First batch uploaded. With the copy/paste posts, that brings the total up to 7,995 VB6 posts, with full source code.
For this first batch, there are 219 zips that didn't make it, and those posts have been hidden on-site. I'll have to manually chase down those oddballs, but when I find them, I'll upload them as well.
Any questions, comments, concerns, bitches, complaints, whatever, drop me a message either via PM here, or through the contact form on the site.
There are 1,191 pages of posts. The first 64 or so are either posted by site members, or archived from no-longer-operational sites. This link (from the tutorial page) will give you an alphabetical listing, if you prefer that.
As mentioned on the front page, the search field on the top line is your friend. However, if you have a suggestion as to a better method to browse the library, let me know, and I'll do what I can to implement it.
An observation (just to suggest an improvement): I think you should strip out from the indexed words parentheses (and maybe other punctuation marks too).
I tested searching for Screen Saver to see if "(Screen Saver) diffuseGravity" appeared in the results and it didn't.
But I don't know how they are indexed because searching for "Saver)" it appears, but for "(Screen" it doesn't. Still, "(Screen Saver" does.
An observation (just to suggest an improvement): I think you should strip out from the indexed words parentheses (and maybe other punctuation marks too).
I tested searching for Screen Saver to see if "(Screen Saver) diffuseGravity" appeared in the results and it didn't.
But I don't know how they are indexed because searching for "Saver)" it appears, but for "(Screen" it doesn't. Still, "(Screen Saver" does.
Thank you for the input; constructive and informative. I'll get to work on it this afternoon.
I like the site design, and the search is fast. It seems better than the original.
You'll have to find a way to control spam in the comments, if you don't already have one, I think.
Thank you for the kind words. I am always looking for ways to improve things, so let me know if you find anything that you don't like, either here in a PM, or through the contact form on the website.
As far as the comments go, all comments are moderated. You'd be amazed at the number of replica watch BS comments I get in there.
I failed to follow the thread (work...) and found them on webarchive already (there's a reddit about data hoarding, found them there), but just wanted to say a huge "thank you" to yoiu sir, an unsung hero
really, thanks. The more live link we get the better. They're going to my personal archive anyways
as for viewing them, i'm using the original tool (it's bad...) with the .mdb value hack for now
Thank you for the kind words. I am always looking for ways to improve things, so let me know if you find anything that you don't like, either here in a PM, or through the contact form on the website.
Originally Posted by FortyPoundHead
As far as the comments go, all comments are moderated. You'd be amazed at the number of replica watch BS comments I get in there.
A few hours ago, I opened the link www.FortyPoundHead.com from my computer, and the browser popped up a message saying that I was attacking your website and my IP address was banned.
I'd like to know why this happens? Is there a "false alarm" in your website defense system? Looking forward for your response, thanks.
A few hours ago, I opened the link www.FortyPoundHead.com from my computer, and the browser popped up a message saying that I was attacking your website and my IP address was banned.
I'd like to know why this happens? Is there a "false alarm" in your website defense system? Looking forward for your response, thanks.
Best wishes
SDO
Edit: never mind sending me your IP address. I was able to comb the logs and find you. Part of the Gatekeeper is blocking known "bad neighborhoods". The netblock you were accessing from is one of those. However, I removed the netblock from the list, as well as removed your IP address from the ban list. You should be able to get there now.
Just for knowledge, there are a series of scripts that I call GateKeeper that monitor traffic in the site. Sometimes the script scores a visit to highly, and bans the IP address. The user is presented with a message, and a remediation method. BUT, unless I have something to key on, like an IP address or general time, I can't see why you were blocked, and how to remediate it.
Last edited by FortyPoundHead; Sep 4th, 2020 at 02:10 PM.
Hi FortyPoundHead
Just an idea, could you make it so page 1 is the newest code added and page 1191 is the oldest.
Similar to the origonal PSC
Would be good to see new code added 1st.
tks
Done. Note that the original PSC database had no "date posted" field, so they all show as the same date (2002-06-01). New posts by users will show up at the top of the list, then get bumped down as more posts get added.
Last edited by FortyPoundHead; Sep 4th, 2020 at 02:26 PM.
I unpacked .iso 7_2009-2012 with my own program, which for some reason they were afraid to use because of false positives of some antivirus programs and placed it on a google disk: <link removed as it contained compiled code>
Last edited by Shaggy Hiker; Sep 5th, 2020 at 01:28 PM.
I unpacked .iso 7_2009-2012 with my own program, which for some reason they were afraid to use because of false positives of some antivirus programs and placed it on a google disk: Link removed as it contained compiled code
Thanks for sharing that,
Rob
Last edited by Shaggy Hiker; Sep 5th, 2020 at 01:29 PM.
Anyone could do it. I gave the program. The database contains codes in text format without zip files.
The CD 6_2008-2009 database does not have the same zip file names with CD names. Have you tried installing the disc and working with its viewer?
Ok, here’s my contribution. It’s basically, all the files from all the following CDs:
1_2002.ISO
2_2002-2004.ISO
3_2004-2005.ISO
4_2005-2006.ISO
5_2007-2008.ISO
6_2008-2009.ISO
7_2009-2012.ISO
All of the *.PSC files within those were converted to *.ZIP files. About 6 of the PSC files were corrupted and were just skipped.
After all the *.PSC files were converted to *.ZIP files, they were scanned with Windows Defender (latest libraries). About 10 files (EXEs, DLLs, etc) were found with viruses. Those specific
files (not the entire ZIP) were deleted from the ZIP files. Then, everything was re-scanned and found to be clean.
Link removed pending some internal discussions contains the following files:
(Ok, I've done further cleaning and received VBForums' approval. Here's the codebank entry for the link to the files.)
AllThePscZipFilesZipped.zip – The “clean” set of zip files, 13,852 of them.
ZipFileIndex.tsv – A file with tab-separated columns with one row per file. The 3 columns are zip file name, title (from @PSC file within), description (from @PSC file within).
ZipFileIndex.xlsx – Same as the above but in an Excel format.
Notes.txt– Basically just a reiteration of stuff I've said in this post.
I’ve got no idea if the moderators will leave this link or not, because, in all honesty, there are still executables in the zipped zips. They’ve all been scanned, but I take no responsibility for any of this. Also, where possible, I’d still toss those and recompile with the source code.
And FortyPoundHead, what you’ve done is really nice. This is just another alternative repository.
Best Regards,
Elroy
Last edited by Elroy; Sep 7th, 2020 at 12:12 PM.
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How about putting it all on GitHub or GitLab and linking to that? You can set up a free GitLab repo (and possibly GitHub if you are below a certain size...which you might not be). We don't want compiled code in zip files on this site, and have consistently removed them when they were reported....so I guess I have to remove that link...but this is clearly something that is going away unless you preserve it somehow, and also is clearly of considerable interest to this community. GitLab seems like the best option for that within the rules that we've had for a time.
Well, personally, I took a look at the database, but thought I'd focus on the source code.
I just took a look at GitLab and immediately ran into a size-limitation on the free version. So, I'll just wait to see what the moderators decide regarding this.
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How big are these files? At my job, we just went with GitLab because we wouldn't reach the size limit, though I forget what it was. I thought it pretty large, while GitHub was somewhat smaller, but I wasn't the one doing that research.
The largest file, which is just a zip of the ~13,000 zip files is 2.29 GB (2,467,143,680 bytes).
EDIT: And that's really the only file that matters. I've also got two other files which are just TSV and XLSX files that serve as indexes to the ~13,000 files.
EDIT2: Just as an FYI, Windows Defender definitely scans within ZIP files. And, before I zipped them all together (leaving them as ~13,000 individual ZIP files), I scanned them and they came back clean (after some clean-up).
Last edited by Elroy; Sep 5th, 2020 at 07:24 PM.
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Shaggy, I'm just brainstorming here, but how about if I just post the http:// text (without it actually being a link)? They'd have to copy-paste to get there.
EDIT: I thought about doing it all through PMs, but I'm really not willing to worry about sending PMs to all who want it.
Another EDIT: I also thought about uploading it to my personal website, but I don't really see how that's much different than having it on Google Drive.
Yet Another: And just FYI, these are the files I'm trying to give people access to:
Also, if you like, you're certainly willing to grab them, and just host them on VBForums if you like. I want/need no credit. All I did was convert them to ZIP files, create an index, and clean out any viruses.
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And, just for grins, here's what a small section of the inside of that AllThePscZipFilesZipped.zip looks like:
Last edited by Elroy; Sep 5th, 2020 at 07:31 PM.
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I've also got two other files which are just TSV and XLSX files that serve as indexes to the ~13,000 files.
I could not find a match between the file names written in the ZipFilePath field of the PscEnc.mdb database and the file names in the Zips folder of the CD.
Apparently, when installing, for example, VB_Volume3.EXE, the names change.
Personally, to create my index files, I just wrote a VB6 routine that opened each of the ~13,000 zip files, examined the @PSC_ReadMe... file, and then copied the Title and Description out of them.
I'll attach the TSV files I created. I can't see how they'd complain about that being distributed, being ASCII. And, I have confidence that they'll work out a way for us to distribute everything.
Today, I might write another procedure to just see how many EXE, DLL, & OCX files we're talking about. I'm confident that there are no longer any viruses (in my copy), but there still shouldn't be any reason for these.
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I had to split the ZipFileIndex.tsv into two files, even zipped, to meet the attachment limit of one meg.
Last edited by Elroy; Sep 6th, 2020 at 12:15 PM.
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That's only 2.4 GB, right? Is that really too big for the free version of GitHub or GitLab? It's been a while since I looked, to be fair, but I thought GitHub would do that as long as it was a public repo, and this would certainly be public.