Original EQ Demo

[brunt-fca]

Does anyone remember the original EQ Demo before Kunark? I seem to recall it being Trumpy Irontoe acting as guide to this small zone that had a skeleton to defeat in it and a recovery of a gem. I remember playing it when totally bored and the servers were down. I looked on youtube but there are unfortunately no videos of it. Would be nice to see it again.

[Thugnuts]

Yeah, the original tutorial.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0ErchwGqR8

You could also use the tutorial exe to load any zone in the game, by modifying the command line to use a different map file. The loaded zone wouldn't load any NPCs of course, but you could explore it offline.

[worch]

Maybe you're thinking about the original tutorial?

https://youtu.be/F0ErchwGqR8

[brunt-fca]

hey thanks!

[brunt-fca]

hah awesome, this is it

[Sorn]

Yes, I remember that! You ran around as Soandso, haha. I think there was a large rat or something in there as well. Trumpy kept telling you what to do but you could run around as much as you wanted while ignoring him.

[newagemystic]

damn good times.

[kennymack007]

This is what got me playing EQ back in 2000. I got the EQ demo in one of those "demo pack" CDs that came with PC GAMER mag. I remember being like 12 years old and playing that demo over and over again. It always crashed at the end. Finally got my parents to buy a subscription and I was off into Norrath.

[drktmplr12]

wtb forced classic ui

[iruinedyourday]

the pre alpha stuff?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ae-1KuAvMY

There is another much higher quality video floating around, but I dont have the time to find it right now. I'm pretty sure I have it saved somewhere for posterity.

[Zels Bastard]

You want the tutorial files? It still works. :)

http://www.mediafire.com/?dzf8d78repsy4

[BahamutDF]

This is what got me playing EQ back in 2000. I got the EQ demo in one of those "demo pack" CDs that came with PC GAMER mag. I remember being like 12 years old and playing that demo over and over again. It always crashed at the end. Finally got my parents to buy a subscription and I was off into Norrath.

Heh, my parents were thrilled to buy me a sub back in the day.

"You mean to tell me we won't have to buy you new games every month? That'll you just play this one game?????? DONE

[Sorn]

You want the tutorial files? It still works. :)

http://www.mediafire.com/?dzf8d78repsy4

Didn't load correctly, it's looking for files in other folders that I don't have...I'm guessing you have a folder called EQ Stuff on drive E?

[Pyrocat]

You could also use the tutorial exe to load any zone in the game, by modifying the command line to use a different map file. The loaded zone wouldn't load any NPCs of course, but you could explore it offline.

http://i619.photobucket.com/albums/tt279/Minimanolo/2dvismx.gif

[Uthgaard]

The tutorial zone exists, I turned the entire zone into an event that mocked the server's most notorious personalities, complete with simulated ddos attacks that made people lag out during the fight with raren.

This is the original tutorial
http://www.project1999.com/forums/showthread.php?t=28992&highlight=tutorial

This was the event
http://www.project1999.com/forums/showthread.php?t=32617&highlight=tutorial

[Zels Bastard]

Well, I tried moving it around and it never seemed to complain about any files or anything. I've removed the link for now. Sorry, people.

[tristantio]

I have the pre-alpha files, I got them from someone in the past (don't remember who/where), the directory list looks like this:


-rw-r--r-- 1 my_user my_user 129078 Aug 6 1996 3DVIEW.BMP
-rw-r--r-- 1 my_user my_user 31534 Aug 6 1996 BAG.BMP
-rw-r--r-- 1 my_user my_user 312118 Aug 14 1996 BUTTONS1.BMP
-rw-r--r-- 1 my_user my_user 312118 Aug 6 1996 BUTTONSD.BMP
-rw-r--r-- 1 my_user my_user 308278 Aug 14 1996 DRAGITEM.BMP
-rw-r--r-- 1 my_user my_user 4081945 Aug 13 1996 EQUEST.T3D
-rw-r--r-- 1 my_user my_user 1764106 Aug 13 1996 EQUIP.T3D
-rw-r--r-- 1 my_user my_user 2849792 Aug 15 1996 EverQuest.exe
-rw-r--r-- 1 my_user my_user 48358 Aug 6 1996 GeneralSS.bmp
-rw-r--r-- 1 my_user my_user 55078 Aug 1 1996 HSLIDER.BMP
-rw-r--r-- 1 my_user my_user 308278 Aug 14 1996 Inventory.bmp
-rw-r--r-- 1 my_user my_user 64678 Aug 6 1996 IOVIEW.BMP
-rw-r--r-- 1 my_user my_user 116278 Aug 13 1996 MERCHANT.BMP
-rw-r--r-- 1 my_user my_user 46918 Aug 6 1996 Partyview.bmp
-rw-r--r-- 1 my_user my_user 23158 Aug 6 1996 ScreenSelect.bmp
-rw-r--r-- 1 my_user my_user 48358 Aug 6 1996 SocialsSS.bmp
-rw-r--r-- 1 my_user my_user 20278 Aug 15 1996 TEXTO.BMP


Unfortunately, I can't get the 3d part to work (the pre-alpha sign in pop up comes up, sees the sign in server is down and jumps into single player mode), however wine fails with the "this requires 256 color mode".

I even set up a Windows 95 virtual machine to attempt to run it, still no dice (although maybe the virtual was lacking proper 3d support, my Windows 95 image was in Polish so I couldn't read the error code).

Reading the exe in emacs hexl-mode (or GNU/linux hexdump) has some interesting strings in there (it was actually made/copyright by a company that branched off Sierra before it was Verant).

I'll upload the bitmaps for viewing somewhere.

[tristantio]

Here is the album link:
http://imgur.com/a/WMc1e

http://imgur.com/hrYD3ZL.png
http://imgur.com/HbPGs1w.png
http://imgur.com/udlTDx.png

http://imgur.com/tJ1badQ.png

http://imgur.com/iKNMQp4.png


http://imgur.com/P65NMki.png

http://i.imgur.com/Hw2g1Rg.png

[tristantio]

I'll post some of the interesting (or maybe not, who knows) strings:

You have to read the right column, not formatting all that sorry :)

Welcome to EverQuest! (and some gravity commands)


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Emotes, Fred and Dave


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Coded in Visual C++?


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The forefathers of EverQuest?


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[GinnasP99]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ym9hIEbnijw

[Champion_Standing]

I still use what I learned about ladders in that tutorial to this day