Links

Retro Computer Youtube links:

• The BBC’s Micro Live show gets hacked
• ITV’s Database programme at the Earls Court Computer Show
• Channel Four’s “4 Computer Buffs” – optical data interface experiment
• The Amiga debuts on Micro Live
• An early Eighties US Atari 2600 advert – one of many bizarre ads :)

“Post-Modern” Computer Hardware Scene:

• Jim Bagley’s PropGFX system
• Chris Smith’s Harlequin project – ZX Spectrum in discrete logic
• Dennis van Weeren’s Minimig project – Amiga on a FPGA
• C-One: A super-charged Commodore 64
• Arcade machines put on a single chip
• CPC TREX – A seriously souped up Amstrad

Retro graphics:

• Mark’s Pixel Art tutorial

Computer / Console software emulation:

• Spectrum:
•  World Of Spectrum (emulators, software – everything!)
• C64:
•  WinVice (emulator), “C64.com” (software etc)
• Amiga:
•  WinUAE (emulator)
•  Cloanto’s “Amiga Forever” Amiga preservation project
• Megadrive:
•  Gens (emulator)
• Snes:
•  Snes9x (emululator)
• Arcade:
•  MAME (Windows GUI version emulator link)

Computer “museums”:

• Old-computers.com – Excellent – Very comprehensive.
  
• Oldcomputers.net – More US-centric but also good.
  

8 Bit Nostalgia:

•  C64HQ – Interviews with C64 coders / musicans etc
•  Lemon64 – Loads of info on C64 games etc

Retro remakes:

•  Retrospec – Game remakes
•  Remix.kwed.org – C64 SID music remakes

Modern demo scene:

•  Monostep.org
•  Scene.Org