Hlmaster

HLMaster readme last updated Saturday, 22. December 2001

Function and purpose ::...............................................

HLMaster implements a fully functional, automatic master-server
daemon for the game Half-life (and all mods based on this engine).

Because the master-server protocol is not open, I had to figure
it out myself. Some features might not be implemented, some may
be 'wrong'. However, all basically required features should work.

I have tested hlmaster with the following query-tools:

  o GameSpy  - http://www.gamespy.com
  o QStat    - http://www.qstat.org


If you encounter any problems with any query tool, please
send an e-mail to bullet@users.sourceforge.net.

Note: Current versions of gamespy are incapable of receiving more
      than 230 gameservers from hlmaster. This limitation comes
      from GameSpy, not hlmaster (GameSpy is using an old protocol).

Check http://hlmaster.sourceforge.net for newest version.

Documentation ::......................................................

Documentation is provided within the 'doc' directory. On Linux,
the manfiles are installed by 'make install' as well.

Additionally, there is an html version of the manfiles in the
doc/html directory.

Please note: The documentation might not allways be up to date.

Additional files ::...................................................

  o COPYING       License information.
  o AUTHORS       List of authors working on this project.
  o NEWS          Human readable list of major changes.
  o ChangeLog     Raw list of changes.
  o TODO          List of unimplemented features.
  o INSTALL       Basic installation instructions.

Example files ::......................................................

These files should be found in the 'examples' directory.

  o woncomm.lst   A sample master configuration for half-life.
  o server.list   A sample gameserver list for hlmaster.
  o filter.list   A sample gameserver filter list for hlmaster.


Check the documentation for more information.

Copyright ::..........................................................

Copyright (c) 2001 Silvan Minghetti

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

Legal notes ::........................................................

Half-Life is a trademark of valve software.