Original Allakazam page from 1999Follow

Does anyone have a link or any images of the original page from back so long ago?
Was talking to a friend--we both used to play EQ years ago--and I remembered how Zam got its start as a 1 page EQ1 tips. I expect it maybe lost to history, but if anyone has an image or knows where I can find it please respond, Thank you.

tjhe oldest i could found on the wayback machine

http://web.archive.org/web/20000511085510/https://everquest.allakhazam.com/

here is the oldest news links still on the site
https://everquest.allakhazam.com/news_archives.html?1&page=61

Thats good stuff I barely remember that page, I started playing in march 2000. I remember using on a daily basis EQAtlas. I think i must have had an entire binder of printed out maps from that website. Its still up as well, only goes to PoP maps though which is a shame. I wish i had the time and know how (not to mention artistic ability) i would do all the ones after PoP. The original EqAtlas maps were very detailed. I sometimes still look up a map on eqatlas because sometimes the ones in game kinda suck. :) anyway happy hunting

I have a homemade binder of EQAtlas maps and sometimes I waste time just flipping thru and enjoying them. His write-ups were great, too. Made the zones sound very interesting, although sometimes zones that were higher-level than I was at the time could sound scary and intimidating the way he'd describe them. I remember being petrified of Nurga and Droga first time I zoned in with EQAtlas maps open next to my keyboard.

Edited, Oct 26th 2013 7:16pm by Sippin

if you seach EQAtlas their is a copy of it some where out on the internet still working.

Oh. Missed one!:

 
 
    <DT><A HREF="http://216.155.25.102/" ADD_DATE="947816674" LAST_VISIT="973896900" LAST_MODIFIED="947816647">AllaKhaza 
m's Magical Realm - Your source for Everquest Information</A> 
 

There was a period of time where name resolution wasn't working for some reason.

It might be time to let some of those old hard drives go

Never had a complete hard drive wipe, or you that good at keeping back ups? If you are ! I got some ones from the 90s backed up, but they're entire directories and who knows which backup CD they're on.

Just surprised me, you got it so quickly. Although I have had a computer and HDD last 14+ years, that's not the average for ones people sit at and use all the time.

EDIT: And yea, DNS servers used to go down alot. I used to keep alot of sites bookmarked by number.

Yther Ore.

Edited, Oct 28th 2013 10:28pm by Yther

Edited, Nov 1st 2013 12:18am by Yther

Still have 1.2GB in an old IBM Pentium 1 machine. I think I threw away all the 486 and earlier machines finally. Had 8086/8 forget which IBM from 80/1 until about 8-10 years ago when I finally got rid of it. Think I still have a Tandy Color Computer around, only cassette though, no floppy drives.

Talking about all the old crap, is making me miss my cocktail space invaders.

Yther Ore.

I used to be that way. Marriage you make exceptions. Every few years, she makes me go through stuff and trash what I don't "need." Last few times, since I've been so ill, and figure I'll never get back to it, might as well dump it, I've gotten rid of everything but books. Most of them are probably going next time. And my vinyl, if I ever get around to fixing the turntable to record them to MP3s. I would keep the vinyl, but most of the album covers are ruined from flooding 20+ years ago. Only reason, I've kept them this long is I keep thinking, I'll convert them, since some are rare.

I got everything that I could off floppy drives about 15 years ago or may be more, and was really good about backing everything up. Magnetic media was notorious for failures, and non-laser prints faded pretty quickly back in the day. Although I may still have the 100 pages (16K) or so of BASIC code from a teletype (like a type writer, instead of a dot-matrix printer) for the old Star Trek game on a TRS-80 computer.

Nostalgia is setting in. Maybe I should go through the old video tapes, I still have a few VCRs that work. That might get me off this nostalgia.

Oops. Whole reason I replied, was to mention that floppy disk life expectancy is only a few years of use or non-use. CDs and DVDs have about 25+ years of non-use, and many years of use. Audio CDs are great 'cause of redundancy and error correction. I got about 99% of a Iron Maiden CD that was shot full of holes with a shotgun to play fine without any help. Almost the entire thing, but maybe a few skips. CD cleaning solution works great for scratched up ones too. We took a software CD at work one time, and tortured it with sand paper, files, heat (not enough to completely melt / bend it, but left scorch marks). Used that solution on it, and got most of the info off without doing anything else to it, but cleaning it. I swore by that stuff afterwards, and after having some barely scratched up CDs appear not work any more.

EDIT: Through away all non-3.5" floppy disks after hooking up a 5.25" drive and testing out some disks I still had lying around (atleast 500 still). Got like 5% of them to read, and reformatting the non-readable ones rarely cured them. So most of yours are probably toast like you said. If you got some good drives, and knew what you were doing with manually aligning the heads, you could probably read alot more.

EDIT 2: My probablem is not having it backed up so much as finding it. Although the past few years I've been slacking on doing a proper back up on semi-permanent (DVD) media. I just don't generate that much new stuff any more.

Yther Ore.

Edited, Oct 29th 2013 5:54am by Yther

Couple years back I threw away several real old DOS systems with 5-inch FLOPPY drives. (Anyone who remembers those is showing their age!) About 3 months later I had a system crash and I had to reinstall an old commercial software program which still was adequate for the task it performed. Well, I found the original installation disks... sure enough, they were on 10 5-inch floppy disks!

I had to go on eBay and buy a salvaged 5-inch floppy drive for $40 and install it in a new system just to reinstall the software.

Ouch, that hurt.

Older were bigger, in physical size, but way lacking in capacity. Is this the start of size vs age war?

I could only afford cassettes back in the day when 8+ inch drives were around / popular. Local auction house had their old TRS-80 with about 10 5.25" drives out a few years ago. I remember when they got that system some nearly 30 years ago. Memories of first games for your programmable HP calculators come to mind.

EDIT: And Sippin probably took better care of his 5.25s. Mine had been sitting a garage through the weather for many years. And 8", maybe because they fly better, hurt worse!

Yther Ore.

Edited, Oct 29th 2013 1:59pm by Yther

Oddly enough, I still have a copy of Windows 1.0 on floppy floating around some place in my garage....