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Post by honkytonk on Apr 29, 2019 10:57:28 GMT
Why the topics of the old forum have disappeared can not we recover them?
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Post by tsh73 on Apr 29, 2019 14:08:38 GMT
Why:
because site
(www.conforums.com)
where old forum was working got closed.
Stuff still has the archives I believe.
Could it be restored for viewing? I dunno.
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Post by B+ on Apr 29, 2019 15:16:04 GMT
Would it hurt to revisit and discuss old topics again? I think not.  |
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Post by honkytonk on Apr 29, 2019 15:28:44 GMT
The text is not heavy in bytes.
it must be stored somewhere; but where ?
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Post by Rod on Apr 29, 2019 19:59:00 GMT
Yes but do you have the time to restructure and index 4gb of mostly rambling discussion? Where would you host it and how would folks search it? If you have the answer get in touch. If you just wish for what once was get on this forum and discuss your needs.
The last forum thrived on interesting questions and discussions. The same members persist so stop pining for what once was and start helping build the new forum.
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Post by carlgundel on Apr 30, 2019 13:24:21 GMT
Yes but do you have the time to restructure and index 4gb of mostly rambling discussion? Where would you host it and how would folks search it? If you have the answer get in touch. If you just wish for what once was get on this forum and discuss your needs. The last forum thrived on interesting questions and discussions. The same members persist so stop pining for what once was and start helping build the new forum. Having access to the old threads would be great because any information indexed by Google, Bing and other engines brings more visitors to our community. Just BASIC and Liberty BASIC have struggled along with a lot less traffic since the old forums and wikis disappeared.  So, any way to make the old material available is a benefit for us. |
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Post by ntech on Apr 30, 2019 15:40:52 GMT
Yes but do you have the time to restructure and index 4gb of mostly rambling discussion? Where would you host it and how would folks search it? If you have the answer get in touch. If you just wish for what once was get on this forum and discuss your needs. The last forum thrived on interesting questions and discussions. The same members persist so stop pining for what once was and start helping build the new forum. Having access to the old threads would be great because any information indexed by Google, Bing and other engines brings more visitors to our community. Just BASIC and Liberty BASIC have struggled along with a lot less traffic since the old forums and wikis disappeared. So, any way to make the old material available is a benefit for us. Try the internet archive bots: archive.fo/http://justbasic.conforums.com/*And archive.org/web, type in "justbasic.conforums.com" in the box and hit "Browse History." If you have the actual data, or can get your hands on it in some form (even the original PHP), it wouldn't take much to set up a scraper that can scrape all the data into a different format (CSV, XML, etc.) |
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Post by Rod on Apr 30, 2019 16:25:11 GMT
If it was within my skill set and power and hosting and bandwidth could be afforded it would be done by now. So my frustrations show. Sorry. Nothing is for free, which is why we are in the current predicament. So free, transient solutions don't interest me.
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Post by Rod on Apr 30, 2019 18:09:00 GMT
Alyce would I am sure confirm that 90% of the nuggets of gold are already preserved in the Liberty BASIC Programmers Encyclopedia. This is available online as Alyce is currently hosting and funding, a searchable copy. The LBPE has nearly everything a Liberty BASIC programmer needs.
But Carl needs coverage and I agree with that. The more fuss we make about Liberty/Just BASIC the better. I have reservations about the time and effort needed to make the old forum accessible. It was full of rambling double guesses and misleading asides. The LBPE captured the good stuff.
The more pertinent questions you ask here the better the replies. We still have gurus reading, just tempt them.
If you are having fun with Liberty/Just BASIC say so on as many online forum as you can get away with.
My next task is to put the new Chess program on a Raspberry Pi, 800x480 screen but doable.
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Post by carlgundel on Apr 30, 2019 21:48:44 GMT
If you are having fun with Liberty/Just BASIC say so on as many online forum as you can get away with. +1 !! Cool! |
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Post by honkytonk on May 1, 2019 9:38:24 GMT
I found the way by searching in members and their "recent posts-thread" (but snif  snif  for "recent", before it was "all"). |
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Post by ntech on May 3, 2019 16:34:39 GMT
My next task is to put the new Chess program on a Raspberry Pi, 800x480 screen but doable. I have a Raspberry Pi myself, but I've not been able to install JustBasic on it -- it has an ARM processor, and Wine doesn't run on it, without an x86 emulator to simulate an i686 environment. But I would love to see a JustBasic ARM build! |
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Post by carlgundel on May 5, 2019 0:03:15 GMT
My next task is to put the new Chess program on a Raspberry Pi, 800x480 screen but doable. I have a Raspberry Pi myself, but I've not been able to install JustBasic on it -- it has an ARM processor, and Wine doesn't run on it, without an x86 emulator to simulate an i686 environment. But I would love to see a JustBasic ARM build! The ARM version of LB5 is going to be free, so that's the closest you're going to get.  |
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Post by ntech on May 6, 2019 15:49:17 GMT
I have a Raspberry Pi myself, but I've not been able to install JustBasic on it -- it has an ARM processor, and Wine doesn't run on it, without an x86 emulator to simulate an i686 environment. But I would love to see a JustBasic ARM build! The ARM version of LB5 is going to be free Awesomel! I can't wait!  |
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Post by carlgundel on May 7, 2019 13:47:14 GMT
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snif 
for "recent", before it was "all").
