We apologise for the inconvenience
 

phew

And the crowd goes "echo".

But also fuck yeah!

I seriously thought we'd lost the content. I was shitting myself.

Where is the forum hosted now?

Wheresmyserver, welly.

First!

Oh wait, never mind.


Edit: Huge thanks for to those that contributed to getting this back up and running.

OMG OMG OMG!

Woo!

My goodness I have missed this place.

Me too 😉

Big ups to all to get this back up and running...

Think I saw somewhere we are running on a newer version of vbulliten, does it support Tapatalk?

Shut up Ashley!

I missed this place.

Nah not yet. For Tapatalk we need an newer version of Vb, which means I need to upgrade PHP and MySQL and a whole bunch of other shit first, and it's a trainwreck of dependencies. But (plug) the Wheresmyserver (/plug) platform is bloody great with snapshots and rollback so I can try stuff, break stuff, roll back, try it different over the weeks to come.

:)

Well holy shit, I thought this place had finally turned up its toes. Well done to the nerds behind the scenes for resurrecting nzg once again like it's fucken Winston Peters or something.

Huh. Well. Wasn’t expecting to see this again. Nice one!

Home of the Pheonix :p

Well done chaps.

Back like an itch. How we miss you NZG!

Yay!

Wheres Liz?

Also, wooooooooo
Yearly check-in complete.

So the most recent iteration of addresses - http://www.nzgames.com/forums/ - doesn't work, so anyone with bookmarks etc that wasn't a part of the facebook group will probably miss out.

UUuuuuguuguggggghghgg

*eyes roll back into view*

That was close.

Yeah, now we have two completely separate sites -

nzgames.com
forums.nzgames.com (here)

I only have administrative control over the latter. So I can try something at DNS level (tried yesterday, failed, but that might have been firewall blockheadedness on my part - update, retried, seems to be working) to rewrite requests for nzgames.com/forums to forums.nzgames.com, or take down the historical record that is "the front page" and point the whole domain at the new server.

I *think* I have a content archive of the main page but some of it is so old that it exists only as raw html somewhere if at all. Like, 1996 old. I know there's a chunk of 1997's posts missing from when we moved hosting back then and nobody remembered to get archives before closing the old account, but I don't want to walk away from the front page and its content until I know I've done everything I can to duplicate it. Just for historical reasons of course. Over the years lots of people have put in lots of hours on this fucking blackhole of time and effort and I'd feel like it was a little bit less than completely unjustified if the stuff was still online as a record of a simpler time when most of us were punk kids with nothing more important in our lives.

Here's the official 2017 blackout thanks list, in sort of chronological order:


A guy whose first name starts with J at Vodafone for being helpful as much as he could and when he was no longer in a position to rescue shit personally he put me on to someone else.

Pimp-X for offering to help and for pointing me in the direction of others who might also be able to.

Ender for much the same, and for making himself available if the people I was already talking to couldn't/wouldn't help.

A guy whose first name starts with S at Vodafone for being helpful as much as he could and when he was no longer in a position to rescue shit personally he put me on to someone else.

A couple of guys at Vodafone that I never interacted with personally but whom an email trail reveals were asked by S to look at shit that wasn't their problem.

A guy whose name starts with A at Vodafone for being the guy who got physical access to the dead old server, confirmed it was fubar, yanked the drives, found a working server of comparable vintage with similar hardware, put the drives in, confirmed the data looked intact, and who then ran out of time to help more and then yanked the drives and just hung on to them so they didn't get wiped and thrown out as junk (oh jesus this came so close to happening I want to kiss this guy).

BaM for helping me set up new hosting in Welly and for also making himself available as a destination for the drives if I could get them picked up from A.

Vorlon for physically going to Voda and collecting the drives from A, then delivering them to Crankshaw.

Crankshaw for managing to get the ancient drives in a box, boot it, get the box on a network, find the forums db sql, and export it and upload it to me.

Everyone who emailed, texted, and left messages on FB offering support and for generally reminding me that I wasn't the only person who didn't want to see this place just die.


Edit - the fact that I could draw on so many people whom I still know more by their gamer tags than their actual names is either terribly cool or terribly scary.

Edit - photos from A. Pour one out for the departed nzgames.paradise.net.nz, with its old SCSI HDs, floppy drive, serial and parallel ports, analog VGA video socket, and dead mobo. Originally set up by Goldie back in the day it served us well until it didn't.

Lol look at that asset sticker - December 2000.

yay :)

Good work everyone! Are we putting the band back together?

Super happy to see this back - thanks for the effort Ab (and co).

All credit to Vorlon (Shay), Crankshaw (Joe), and Voda guys S and A. They did the heavy lifting.

Yay! I'm so happy nzg is back. I missed you.

Thank you all.

oh, thank you!!! Glad to back here, I always click shortcut URL to nzgames.com forums everyday lol..

Congratulations all - missed the vibe :)

Habitually typed in the address. Damn. Nice work.

The facepalm emoticon didn't make it. This is devastating.

Yeah nah it made it, it's just the path to the image is b0rken somewhere. I'll fix.

Well done all involved.

Rescuing a fucking SCSI disk set on this day and age is no mean feat.

Pfft - Next you'll be saying Cobol'76 programmers were underpaid for Y2K!

:p

PS - I can't back up that comment...

Ahahaha, I accidentally clicked on the bookmark instead of some other site and holy shit that was a surprise.

Pi...ahh fuck it.

Hey all my programs worked fine (I think) 999999 was a great end of fie marker for us. I wrote the main Cobol update program for a major (nah, won't tell you the name) life insurance company in the early 1970's. Yep, I'm old. (oh, they're still around by the way, with the same name, albeit owned by one of the multi nationals).

Great to see you back forums. Just waiting for Ashley now. Ciao Bene (I'm learning Italian ;)))

Phew.............

_b

Well done...