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Active Forums => QB64 Discussion => Topic started by: Fifi on September 10, 2018, 04:49:00 pm

Title: Status of [abandoned, outdated and now likely malicious qb64 dot net website - don’t go there] forum ?
Post by: Fifi on September 10, 2018, 04:49:00 pm: Hi all,

The question is in the title of this simple post.

Did we lost it forever with all its posts and code samples?

Is there any way to put all that forum content to another internet provider (I'm willing to pay for it on a dedicated web server)?

Cheers.
Fifi
Title: Re: Status of [abandoned, outdated and now likely malicious qb64 dot net website - don’t go there] forum ?
Post by: FellippeHeitor on September 10, 2018, 04:52:20 pm: Galleon still has the contents of the old forum but took the server down. The domain is still valid and he said he'll redirect to qb64.org and provide us with a copy of the old forum (without user accounts) for us to host in read-only mode.

The promisse is to have that happen soon. Can't put too much pressure on him though, as he's likely got other priorities, which is clearly understandable.
Title: Re: Status of [abandoned, outdated and now likely malicious qb64 dot net website - don’t go there] forum ?
Post by: Fifi on September 10, 2018, 05:03:43 pm: Hi again Fellippe,

I never ever blamed Galleon for its other priorities.

Just wanted to know if we could recover all the posts and code contributions and still say I'm willing to pay my rent for another provider.

Cheers.
Fifi
Title: Re: Status of [abandoned, outdated and now likely malicious qb64 dot net website - don’t go there] forum ?
Post by: Pete on September 10, 2018, 05:35:09 pm: My advice, go to one of the many "archive" sites and use WGET or cURL to copy those posts.

Pete
Title: Re: Status of [abandoned, outdated and now likely malicious qb64 dot net website - don’t go there] forum ?
Post by: FellippeHeitor on September 10, 2018, 05:54:11 pm: Quote from: Pete on September 10, 2018, 05:35:09 pm
My advice, go to one of the many "archive" sites and use WGET or cURL to copy those posts.

Pete

Forum pages are generated via php scripts server-side. You'll hardly ever find archives of actual post pages. The most I've been able to find was post listings, but no content archived whatsoever.
Title: Re: Status of [abandoned, outdated and now likely malicious qb64 dot net website - don’t go there] forum ?
Post by: Pete on September 11, 2018, 12:28:26 am: Well that leaves between now and April 16th, 2019 before the domain name expires to have the contents retrieved. Less time, of course, if the server fees come up for renewal before that date. Well, here's hoping.

Pete

- Hoping becomes hopping when you have 2-p.

Oh wait, here's something: https://web.archive.org/web/20160602055331/http://www.[abandoned, outdated and now likely malicious qb64 dot net website - don’t go there]:80/forum/index.php?topic=13162.0

And the index page... https://web.archive.org/web/20160531204515/http://www.[abandoned, outdated and now likely malicious qb64 dot net website - don’t go there]:80/forum/index.php

So I checked into that site a bit more this morning, and it's hit and miss to recover pages. For instance, this was available: http://[abandoned, outdated and now likely malicious qb64 dot net website - don’t go there]/forum/index.php?topic=119.0

So they do archive some posts though. I'm checking out there site map area, now... It's a bit hard to use, as it is a big graphics target you have to mouse your way around. Still, you can find "random" posts but picking apart the [abandoned, outdated and now likely malicious qb64 dot net website - don’t go there] index page at least shows you what the topic is, the wayback site map does not.
Title: Re: Status of [abandoned, outdated and now likely malicious qb64 dot net website - don’t go there] forum ?
Post by: Fifi on September 11, 2018, 01:16:14 pm: Hi all,

Is there any way to download QB64 versions prior to v1.0 and if yes, where ?

T.I.A.
Fifi
Title: Re: Status of [abandoned, outdated and now likely malicious qb64 dot net website - don’t go there] forum ?
Post by: FellippeHeitor on September 11, 2018, 01:22:44 pm: http://www.qb64.org/historical_qb64/
Title: Re: Status of [abandoned, outdated and now likely malicious qb64 dot net website - don’t go there] forum ?
Post by: TempodiBasic on September 11, 2018, 02:07:59 pm: IMHO
first of Qb64 1.0 there was QB64 SDL 0.954 and you can get this here
http://www.qb64sourcecode.com/Task1.html (http://www.qb64sourcecode.com/Task1.html)
and more closely here http://www.qb64sourcecode.com/qb64gametutorial.zip (http://www.qb64sourcecode.com/qb64gametutorial.zip)

I hope this is useful

Good Coding