70's to Early 90's Computer Gaming General Links

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                  70's to Early 90's Computer Gaming General
                              Useful Links
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                                 WWW Links
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 http://www.twenex.org/ -  Sign-on to an authentic minicomputer system
 comprised of an RH20, an RP07, a TU77, and a KL10B running TOPS-20 MONITOR
 7.1

 http://sdf.org -  Create an account on the world's only public access super-
 computing centre. The FTP has a variety of mainframe and mini operating sys-
 tems and software.

 http://www.atarimuseum.com/computers/computers.html - The Atari Computer
 Museum.

 http://www.msx.org - Unofficial MSX community site.

 http://apple2history.org - A site detailing the history of the Apple ][
 series of computers.

 http://www.worldofspectrum.org - World of Spectrum, the definitive site for
 all Speccy resources.

 http://mercenaryforce.web.fc2.com - Database containing software for a wide
 range of microcomputers.

 http://hol.abime.net - The Hall of Light Amiga game database.

 http://retropc.net/alice/menu.html - Alicesoft games archive.

 http://www.oldskool.org/guides/tvdog/tandy1000.html - Tandy 1000x software
 and manuals.

 http://mijet.eludevisibility.org/XM6%20Pro-68k/XM6%20Pro-68k.html - Home
 page for the XM6 Pro-68k x68000 emulator.

 http://www.jcec.co.uk/index.html - The Japanese Computer Emulation Centre.

 http://tapes.c64.no - Commodore 64 tape archive.

 http://c64tapes.org - Commodore 64 tape, inserts, manuals, magazines and
 general resources

 http://csdb.dk/ - Commodore 64 cracks and demos

 http://asciiexpress.net/diskserver - Apple ][ disk server

 http://cyber1.org - Access the modern reincarnation of the historic PLATO
 network. Due to legal issues, when creating a sign-on you must at least
 pretend to use your real initials, after the sign-on is made you can change
 it to a nickname if you would prefer. Choose "Pioneer" group to play Multi-
 player games with /vr/. Ask in the thread if you're interested.

 http://www.s100computers.com/ - S100 history, schematics, warez and more.

 http://n8vem-sbc.pbworks.com - S100 and ECB homebrew community and mailing
 list. Must request access and provide a reason, mere interest is a perfectly
 fine reason, they usually respond to requests for access with in 12-24 hours
 [EDIT: Sadly, the owner could no longer maintain the site, all schematics
 for the S100 parts as well as the community at large has moved to
 the aforementioned s100computers site and mailinglist.]

 http://retropc.net/x68000/ - x68k drivers and software

 http://www.vx68k.org/vx68k - x68k emulator and resources

 http://www.vogonsdrivers.com - PC/XT/AT Drivers

 http://www.vogons.org/ - Retrocomputing community with a focus on early
 PC/XT/AT software

 http://www.eternal-september.org/ - Access to USENET via mail for the few
 who a. have an interest in using USENET for reasons other than piracy and
 obtaining illegal content and b. don't have a access to a system with USENET
 access (HINT HINT SDF). Please, please, please, follow netiqutte.

 http://cpc-live.com/data/index.php - Amstrad microcomputer resources

 http://club100.org/ - A TRS-80 Model 100 Users Group

 http://www.trs-80.com - A general TRS-80 resource site

 http://www.bombjack.org/commodore/ - Commodore software and manual archive

 http://dl.oldgamemags.com/ - Old game magazines.

 http://gona.mactar.hu/Commodore/monitor/Commodore_monitors_by_model_<break>
 number.html - Some Commodore monitor information.

 http://www.telnetbbsguide.com/dialbbs/dialbbs.htm - A list of dial-up BBSes
 that still operate. Local and long-distance rates may apply.

 http://www.livinginternet.com/u/uu_arch.htm - A USENET archive aggregate,
 includes content from DejaNews, GoogleGroups, and others.

 https://tools.ietf.org/ - Historical and working documents detailing
 standards for Internet communication. RFC's are found here.

 https://www.mediafire.com/?b7d0kdv3k71m6#j6zj55mmoqjvj - MSX Fan scan
 archive

 http://pcem-emulator.co.uk/ - An incredibly competent and massively under-
 rated general purpose PC hardware emulator. Does everything DOSBox does and
 more. (Needs BIOS files to work, see below)

 http://simh.trailing-edge.com/ - The oldest computer emulator in the world,
 it's been in development in one form or another since the early 1960's, and
 is still maintained today. Emulator historic mainframe, mini and very early
 microcomputer hardware including the Data General Nova series, the DEC PDP
 series, several early IBM computers, and the MITS Altair.

 http://msx.hansotten.com/ - MSX resources including magazines official and
 fan made manuals, and technical information on hardware and software

 http://www.pdp11.org/ - Unofficial site for the esteemed PDP11, contains
 several links to various resources for the DEC aficionado

 http://www.cpm.z80.de/ - Unofficial site for CP/M, with a focus on running
 it on the Z80 microprocessor, but also has resources for other architectures

 http://www.z80.info/ - Official site for the Z80 microprocessor, used
 extensively in microcomputers and embedded systems from 1976 all the way to
 today.

 http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~jg27paw4/ - Archive of several different
 Sinclair computer magazines, very nicely presented. Also has a separate,
 very large archive of type in programs.
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                                  FTPs
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 ftp://ftp.pigwa.net/stuff/ - Mostly DOS stuff

 ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/ - WoS's FTP

 ftp://ftp.cpcszene.de/ - Mostly CPC stuff, some DOS stuff

 ftp://ftp.idsoftware.com/ - id Software's FTP
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                                Newsgroups
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 See LivingInternet's USENET archive for archived posts. If you're just look-
 ing to read old USENET posts GoogleGroups is fine but it might be incomplete
 If you're looking to post, find a system that has USENET access or use
 eternalseptember to gain access to USENET via mail.

 It would be unfeasible to list every single retro newsgroup, even ones that
 are still active, so I've opted to describe the general structure as briefly
 as possible for those who are unaware, because newsgroups are really neat.

 There are 8 major "hierarchies" into which discussion on USENET is divided:
 comp.*, misc.*, news.*, rec.*, sci.*, soc.*, humanities.* and talk.*. There
 is another unofficial hierarchy called alt.*. The two hierarchies that are
 of interest for those using retrocomputer systems are comp.* which is
 dedicated to discussing computer hardware and software and rec.* which is
 dedicated to discussing games and recreation (i.e. computer games).

 In general, links to newsgroups for specific topics start broadly and narrow
 down. For instance: comp.sys.apple2.programmer is the bizarrely active news-
 group dedicated to programming on the Apple ][ computer. "comp" is the broad
 hierarchy, "sys" is a indicates that the newsgroup is focused on a specific
 computer system rather than an OS or piece of software, "apple2" indicates
 the specific computer system in question and "programmer" is the specific
 point of discussion regarding the specific computer system. It should be
 noted that not every newsgroup will have a 4th qualifier, as they were only
 added if the volume of discussion merited it (and now they're completely
 unchanging, which is why they don't always accurately reflect the scope of
 discussion maintained by modern participants, See: comp.os.cpm

 These days if you want to see if there's an active newsgroup for discussing
 whatever it is you want to discuss, you can simply find one through a search
 engine or asking on relevant Internet forums.
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                      IRC's and other chat communities
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 #/g/retro @ irc.rizon.net - The current unofficial IRC
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                  Warez and other dubiously legal resources
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 http://www.retroroms.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?post_id=57651 - Every
 BIOS file for the latest version of PCem
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