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QB64.ORG Forums
<-- After only one or two... okies... maybe ten or twenty.... or a few more than that even... months since the old QB64.ORG Forums were burnt down and shuttered for good, I *cough* *cough* FINALLY put together an offline version for everyone who might want to keep a personal backup of all that information. Grab the archive via the link to the top left, but be aware of the size of everything you're getting here!!
The *compressed* file is almost 2GB in size.
Uncompressed, this comes in at around 10GB, give or take a bit.
This is.... EVERYTHING that was on the old forums, before they were deleted. For ages now, Luke has been so kind as to host a mirror of these forums for everyone, and that mirror is still up and available for folks at: https://qb64forum.alephc.xyz/index.php
So, I can hear some of you guys asking, "So why would anyone want to grab a 2GB archive of that set of forums, if they're already up on the web??"
I dunno! I guess that'd be up to each person to answer for themselves. Maybe someone just wants an offline version so they'll always have all these old posts, samples, and discussions. Maybe someone wants to convert all this information over to a different format -- PDF, EPUB, CHM, whatever!
I'm just offering the OPTION here to make it easy for folks who want a copy -- for whatever reason -- to be able to just grab it and enjoy it. No one has to grab a copy of this. I don't imagine that Luke's mirror is going to go anywhere , anytime soon. It's just here now, for those who might want it for themselves, for whatever reason. 
QB64.ORG Forums
<-- Link to the archive once again.
NOTE that this is too large for the forums to handle, so this is stored on my OneDrive account. Don't be surprised if you get redirected and have to click, "Yes, I really do want to download this.", depending on your browser and security settings and whatnot. 
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This is awesome. Thanks!
Do you have a dump for the .net forum as well? The one we had before .org.
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(05-21-2024, 08:18 AM)a740g Wrote: This is awesome. Thanks!
Do you have a dump for the .net forum as well? The one we had before .org.
I'm afraid not. It was the loss of all the .net stuff that ended up turning me into the excessive backup hoarder that you see before you today. 
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thanks Steve
a chm would be great to have especially if it's indexed
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@SMcNeill thanks for this effort and share! This is very helpful and valuable.
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I wish we could get a database export. I tried to use the old one that I found on Archive.org (I think that was where you guys told me to get it...) but it was missing files it needed for MySQL to use the data. Are we in contact with the owner of this site still, and if so would they try to export it again with some guidance? Not like I'm a MySQL guru, but the files provided were actual disk files the /var/lib/mysql stuff. Would have been great if they were fully complete and included everything but it didn't. My hunch is that they were copied while the database was still running or something. Instead a mysqldump of the entire database would be the most accessible way to export, and allow anyone to use any RDBMs to mine the data.
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(05-21-2024, 09:52 AM)SMcNeill Wrote: (05-21-2024, 08:18 AM)a740g Wrote: This is awesome. Thanks!
Do you have a dump for the .net forum as well? The one we had before .org.
I'm afraid not. It was the loss of all the .net stuff that ended up turning me into the excessive backup hoarder that you see before you today. I have a copy of the qb64.net wiki from March 27th of 2015 if that will help.
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(05-28-2024, 03:53 AM)TerryRitchie Wrote: (05-21-2024, 09:52 AM)SMcNeill Wrote: (05-21-2024, 08:18 AM)a740g Wrote: This is awesome. Thanks!
Do you have a dump for the .net forum as well? The one we had before .org.
I'm afraid not. It was the loss of all the .net stuff that ended up turning me into the excessive backup hoarder that you see before you today. I have a copy of the qb64.net wiki from March 27th of 2015 if that will help.
That's a nice offer, but we're talking about the FORUMS, not the WIKI. What I've offered above is the old QB64.org Forums, in all their glory.
At one time, OldDosLover (if you remember him), sent me a backup of the original QB64.NET Forums -- but his crawler only copied 2 or 3 pages deep, which is basically the same as you could get from the Internet Archive Wayback Machine, so I didn't keep it.
All those lovely discussions, sample codes, ideas, history from the original forums... are lost in time now, as far as I know. Though, like a470g above, I'd love to get a copy of those, if anyone has them!
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(05-28-2024, 07:10 AM)SMcNeill Wrote: (05-28-2024, 03:53 AM)TerryRitchie Wrote: (05-21-2024, 09:52 AM)SMcNeill Wrote: I'm afraid not. It was the loss of all the .net stuff that ended up turning me into the excessive backup hoarder that you see before you today. I have a copy of the qb64.net wiki from March 27th of 2015 if that will help.
That's a nice offer, but we're talking about the FORUMS, not the WIKI. What I've offered above is the old QB64.org Forums, in all their glory.
At one time, OldDosLover (if you remember him), sent me a backup of the original QB64.NET Forums -- but his crawler only copied 2 or 3 pages deep, which is basically the same as you could get from the Internet Archive Wayback Machine, so I didn't keep it.
All those lovely discussions, sample codes, ideas, history from the original forums... are lost in time now, as far as I know. Though, like a470g above, I'd love to get a copy of those, if anyone has them! Has anyone reached out to Galleon to see if he has a copy archived?
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(05-21-2024, 01:10 PM)grymmjack Wrote: I wish we could get a database export. I tried to use the old one that I found on Archive.org (I think that was where you guys told me to get it...) but it was missing files it needed for MySQL to use the data. Are we in contact with the owner of this site still, and if so would they try to export it again with some guidance? Not like I'm a MySQL guru, but the files provided were actual disk files the /var/lib/mysql stuff. Would have been great if they were fully complete and included everything but it didn't. My hunch is that they were copied while the database was still running or something. Instead a mysqldump of the entire database would be the most accessible way to export, and allow anyone to use any RDBMs to mine the data. > Are we in contact with the owner of this site still...
Not the .net site. Rob (Galleon) let that go and presumably it got picked up by someone akin to a Russian hacker, or just some jerk who ruined it for whatever reason. Rob had posted a warning not to visit the site and especially not to log in. I don't know, what are 'they' going to do, steal your avatar? If they stole mine, they'd give it back, and pay me ransom!
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