November 1 2025

• Another big update for the TeamSpeak 3 server and one of the updates I worked hard to be released in no more than 1 month. First we have an update with more plugins available for you to choose for version 3.1 and 3.1.10 (Not compatible with older versions before 3.1, in other words these plugins aren't designed to be working with Windows XP)

• As promised in the previous update, I bring our Owncast channel, more specifically for TeamSpeak users. I integrated that already in the Forum post as a Live Streaming and for people to use to stream content, It requires to be a TeamSpeak member then you can share screen with your friends. Because it was already designed that you are probably going to be using TeamSpeak 3 servers anyway, chat is disabled, but the "Follow button" is enable, so you can actually receive in a Fediverse instance the notification when someone is live or just receive it in your own browser. The direct link to access it and to follow for notifications is this: TeamSpeak 3 Share screen

• I also could recovery an important piece of plugin that was made in the TeamSpeak 3 betas and then ported over the years for many different TeamSpeak 3 versions, the one I'm talking here the plugin called "appscanner" which makes a scan of what the user is using on the time and show to others that are also using this plugin, pretty cool. Now what actually took so long to release this update is because I provided some quality life updates to the list of apps to detect your apps or game apps. The list will be updated by me and others with community contributions over time, but actually anyone can add that with your own programs, I just want to centralize everything to be easier for people receive updates for it. (In the future it might be better for people update that list clicking in some sort of "update.exe", but for now the list can only be updated, if replacing the existent apps.ini file (Location for each platform can be find under the txt that comes with the plugin).

• With release of lots of plugins that was missing from people's view, I'm also looking for developers to actually improve the appscanner plugin or maybe even make new plugins for the client, so please if you know what you are doing or you are interested in this project contact me through TeamSpeak or the Forum, talking about the Forum...

• Forum added in the TeamSpeak 3 client, for better access and also to tell people we have one. The decision of the Forum was made for us to post and share knowledge between old computers or even games you or me like, so feel free to make an account in our forum and share whatever you find interesting to share.

• Probably you noticed a new channel in our server called "Ventrilo files", that channel is also my attempt to recovery the lost media of Ventrilo. (Yes a competitor of TeamSpeak, but way more lightweight in comparison, designed for very low end PCs) Some of you are probably very curious why Ventrilo shows up there in the first place, well I personally never used/use Ventrilo myself, but it's still kind interesting the history of their downfall tho, so because of these reasons I also made a server for supporting dial-up connections and you can use it without any restriction accessing the DNS: lrvent.duckdns.org

Yes! It's a temporarily DNS for now but it should be able to connect on it. At the moment we have a server using version 2.1.2. But we also provide the server files and the client for everything below 3.0 versions. (3.0 although most used for other people, unfortunate has an issue with server licenses which makes impossible to actually have a new server in 2025, unless if you already paid for one in the past, version below 3.0 should work fine because they didn't implement that)

The features you get in Ventrilo below 3.0 is more likely comparable with TeamSpeak 2 features, so I wouldn't say it's an alternative to TeamSpeak 3, but I would be able to see an alternative to TeamSpeak 2, since it felt very nice to be using that in a Pentium III Windows 98 machine. Yes, Ventrilo below 3.0 something accepts up to Windows 95, so yeah in my opinion very worth it to preserve if there's any savage using Windows 95 and wants to communicate with others still or even Windows 98. :)

Continuing about the Ventrilo topic, if you want to be registered in our server, you need to provide a username and password for a Staff member, then eventually it will be registered in our Ventrilo server and on our TeamSpeak 3 server you will receive a Ventrilo badge, proving you got registered on it. It's not as mandatory to have you registered in our servers since the whole Ventrilo server is more like a side project we also offer to our users, but it will be quite handy if in the future we restrict access to it, thanks to trolls and why not... For now we are going to have the server without any restriction at all.

• In the channel "TeamSpeak 3 Client Files", we added all client versions for TeamSpeak 3 since it was demanding to provide an alternative for the official link hosted on archive.org. If it's needed we can also provide direct link in our own website, let us know if we need to change something about it, or just leave in our own TeamSpeak server instead. In that channel description you can see all DNSs we use to be able to connect in our server, it's quite handy since the high level domain is not as easy to remember anyway and the Japanese characters not always work as part of the domain itself...

• In the channel "Community servers", It's now going to be shown the servers available as Sub-channels instead of using Channel description. So with this change it should open more possibilities for customizing your server.

• I also decided to support the game Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars, a game from 2007. I personally love this game even in 2025 and unfortunate the official Master Servers are long gone thanks to Activision, so the only way to play this game properly is making small community. So now we also support playing sessions of that game. Even if you have the server files, It's impossible to join any server thanks to every single full version of the game requiring your server to Authenticate with the Master Servers, and since they are gone there's no way for you to actually connect on it.

Unfortunate thanks to the dead of Master Servers, It's impossible to create servers for the game today using normal ways. For version 1.5 we have ETQW.org which apparently supports this "Authentication", but because I like the retro perspective of the game, which in my opinion is golden, even including the hilarious glitches that comes with it, I will be using version 1.1 for the full version. The other alternative people have for servers and be able to connect on it is creating a private network, such as Hamachi to host the server there and then be able to connect. Hamachi is already included and very well known in the retro community, so that was the path I took here.

So in order to connect into the ETQW server we host, you need to well first join our TeamSpeak 3 server (especially to be able to talk using mics and know others that play the game). In the TeamSpeak 3 server we provide the Hamachi Network to join... We're planning to leave the server on all the time tho, 24/7, but unfortunate the Hamachi connection is a requirement for play the full version with others.

Alternatively we're also going to leave the Demo 2.0 version of the game opened from time to time, so for folks that want to just test things around, we're going to provide that alternative as well. The Demo servers for ETQW doesn't need authentication so you can join those servers without using Hamachi, just knowing the the IP for it, then the game will register the server under History, in the LAN play.

Keep in mind Demo 2.0 and full version 1.1 is very different in gameplay, we are using version 2.0, because it's easily more accessible than Demo 1.0 and tracking sites also can share more what we are trying to do here, so yeah... If you are a Quake Wars player, join our community, we honestly don't care about BS rules like most of the ETQW 1.5 servers tho. We want to provide a reliable solution for those servers instead.

As always if you appreciate what we're doing, don't forget you can support us donating, or making a plugin for people that use these old TeamSpeak clients, I'm sure people is going to appreciate your hard work tho. (We're going to appreciate it for sure :) ) Dunno about plugins? Then maybe you want to customize with soundpacks or skins, either way we support people's creation community... I mean if you are reading this probably you like to use TeamSpeak as much like me so why not supporting each other right?

Also we appreciate the community effort to preserve stuff so sharing knowledge, servers, clients or even tutorials is what we want to become, so as always if you have cool things to share feel free to use this Forum...

With this I hopefully I can organize myself and make one more update to the TeamSpeak 3 server before end of the year, I dunno, but we will see...