[abandoned, outdated and now likely malicious qb64 dot net website - don’t go there] - is it still broken/faulty?

[keybone]

Awesome! I look forward to being able to download the archive. So much good stuff on .net, it's a shame Galleon let it go down.

[Richard]

Thanks Keybone for your interest.

I have started experimenting with one way to make information available (unofficially).

I am cheating by letting a screenshot of an archive page "freeload" onto a "post". Although you have not requested anything in particular yet - could you try the following for me:-?

On the QB64 home page - search for

[C_Sample_Programs-01

no spaces, underscores as included. The "C" will be a forced sequence character and does not relate to programming language "C".

Once search is finished, ignore the body of the post - just download the

[C_Sample…].png

file and view in say paint.

Looks like you will be my second "customer" (Steve was my first)

Thankyou in advance for trying my experiment - there are a few methods I am considering.







  [ You are not allowed to view this attachment ]  
[C_Sample_Programs-01___http''www.[abandoned, outdated and now likely malicious qb64 dot net website - don’t go there]].webarchive

[keybone]

Well, I found your screenshot and downloaded it.

Did you ever considered maybe sharing your archive folder over bittorrent?
In that case you wouldnt even need to combine them all into one file.
Also, once a few people download the whole thing then they can help share it.
With bittorrent, the more people sharing it at once the faster and more reliable the download is.

[luke]

If you can get the entire thing shared I'll see about making it available in a section of qb64.org

[keybone]

If you can get the entire thing shared I'll see about making it available in a section of qb64.org

That would be awesome. :)

[Richard]

@Luke

Thank you for your reply.

When you say "get the entire thing shared..." does that mean to have it uploaded to dropbox (or bittorent, gmail google cloud, etc) as thoughtfully mentioned by various members to me, first before you will consider to put onto qb64.org (officially)?

I am finalising (for myself) on the format of the file names for the archive files - it makes it a lot easier for me to manage the files. At present about 99% of my files are on the one usb stick - it may take considerable time to sort out (with Windows 10) on the remaining 1%.

I do not have a "credit rating" (equivalent) with any resource sharing site (eg dropbox) and I think I should be polite and tell those sites upfront of my archive (10,000 files total size 10 GB estimated).

I would prefer to have individual files to upload (rather than zipping them) - the advantage is that everyone would have access to them very much quicker, and my priority would be to service any specific requests where possible (eg Steve was my first "customer"). Disadvantage of this approach includes a hap-hazard uploading (totally illogical) but my file naming protocol would allow easy sorting.

There are a number of different file formats (for the contents of the files themselves) I am investigating. At the moment those I am considering include:-

.webarchive  (you can ask Steve for his opinion on this based on his original request)

.png  (screenshot of the emulated webpage - lends itself to quick "slide-show" possibility)

.txt (a "cheap and nasty" extraction of somewhat useable text from the .webarchive)

.??? ( format that PDS 7.1 BSAVE generates - might be handy for use in a QB64 program)
 
Some examples for you are :-

[A_Beginner's_Help-01___http፡⁄⁄www.[abandoned, outdated and now likely malicious qb64 dot net website - don’t go there]⁄forum⁄Beginners's␣Help].PNG

[A_Beginner's_Help-01___http፡⁄⁄www.[abandoned, outdated and now likely malicious qb64 dot net website - don’t go there]⁄forum⁄Beginners's␣Help].webarchive

[A_Beginner's_Help-01-C_Y_THIS_NO_WORKING___http፡⁄⁄www.[abandoned, outdated and now likely malicious qb64 dot net website - don’t go there]⁄forum⁄Beginners's␣Help].webarchive

[A_Beginner's_Help-52___http፡⁄⁄www.[abandoned, outdated and now likely malicious qb64 dot net website - don’t go there]⁄forum⁄Beginners's␣Help].PNG

[A_Beginner's_Help-52___http፡⁄⁄www.[abandoned, outdated and now likely malicious qb64 dot net website - don’t go there]⁄forum⁄Beginners's␣Help].webarchive

[A_Beginner's_Help-52-T_an_ip_address___http፡⁄⁄www.[abandoned, outdated and now likely malicious qb64 dot net website - don’t go there]⁄forum⁄Beginners's␣Help].webarchive

I am also considering to try to insert that ...index.php?topic=#####.# stuff also into the file name if I can correctly extract it from the files - to allow easier (I hope) search in the archives.

I like the speed of the QB64.org search engine to find say   _Beginner's_Help-52-T_   it leaves Windows 10 for dead on my laptop.

Richard

[jack]

I think a .webarchive is better than a png because if the there's a program listing you can copy and paste, not so with a png

[luke]

I need

@Luke

Thank you for your reply.

When you say "get the entire thing shared..." does that mean to have it uploaded to dropbox (or bittorent, gmail google cloud, etc) as thoughtfully mentioned by various members to me, first before you will consider to put onto qb64.org (officially)?

You need to get the data to me somehow.

The most efficient way is likely a compressed archive of the .webarchive files. I don't care if it's not organised or formatted. Text compressed quite well so something like 7zip should be able to get that down from 10GB to something more manageable.

Google Drive offers 15GB of space for free.