Since opening the
'Back To The Past' section of the
site, i have tried to contact the
old webmasters of Lazarus.
However, i have had no success.
Luckily Bernd from Ami Sector One
had the old HTML files. So it is
due to him, that they are here
today. Alothough the Lazarus team
were not able to comment on the
site, i have asked several
webmasters to comment... Anthony
Garner - Borrowed Time
Lazarus was
one of the first sites that i
visited when i first got ascess
to the internet. I was amazed by
its content, and thje great games
that it had online. Some of them
were really hard to find. The LSD
docs and apps were also good.
However, i soon changed this
opinion, as althought there were
lots of great games, i could
never download any, at any time
of the day. Although the download
would start, they would always
time out. This resulted in me not
using the site very often.
AV - Amiga
Vision
Lazarus was the king
of all other sites... All other
wabmaster looked at the site and
said WOW. Ohh, yeah the good old
days, the time where we all
visited Trantor, Classics for UAE
and those old but cool pages. It
was funny, in every link section
you entered they said the same
thing about Lazarus... Tons of
cool games and information -MUST
SEE-, and so on... :) I also
liked it because there were many
other things than just games..
Always new and good
information.Then the time came
and we saw the last thing to the
site. 4 weeks after, the whole
scene was dead...
Nobody actually talked much. I
think we all was very unhappy
about this... But after that time
something started again.. AGNUS
came, and everybody said that he
was the new Lazarus. Then Bobic
told me that MainCore still lived
and it was cool to see The Dream
Zone again.
Therealamiga.com was the coolest
site and many many people will
remember it forever.. I can also
remember that the first time I
told one of my friends about
amiga emulation, he answed: Ohh,
I have also heard about a program
called Lazarus with many games...
Good old Lazarus, it was the only
site around with so much
information and other things...
Im sure that I have forgot
something but it is so long time
ago so I cant remember anymore :(
Belgarath - Emulation
Forever
well when i came
accross it when it was pretty
much dead, ive respect for what
lazarus did from what i saw but i
wasnt really around to witness
it. in short lazarus was a great
site, but was under too enormous
strain and at the end it didnt
have the bandwith to support it
and it didnt seem to get any
support from any of its numerous
webmasters. its a shame it died
but better it did die then live
on as a shell of its former self
Bernd - Ami
Sector One
I liked it because
it is now after one year a legend
- and legends must die
some time. Lazarus was the
greatest Amiga site of all time.
No site will
ever reach the Lazarus status.
I did not dislike it because of
its game policy. Negative aspects
were for
me verrryyy slow downloads and
the fact that they earned much
money with the CD's.
Bobic - Back To The Roots
'Lazarus
- a name which I'll never forget'.
They were my starting place into
Amiga emulation in early 1998.
They have opened my eyes to the
beautiful world of Amiga
emulation and they're one of the
reasons why my Amiga Fever is now
stronger then ever before.Lazarus
was one of the biggest and
definitely the best Amiga
emulation site ever. They have
had all the classic games online
as well as a great collection of
scene demos and tools. It was
always a pleasure to read their
monthly editorials and to browse
through all the excellent
sections. One thing was really
amazing at this time: The fact
that Lazarus was not only a games
site. They have shown us, that
game are not all, that the Amiga
has other interesting features
and programs too and this was
really different to most other
websites. The 22nd December in
1998 was probably the sadest and
darkest day forthe Amiga
emulation community. Lazarus was
closed by the IDSA
(www.idsa.com), an organisation
which tries to stop software
piratery. Unfortunately it's
still illegal to put old
commercial software online,
Lazarus was caught by this
organsiation and unfortunately
this was their end. It was really
a huge loss for all of us,
because our paradasie has been
closed.But the Lazarus team has
done so much for the Amiga
emulation community and therefore
I would like to thank DeeJay99,
Yorker and all the others who
were involved in this project,
very much for their excellent
work and for the wonderful days
they have given me.Lazarus still
lives - in our hearts.
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