostorage_Quakeworld
https://archive.org/download/Challenge-TV_challenge-tv.com_demostorage_Quakeworld/challenge-tv.com_demostorage_Quakeworld.tar
https://archive.org/download/Challenge-TV_challenge-tv.com_demostorage_Quakeworld/challenge-tv.com_demostorage_Quakeworld.tar/


PS: This forum is so god damn annoying to use. Blocking Ctrl-Tab, not making links automatically, fffffuuuu.

the .tar file contains 1495 innefficient .qwd demos
wouldn't be best to convert these to .qwz?

also, big-bag "quakeworld" folder is 13gb would be interesting to be able to download just the classics. like a "1996-2000" folder

imho

Seeding on 100 mbit upload.

If somebody loves research and creating folders, some tidying up in that .rar would be greatly appreciated. QuakeWorld and QuakeWorld2 folders doesn´t really make anyone happier.

I just realized that Ezquake somehow reads the folders when you start it.
For some reason it took Ezquake ~1 minute before it started and I couldn't connect to a server, it failed every time. Even loading "map dm3" locally required about 2 minutes. What I had changed was that I put all demos from that archive to d:\quake\qw\demos\chtv-archive....when I removed it again, it's back to normal.

So don't put ~16 Gig of demos into a Quake subfolder!

Maybe a bit late, but downloading and seeding here too. There is way too much history to let something like this fade into oblivion.

Ah, maybe when I screenshot qw reads everything in /qw which is why the server thinks I'm timing out... or maybe just because the hard drive has to start again after inactivity...

thumbs up

You can find challenge-tv stuff now here too:
http://demos.igmdb.org/ChallengeTV/

I lost this file... tried the torrent again and someone is still seeding with awesome speeds too 5MB/sec! good work.

Just in case:

chtv_demos_list.txt
chtv_demos.tar

After download finished.... 16GB @ 5MB/sec I found the copy I originally had anyway

Awesome

That's archive.org doing it's duty.

Archive.org seeds torrents? I initially tried getting it from Archive.org and it was as slow as hell so that is when I tried the torrent.

Unfortunately the Torrent is incomplete. It didn't contain heaps of demos that I know were previously on Challenge-TV for example the Smegged 99 Tournament which was probably the biggest most important 1on1 tourney in Australian QW history.