This post is to provide a link to the Planet Source Code files. The link is basically the Google Drive portion of an alt Gmail account that I seldom use. In fact, prior to this, I wasn't using the Google Drive portion at all. And now, these PSC files are all that's out there.
Just as an FYI, I worked with Shaggy Hiker and FunkyDexter to get this going, and to stay within the TOS of VBForums.
This is basically the files from all the following CD mounted disks from PSC:
Regarding PSC uploads more recent than these, I've got no idea how to recover those. If someone does, I'd be delighted to include them with what I've got.
All of the PSC files within the mounted ISO files were converted to ZIP files. About 6 of the PSC files were corrupted, so those were not converted to ZIP files (and discarded).
Once this was done, all these ZIP files were scanned with Windows Defender. About 10 of the ZIP files were found to contain viruses. The specific files with viruses within the ZIP files were identified and deleted.
Then, all the ZIP files (and further nested ZIP files) were scanned for the existence of any of these file types:
And, in all cases, those were deleted from the ZIP files (and from nested ZIPs).
At this point, what remained was mostly source code files, and some TXT files, and various garbage files like LOG, TMP, VBW. etc.
Even having done all of this, I take no responsibility for any of the contents of any of these files. Use at your own discretion.
Also, as a further note, when downloading VB6 source code, if it's got a VBW file, it's always advisable to delete this file as it's not needed, and has a small potential for causing harm.
Also, as with any source code you download, it's advisable to visually peruse it to make sure it's not doing anything you'd rather not do.
Here's the link.
The Notes.txt file is basically another copy of the text in this post.
The ZipFileIndex.tsv and ZipFileIndex.xlsx are files that index all the ZIP files in the AllThePscZipFilesZipped.zip file.
There are three columns in these index files:
Just as an FYI, this represents 13,852 separate projects. However, many aren't worth much, but some of them are probably gems.
There are also files out there named PscDatabase.mdb and AllThePscPictures.zip. The PscDatabase.mdb is just the original PSC database. There is no code in this file. It's just the tables from the original PSC database. The AllThePscPictures.zip is just all the pictures from the CDs (GIFs and JPGs only) all zipped into one zip file. Using the database, there is a way to relate these pictures to their respective projects, but you're on your own regarding that.
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Changes:
Sept 14, 2020: The PscDatabase.mdb I originally had out there wasn't the one from the 7th (last) CD. These databases were cumulative, so the one from the 7th CD should have everything. I changed the database in the link to be this 7th (last) database. It was also checked, and it contains no code. Also, the empty Bookmark and UseCount tables were just deleted from it. There were also two strange queries in it, and I deleted those as well.
Sept 15, 2020: Added three new files: NewerZipFilesZipped.zip, NewerZipFileIndex.tsv, & NewerZipFileIndex.xlsx. All the ZIP files in NewerZipFilesZipped.zip went through the same rigorous process of the original ZIP files (scanned for viruses (none found) and all binaries deleted (including inside nested ZIP files)). The index files are organized exactly like the others. These are 333 projects from PSC since 2012 in these files. They were contributed by a source who prefers to stay anonymous.
Just as an FYI, I worked with Shaggy Hiker and FunkyDexter to get this going, and to stay within the TOS of VBForums.
This is basically the files from all the following CD mounted disks from PSC:
- 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
Regarding PSC uploads more recent than these, I've got no idea how to recover those. If someone does, I'd be delighted to include them with what I've got.
All of the PSC files within the mounted ISO files were converted to ZIP files. About 6 of the PSC files were corrupted, so those were not converted to ZIP files (and discarded).
Once this was done, all these ZIP files were scanned with Windows Defender. About 10 of the ZIP files were found to contain viruses. The specific files with viruses within the ZIP files were identified and deleted.
Then, all the ZIP files (and further nested ZIP files) were scanned for the existence of any of these file types:
- EXE
- DLL
- OLB
- OCX
- OCA
- OBJ
- EX_
- OC_
- DL_
And, in all cases, those were deleted from the ZIP files (and from nested ZIPs).
At this point, what remained was mostly source code files, and some TXT files, and various garbage files like LOG, TMP, VBW. etc.
Even having done all of this, I take no responsibility for any of the contents of any of these files. Use at your own discretion.
Also, as a further note, when downloading VB6 source code, if it's got a VBW file, it's always advisable to delete this file as it's not needed, and has a small potential for causing harm.
Also, as with any source code you download, it's advisable to visually peruse it to make sure it's not doing anything you'd rather not do.
Here's the link.
The Notes.txt file is basically another copy of the text in this post.
The ZipFileIndex.tsv and ZipFileIndex.xlsx are files that index all the ZIP files in the AllThePscZipFilesZipped.zip file.
There are three columns in these index files:
- the ZIP file name
- the title from the @PSC file within the ZIP file
- the description from the @PSC file within the ZIP file
Just as an FYI, this represents 13,852 separate projects. However, many aren't worth much, but some of them are probably gems.
There are also files out there named PscDatabase.mdb and AllThePscPictures.zip. The PscDatabase.mdb is just the original PSC database. There is no code in this file. It's just the tables from the original PSC database. The AllThePscPictures.zip is just all the pictures from the CDs (GIFs and JPGs only) all zipped into one zip file. Using the database, there is a way to relate these pictures to their respective projects, but you're on your own regarding that.
---------------
Changes:
Sept 14, 2020: The PscDatabase.mdb I originally had out there wasn't the one from the 7th (last) CD. These databases were cumulative, so the one from the 7th CD should have everything. I changed the database in the link to be this 7th (last) database. It was also checked, and it contains no code. Also, the empty Bookmark and UseCount tables were just deleted from it. There were also two strange queries in it, and I deleted those as well.
Sept 15, 2020: Added three new files: NewerZipFilesZipped.zip, NewerZipFileIndex.tsv, & NewerZipFileIndex.xlsx. All the ZIP files in NewerZipFilesZipped.zip went through the same rigorous process of the original ZIP files (scanned for viruses (none found) and all binaries deleted (including inside nested ZIP files)). The index files are organized exactly like the others. These are 333 projects from PSC since 2012 in these files. They were contributed by a source who prefers to stay anonymous.