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TGC has announced the forum is closing Feb 10 2025.
https://www.thegamecreators.com/post/tgc-account-system-retirement

It's believed at this time that the forums will remain available in read only mode for some time.
This means we don't know how long they will remain available, if at all.
Nobody will be able to download attachments, because that requires a login.
https://forum.thegamecreators.com/thread/229800#msg2678696

Where the community will continue:
I have setup a subreddit, with downloadable resources, addons, etc:
https://old.reddit.com/r/DarkBasicDev/
Everyone is welcome! All products!

SyntaxBomb has an active forum for AppGameKit:
https://www.syntaxbomb.com/appgamekit-agk/

TGC is running a Discord Server for AppGameKit:
https://discord.gg/bAKbpPUz2E

TGC is running a Discord Server for GameGuruMax:
https://discord.gg/uzPn6CFcCr

Unofficial Forum for all products TGC, forum setup by Teabone:
https://gamedevresort.freeforums.net/

Game Guru Classic Discord Server:
https://discord.com/invite/xnTAbBR

Call To Action - Help Wanted!
It is important that we gather up every plugin, every download we can before they become lost forever.
This includes files for other products like FPSC, DarkGDK, AppGameKit, Everything.
Please reach out on the subreddit and other places to be helpful. It matters!

The subreddit has Dark Basic Professional, DarkGDK, and FPSC files posted.
A few important guides for AppGameKit are there.
We hope to expand on this as we are still curating some of the files.

I don't have knowledge of the other TGC products and I'll need help finding and posting files worth preserving on the subreddit.

We need to make sure we can find each other after this and that we keep resources available!
Please help!

Forum Backups
A partial backup of the forum now exists, and is posted to the subreddit.
https://www.reddit.com/r/DarkBasicDev/comments/1ij4nsc/tgc_forum_backups_appgamekit_darkbasic_more/
The threads can now be searched and recalled offline.
Please spread this far and wide!


Special Thanks to those that helped and continue to help!
Phaelax
bitJericho
Evolved
Teabone
James H
Kuper
TheComet
And everyone else.


Thanks everyone! May we continue to be a community. Please reach out on the subreddit any time.
There are a few forum options such as Teabone's forum or maybe Syntax Bomb will open up space.
At least the subreddit is there to link things together and offer helpful, findable resources!

It has been an amazing 20+ years. It is sad to see an era end.
I guess we won't be getting that DBP patch we always were asking about!

Thank you so much and may the best be yet to come!
Good Luck!

Forum backups have been updated to include (we think) all pages, and have been linked with each other to make multi-page threads easier to read.

How did you archive the forum? I've been trying to do this but was blocked by the forum's cloudflare protection.

I noticed all of the forum threads have urls that are listed 1 to 230000.

So I wrote a program to create a text file with a list of all of the urls.
This would be the first page of every thread on the forum.

I then used the SingleFile plugin on Firefox to download all of the urls.
This took like a week or more day and night.

I then wrote a program that would read all of the downloaded pages, figure out the thread title, and forum category, sort them into the appropriate folders, and add an index url for that page in that category's index.
This was a little convoluted and the processing took about another week or more.
It wasn't just a matter of downloading but also indexing the forum.

Then I wrote a program to read all of the pages and to zero out public profile button links.

I then wrote a program to read all of those sorted thread pages, and figure out if those threads have additional pages, and create a big list of urls for those additional pages to be downloaded.
There was about a week of processing for this.

I then used the SingleFile plugin to download these pages.
Probably a few days to do this.

Then I wrote a program to read all of these pages, and sort them correctly with the already sorted pages.
That took a few more days around the clock.

Then I wrote a program to read all of the sorted thread pages, figure out if the thread has multiple pages, and modify the page links in the html to point to each other, so you can flip through the pages.
This took a few days.

Then I wrote a program to insert a line of javascript into each page restoring the codeblock functionality.

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This is an over simplification, since there was a lot more screwing around and backtracking to fix problems, then enhancing with one improvement over another.
It's basically been a 24/7 processing job from about Feb 18 to March 3. Just flipping through thread html files as fast as possible to process, and sort things.

Then each time it was all zipped up was like a 12 hour job.
It's also why if I have to fix something it takes like 3-7 days.