Once you've selected the game you want to write review for you need to enter where some details into the Reviewer, Save Directory and File Extension boxes.

Then its simply a matter of taking the details from an email and pasting them in. Some boxes do require a certain type of input.

• In the Output Filename box you'll only need to give a filename and NOT an extension. The extension is taken from the File Extension box.
• The Author Email box only needs the authors email address. (No mailto: text)
• The File Size box just needs the number, the Kb is added later.
• Number of Players is the entire string, e.g. 2 to 6 Players.

• Author Website
• Picture Caption 1
• Picture Caption 2
• Small Picture 1
• Large Picture 1
• Small Picture 2
• Large Picture 2

To create the HTML file hit the Create Review button. It also saves all the reviews you've done that session to a DAT file (text file). Depending on the type of review you are creating depends on what file the session is saved to. For Quake its Quake.DAT and for Quake 2 its Quake2.DAT.

If a DAT file exists the program will automatically load it up when it loads up. This means you can save the reviews you're working on and come back to them later.

NOTE : When starting a new batch of reviews I recommend you delete (or backup somewhere else) the DAT file because this way it will be easier to keep track of what you've done. Also this will stop potential problems when creating Review Indexes.

After creating this initial review the button will become active and clicking the New Review button will start the process of making a review again.
 

Viewing a created review.

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Once you've saved the review, you can view it. To do this click the View Review button. This will take the filename of the HTML file and load up the review in your default HTML browser.

NOTE : If the review is already loaded up in a HTML browser, you'll have to Refresh/Reload the review in your browser.
 

Checking what reviews you've done.

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You probably create quiet a few reviews with the program. Now it can keep track of them and you can swop between them, say if you wanted to correct a review.

To check what reviews you've done click the Reviews Done button. This will bring up the screen shown below.

From here you can see what reviews you done and swop between them. To swop to another review you can double click on it on the list, or select it then click the button.

NOTE : Please make sure you've saved your work before swopping to another review, otherwise you will lose the review you currently have entered.

First select a review from the list. Then hit this button and review will be deleted. A backup of the reviews is made just incase (File name will be either Quake.DAT or Quake2.DAT).

NOTE : The backup is of just before you deleted your work. Say if you delete another record the backup will be over written.
 

Creating a Review Index.

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Once you've finished doing your reviews you can create an index for those reviews. Click on the Review Index button and it will create an index for them in a file called review.htm. This is file is pretty useless to you since the paths are hard coded. Basically its so I can easily add your update to Quake and Quake 2 indexes on the site.
 
 

Where to get the program from.

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Program:
http://asp.planetquake.com/dl/dl.asp?mpq/mpqinput.zip
Source code:
http://asp.planetquake.com/dl/dl.asp?mpq/mpqinput_src.zip
Inspection Pak:
http://asp.planetquake.com/dl/dl.asp?mpq/ins-pak.zip
 

Version Info.

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0.602 (13th August 1999)
Now with support for MPQ Short reviews.

0.601 (1st August 1999)
Bug fix for something really dumb.

0.600 (28th July 1999)
Now with support for Inspection Reviews. Read this file for details on how to create an Inspection Review.

0.501 (23rd June 1999)
Review indexes should now work. I'd messed up how it gets the directory you're running the program in (missed out a '\').
Made it so it saves the state of the Your Review Checkbox to the ini file.

0.500 (22nd June 1999)
You can now delete reviews from Reviews Done screen.
Added Your Review checkbox. If this is clicked it will make a review in the Your Review format.
Can now work on both Quake and Quake 2 reviews at once. I fixed it!!!
Tidied up layout. Moved large/small text picture boxes.
Changed caption on Save button from Create Review to Save Review.

0.401 (2nd May 1999)
Added option so you can create either normal all HTML reviews or CSS reviews.
Fixed 'Review Index' button on Quake 2 reviews. It actually helps when you put some code in...

0.400 (27th April 1999)
Program can now create CSS reviews.

0.303 (25th April 1999)
Added code to stop you from having captions of over 31 characters. Longer than that and formatting screws up.
Got rid of all those <br>'s which caused Quake and Quake 2 (mostly Q2) reviews to look screwed up.
Slightly tidied up code for creating HTML files.
Fixed title bar of review so it shows properly in Netscape (scummy browser).
Also fixed something else which I just can't remember right now...

0.302 (22nd April 1999)
Reviewers name now stored, also printed on reviews.

0.301 (21st April 1999)
Fixed a really stupid bug which caused reviews to just disappear...

0.300 (19th April 1999)
Added picture caption boxes. Monsto!!!
Added Map Author website box.
Sorted out saving of HTML files (again).
Added saving for reviews to DAT files.
Made interface a little tidier.
Added code to make review indexes.

0.100 (15th April 1999)
Adding Reviews done list.
Sorted out problems with saving HTML files.
Sorted out tab orders.

0.001 (4th April 1999)
Creates very messy HTML Files.
 

Credits.

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Program and manual written by Paul Healey.
email: paulhealey@lineone.net

All Logos by Kable.
email: kable@softhome.net

Testing and Bug info : Monsto Brukes.
email: monsto@planetquake.com

Extra info from Agent Orange and Christian Katsch.