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This
page gives an overview of my personal history with Unreal as well
as the history of this site and its projects.
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| Back in 1999
i bought me a new videocard (Viper 330 with 16 Mb of memory) that
also had a full copy of Unreal. Innitially i didnt play the game,
since i didnt want to play another single player game after DOOM,
DOOMII, Heretic, Quake, Quake II. Two years later i finally got a
decent internet connection and decided to go give it a try again with
a good friend of mine Derek (A.k.A. Plato) And for sure i had fun
playing against another person instead of bots. Not too long after
that we started playing on the net against other people. Mostly i
went playing on the good ol Jolt server (where there were more botters
than real players), but alla. |
But the main
servers i went to were the DEZZY I and the DEZZY II servers both run
by Bonekeeper A.K.A Bushbeater (real name Bill Elliot), who had a
clan called the BlueLords. In reallity this ment they were always
on the Blue team while all the other players had to play on the Red
team against them regardless the amount of people on the Red and Blue
team. Talking about unfair lol, it happened often that i played alone
against 8 or 10 others, but i always had great fun doing so, because
it ment i had alot of game against me that i could kill 
The other cool part about that server was that all maps were homemade
by BoneKeeper, and he did a great job on them. He always did build
in secret areas where you could get super health, armour, and weapons
with an endless amount of ammo (Sniper rifle with 800 rounds, or an
Eightball with 800 granades) and of course Jumpboots and Invisibility.
The secrets and invibility made it possible to fight agains another
big team, and for sure added alot to the gameplay  |
| BoneKeeper
passed away....... |
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Only 3 months
after i met BoneKeeper he passed away. About a month upfront i learned
he had severe heartproblems and things werent going to well, and made
me worried. Over the course of that month BoneKeeper kept playing
shorter and shorter each time because he could be on his computer
and got too tired and had to take a rest. Than, on a certain evening,
when we were playing, he all of a sudden left the game without saying
goodnight. Which is something he always did, he never left without
saying goodnight and often even dropped in to come say goodnight.
The next day the DEZZY servers were offline and 3 days later i checked
the site from Hellraiser together with Plato, and it was Plato who
noticed the running bar on top were it said BoneKeeper had passed
away........................
After i talked with BringIt and Hellraiser i came to the conclusion
that had died shortly(half an hour) after the last game he played
with me. Even though i had that eary feeling in that past month it
still was a big shock to me, much more than i had expected. |
| Prior to his
death there was already being talked about splitting the clan up due
to differences in opinions, and about 5 days after the demise of Bonekeeper
the Celtic Warriors was a fact. About a week later, because the clanleaders
kept beggin, i decided to go join them. |
| Pretty much at
the same time a big fight started between the BlueLords and Celtic
Warriors about Bonekeeper. The Celtic warriors and mainly BringIt
were made responsible for Bonekeepers death. At the same time the
Celtic Warriors started to believe that Bill Elliot never died but
only Bonekeeper did.... Personally i always though that he did die
and I still regret that, and i also still believe that in their hearts
the others did as well. In any case, both sides sayd horrible things
to eachother and this must have been oné of the saddest moments
of both clans. |
| The
files lost for history.......... |
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The other thing
that happened was that Bonekeepers computer had been erase directly
after his death, which ment all files and maps he made were lost.
I asked Bonekeeprer several times to upload his work to his website
but he never did. And i knew how to take maps out of cache which i
already planned to go do. Talking about concidentel things, the day
he died i needed to reinstall my computer and erased all cache files
because i knew i could get them again from the server (normally i
backup everything, but this time i didnt). And i planned to go take
out everything form cache as soon as i got my computer online again.
It was the first thing on top of my list, but after reinstall, the
DEZZIE servers were gone.......
And i absolutelly was horrified about that, all his work was lost
forgood, and that "almost" made me sadder than Bonekeeprs
death because that would have been his legacy.
Than an even more horrible thing happened, 2 months later Hellraiser
told me he would be offline for a day because he was gonna reinstall
his computer and would erase his C drive at the same time. Not even
half an hour after he left i was talking to BringIt about the lost
maps, and she told me Hellraiser still had all his cache files but
didnt know how to retrieve maps from those. And they didnt knew i
could retrieve those, and again this eary feeling came over me, and
sure enough 2 days later Hellraiser came back online and all cache
files had been erased in the reformat.....
I was absolute horrified, and couldnt believe it was lost due a conversation
that was a lousy 30 minutes too late. I was mad, I was disapointed,
I was depressed, I could cry, I was everything, I simply couldnt believe
this actually happened, but it did..................
BringIt did have cache files as well, and she did sent them to me,
but this were cache files from the very last days, and only contained
maps we already had (Bonekeeper did gave Hellraiser some 12 maps).
The one thing that was in the cache files was his latest project in
a very Beta stage. |
| One positive
thing came out of all this, i decided that this should never ever
happen again. I took the Celtic Warriors site from Budlites hands
and turned it into a massive downloadsite for Unreal and started to
collect anything from Unreal and have it for download on the site,
so nothing would ever go lost in history again. And up to this day
its oné of the largest if not thé largest downloadsites
for Unreal. Well, next to this site :) |
| In the General
downloadsection you can find all kind of downloads that are independend
from any version of the game. Which means the downloads apply to everything
outside Unreal, UT, UT2003, UT2004, Unreal II or UT3 |
| In the General
downloadsection you can find all kind of downloads that are independend
from any version of the game. Which means the downloads apply to everything
outside Unreal, UT, UT2003, UT2004, Unreal II or UT3 |
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