Dilwyn Jones via Ql-Users escribió/skribis/wrote/scrit 
(2025-09-12T15:22:16+0100):

> 1. The extension format seems to depend on how it's unzipped.

> I perform the zip using QDOS ZIP and my Zip Manager program in QPC2,
> with QDOS format enabled, so it should be putting "_bas" and "_scr"

So I guess QDOS zip tools adapt the filename extensions...  I have not
used them for a long time and did not remember that.

> I unzip using a Windows program (i.e. not in QDOS or SMSQE) it unzips
> with period extension no matter what I do.

That is the expected behaviour: extract the files with their actual
untouched filenames.

This is what I get from the zip archive on Debian, using the ordinary
unzip command-line tool:

```
BOOT        
DRACULA.ASC 
DRACULA.bas 
DRACULA.scr 
DRACULA.txt 
HINTS.txt   
MAP.txt     
SOLUTION.txt
```

But the filenames in <BOOT> do not match (extensions and case) the
actual ones.  See the relevant lines:

```superbasic
140 LBYTES drive$&'dracula_scr',131072
160 LRUN drive$ & 'DRACULA_bas'
```

Filename case is not an issue on Windows, but it is on Linux.  Not a big
problem.  Anyway, also the "win1_adv_" path has to be adapted or
configured in the emulator.

> http://cpmarchives.classiccmp.org//ftp.php?b=cpm/Software/UserGroups/
> 
> the DRACULA.BAS is to be on the "First Osborne Group" section, disk
> FOG138.

Thank you.  I didn't know that site.

> It looks like there's a lot of very old BASIC programs on there if you
> are interested in searching for something to convert to QL BASIC.

Yes, it's a treasure.  There is a very useful index with direct links to
the archives:

http://cpmarchives.classiccmp.org/trs80/Software/index_DirHTML.html

After several tries I downloaded all of its zip files containing
adventures in BASIC (170).

In case someone is interested, this the `wget` command I used on Debian:

```sh
wget --page-requisites --accept "*dvent*BAS*.zip" --recursive --level=3 
http://cpmarchives.classiccmp.org/trs80/Software/index_DirHTML.html
```
 
> I know there is also a DRACULA.BAS on the IF Archive, but it is a
> different Dracula game by a different author.

Yes, there are many such games from that time with similar "dracula"
titles.

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Marcos Cruz
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