vidiotmaps - link is dead

[SerialBeggar]

I hadn't looked at vidiotmaps for a while.  Was it shut down?

[houtex]

Beefcake, the owner/admin(?) of the sites badge-whore, badge-hunter, and vidiotmaps, had issues with the domain host, and then the shutdown came upon us, so he just kinda had to go do other things, last I heard.  Currently the domains are all expired and/or squatted, in the case of badge-hunter, by something that looks sketchy.

Dang shame, really.  But yeah, they're no more.

[Aggelakis]

The static vidiotmaps are all stored on ParagonWiki, though the interactive ones are lost ;-;
http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Category:VidiotMaps

[eabrace]

the interactive ones are lost

Unless, by some miracle, Blondeshell happens to have them.

[Blondeshell]

I've got the coordinates for all the entities, but, alas, the actual programming was handled by people other than myself.

[TonyV]

[Electric-Knight]

Very interesting, Tony.
Definitely a shame.

If it makes you feel any better, I never used vidiotmaps!

Hehe, nah, pretty much everyone else I knew did use it. I never bothered though.

Still, maybe someone, somewhere, will get hold of the programs that are missing.

[Captain Electric]

Those files are probably sitting somewhere on someone's hard drive. If so, and they happen to read this, I hope they do the right thing and get in touch with Tony. Don't let years of hard work go to waste, and don't punish the entire community over some misunderstanding about Tony's motives or reliability that happened ages ago. There's no way that a game like City of Heroes is gone forever. Eventually those maps will be very desirable again.

[Ice Trix]

You can get the overlay pack (i23) from their source forge page still: http://sourceforge.net/projects/vidiotmaps/ but sigh,  it would be nicer to have the web pages up still.

[Sailboat]

This is not something the Wayback Machine could provide?  (Genuine question, as I am ignorant of the technological implications).

[srmalloy]

This is not something the Wayback Machine could provide?  (Genuine question, as I am ignorant of the technological implications).

I'm pretty sure that the Wayback Machine won't collect active pages, because it's a robot -- it trawls the Net collecting web pages. But what it collects are the web pages that you'd see in your browser, not the CGI code on the server that created them. So you'd get a snapshot of the interactive maps, but there wouldn't be anything that made them interactive.

[Blondeshell]

I've actually done quite a bit of searching through the Web archive to see what I could recover, without any significant luck. It seems that the bots never got much past the first pages of the site or the forums. Thus, the only things you get when you dig deeper are the live links that say the domain is up for sale.

Which is a shame, really, because there was a lot of good discussion about badges and maps in the older posts on the forums. I also had notes there about how to recreate the map pack installable file in case Beef Cake wasn't around for the next updates.