Alien Front Online Server Update: Now Online

[petter3k]

If he maybe has that - what other stuff may he have? Im thinking if he was in charge of the status over the servers, I doubt they only managed one game each? In that case you have a very good lead given he has anything of the kind, but if he has, be sure to ask for everything released on the console in regards to both sources, betas and servers.

Yup, I sent him a list of games that are currently offline and requested any information that might help us revive those games. He knows he saved the Quake server software which he actually released online after the servers first went down. He mentioned helping a group of people with hosting a Quake server back in the day. Possibly DC-Talk or OC?

As Im not really into Quake seeing as its PC-compatible (given the same maps are played) I thought they released that to the public as a map-pack for the PC servers since they were compatible? Either way, we'll wait and see then, be sure to remind him if he does not respond in the timeframe he gave you though!

I learned alot from talking to the maintainer of KAGE which confirmed its evolution into SNAP later on, and he explained the whole process extrememly detailed, so now that we have basic Kage emulation working which was only for the Dreamcast, it might be possible to replicate the SNAP servers aswell in the future.
So everything people and mostly developers remember from that time is worth saving and writing somewhere, preferably sharing like I have done (but its way out of date) in the resource-section at dcserv.org.

[DR TEAMCAST]

Its right around the corner, both me and Shuouma working on it - dont worry, it'll be there. He has a Katana Devkit too, so testing is alot easier now.

Anyway, GUYS, TIME TO GATHER UP:

I actually contacted the lead developer of Unreal Tournament again, informing him that there must be around 100 people willing to pay for the repair of his harddisk.

Here is what he replied, almost straight away:

Can you find someone in the Raleigh, NC (or better Cary, NC) that would be able to handle it?

SO you guys who live or know the geography of USA better than someone from Norway, gather up and find someone, and maybe start a fundraiser of some sort. I actually encourage you guys to actually pay for the repair of his HDD rather than donations to me, which I btw appreciate VERY much, and it is ofcourse something that motivates me to do this kind of free work.

Thats all. Somebody else take the ball and I'll forward it to him, as you want AFO back, right?

There's plenty. Here are some links

These first two links look the best at first glance
https://www.securedatarecovery.com/loca ... na/raleigh
https://www.securedatarecovery.com/serv ... e-recovery

This one looks very credible also, though we might have to add like $60 for his road trip back and forth
http://carolinadatarecovery.com/services

Moar
http://datarecoveryservices.net/raleigh ... overy.html
http://www.filesaversdatarecovery.com/l ... gh-nc.html

I think the fundraiser should be hosted by dcserv, since whoever regularly visits would be the people most likely to contribute. And having it hosted there would have the maximum odds people will contribute because you (petter3k) have a real lot of credibility over anyone else here besides Jonas

I can't contribute too much if it were in the next week or two, but if it's an ongoing thing for a month or so I can contribute significantly more

[DR TEAMCAST]

Call it "Mission:Unreal"

[petter3k]

Ok, will do but I just told Josh we'll wait and see for a couple of weeks before we do (incase PCs leads actually gives us something).

[Xiden]

Its right around the corner, both me and Shuouma working on it - dont worry, it'll be there. He has a Katana Devkit too, so testing is alot easier now.

Anyway, GUYS, TIME TO GATHER UP:

I actually contacted the lead developer of Unreal Tournament again, informing him that there must be around 100 people willing to pay for the repair of his harddisk.

Here is what he replied, almost straight away:

Can you find someone in the Raleigh, NC (or better Cary, NC) that would be able to handle it?

SO you guys who live or know the geography of USA better than someone from Norway, gather up and find someone, and maybe start a fundraiser of some sort. I actually encourage you guys to actually pay for the repair of his HDD rather than donations to me, which I btw appreciate VERY much, and it is ofcourse something that motivates me to do this kind of free work.

Thats all. Somebody else take the ball and I'll forward it to him, as you want AFO back, right?

There's plenty. Here are some links

These first two links look the best at first glance
https://www.securedatarecovery.com/loca ... na/raleigh
https://www.securedatarecovery.com/serv ... e-recovery

This one looks very credible also, though we might have to add like $60 for his road trip back and forth
http://carolinadatarecovery.com/services

Moar
http://datarecoveryservices.net/raleigh ... overy.html
http://www.filesaversdatarecovery.com/l ... gh-nc.html

I think the fundraiser should be hosted by dcserv, since whoever regularly visits would be the people most likely to contribute. And having it hosted there would have the maximum odds people will contribute because you (petter3k) have a real lot of credibility over anyone else here besides Jonas

I can't contribute too much if it were in the next week or two, but if it's an ongoing thing for a month or so I can contribute significantly more

Any ball park quotes on the cost of HDD Recovery?

[The-Amazing-Mr_V]

I would gladly chip in on the had recovery also. Could there be other useful information on there?

[pcwzrd13]

Any ball park quotes on the cost of HDD Recovery?

There are a lot of factors to consider like how damaged the hard drive is and the capacity of it. It can range anywhere from $200 to over $1,000.

[Nico0020]

I think we should look into both options.

1. check into our new source.
2. Maybe compile just a list for now of people willing to donate to the HDD recovery, and how much they can give. Do it via Email perhaps, just to get a ballpark figure of how much we can get.

[The-Amazing-Mr_V]

I agree with Nico's idea. And that way people's amount donated would remain anonymous.

[DR TEAMCAST]

Any ball park quotes on the cost of HDD Recovery?

There are a lot of factors to consider like how damaged the hard drive is and the capacity of it. It can range anywhere from $200 to over $1,000.

Yeah I'm pretty much assuming it needs the $1k repair. We'd need 50 people to contribute $20 which isn't a mountain moving idea

@petter3k it's probably better to wait until after AFO's release anyway, because traffic to dcserv and here will (probably) be up exponentially, increasing the amount of contributors and the likelihood they'll contribute. In speculative theory of course

There is that guy sponsoring dreamcast indies too