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There are other servers that have a high standard of accurate emulation ([https://www.project1999.com/ Project 1999]) and servers that are open source ([http://www.eqemulator.org/ EQEmu] + [http://www.peqtgc.com/ PEQ]), but not both. | There are other servers that have a high standard of accurate emulation ([https://www.project1999.com/ Project 1999]) and servers that are open source ([http://www.eqemulator.org/ EQEmu] + [http://www.peqtgc.com/ PEQ]), but not both. | ||
The Al'Kabor Project | The Al'Kabor Project aims to emulate EverQuest Mac in the Planes of Power era. Other servers typically emulate Velious, or Gates of Discord. | ||
The client used for this project is a late 2002 era client, which is the earliest client of all the emulated EQ servers. | The client used for this project is a late 2002 era client, which is the earliest client of all the emulated EQ servers. | ||
Revision as of 14:43, 2 August 2015
The Al'Kabor Project is an open source emulated EverQuest server. More specifically, it aims to replicate EverQuest's Al'Kabor server, which was the server for the Macintosh version of the game. The Al'Kabor server was perpetually stuck in the Planes of Power expansion, receiving no content updates for the decade of its life.
What's Unique About TAKP
The Al'Kabor Project is unique among other emulated EQ servers in that it is both fully open source and strives for a high degree of accuracy. There are other servers that have a high standard of accurate emulation (Project 1999) and servers that are open source (EQEmu + PEQ), but not both.
The Al'Kabor Project aims to emulate EverQuest Mac in the Planes of Power era. Other servers typically emulate Velious, or Gates of Discord.
The client used for this project is a late 2002 era client, which is the earliest client of all the emulated EQ servers.
There is a Macintosh client available for this server.
The official TAKP server has a boxing limit of three characters.
History
This project started in or around 2010 as a PEQ (ProjectEQ) project where developers from PEQ would log on the OSX server known as Al'Kabor, using a ppc client to record pathing, quests, and the likes for the zones that no longer exist on the PC version of Everquest. In the spring of 2012, SOE (now Daybreak) announced the closures of many of their games including The Al'Kabor Server and Everquest Online Adventure. A hacked PC Client was used by other developers in EQEmu community and it was unknown by the players at that time. It was quickly leaked to the public assuming the server would be shutting down for good. At that time, a couple of PEQ developers along with a couple of others in the eqemu community wanted to find ways to preserve the server as it is since it was the only unique "Classic" server. The Server sunset was postponed due to players plea to keep it alive for another year before it shut down for good. It also gave us a chance to develop tools to collect and to find a proper codebase which then became a PEQMac Project. We decided to make it a project apart from the PEQ project to avoid confusion. So we decided to call it The Al`Kabor Project since it is more universal with using a pc client as well as the mac client.