Links to other planets
Some of the places I found particularly useful or just enjoyed visiting:
Amiga

www.amigalove.com
- Probably the best classic Amiga community site
www.retro32.com
- Online shop selling refurbished and recapped classic Amigas
www.amigalog.com
- Blog about AmigaDOS and other Amiga related topics
amigadev.elowar.com
- Amiga Hardware Reference Manual and other developer resources
www.reaktor.com/articles/crash-course-to-amiga-assembly-programming
- Assembly programming tutorial
www.coppershade.org
- Probably the best Amiga assembly programming tutorial by Photon of Scoopex
coppershade.org/articles/Code/Reference/...
- Custom Chip Registers
www.vikke.net
- Amiga Assembly programming tutorials
www.pjhutchison.org/tutorial/amiga_c.html
- Amiga C Beginner programming tutorials
retrogamecoders.com/installing-amos-basic
- AMOS Basic beginner tutorial
www.makerhacks.com/amiga-amos-shootemup-game
- AMOS Basic shoot-em-up game tutorial
www.ultimateamiga.co.uk/index.php/page,16.html
- AMOS Factory, books, downloads, community forum
docs.amiblitz.de/blitzprogrammers/0001.html
- Blitz Basic 2.1 guide
classicwb.abime.net
- Preconfigured Workbench system
edgeemu.net
- Emulator ROMs for various retro computers and consoles
www.amiga-stuff.com
- Amiga hardware and software resource site, books, repair manuals, documentation
commodore.bombjack.org/amiga
- Commodore, Atari, Mac magazines, books and user guides
www.particles.org/particlesbbs
- Particles BBS homepage
www.nightfallcrew.com/hiddenpower-bbs
- Nightfall BBS homepage
ftp.funet.fi/pub/amiga
- Funet FTP server of freely distributable Amiga files
ftp2.grandis.nu/turran
- The ultimate FTP server for Amiga retro enthusiasts
datagubbe.se
- Personal page on computers, technology, the demoscene and the Amiga
www.stoeggl.com/amiga
- ADF Sender Terminal
brutalamiga.mikendezign.com
- Brutal's Amiga links site
l8r.net/install
- Installer's Heaven, install disks
levosretrocomputerprojects.co.uk
- Levo's retro computer projects
blog.worldofjani.com
- Recap parts and capacitor lists for retro tech
www.amigawiki.org/doku.php?id=de:models:a1200
- Amiga 1200 schematics and parts/assembly list
16-bits.org/pt2.php
- ProTracker & FastTracker II clones for modern operating systems
blog.glyphdrawing.club/amiga-ascii-art
- All about Amiga ASCII art
www.ianstedman.co.uk/amiga-scart-guide/amiga-ascii-art
- How the Amiga RGB port works and how to build an RGB to SCART cable
github.com/c0pperdragon/AmigaYPbPrAdapter
- Build your own RGB-to-Component adapter
lyonsden.net
- A blog about Commodore 8-bit & 16-bit computers and retro tech

Consoles (Nintendo and Sega)

techdocs.exodusemulator.com/Console/SegaMegaDrive/Documentation.html
- Mega Drive/Genesis documentation, development docs
coranac.com/tonc/text/toc.htm
- Tonc - Game Boy Advance programming tutorial
problemkaputt.de/gbatek.htm
- GBA and NDS programming references
github.com/GValiente/butano
- GBA C++ game engine
forums.nesdev.org
- NES and SNES retro developer forum
nindb.net
- The unofficial Nintendo archive
www.gbstudio.dev
- Game Boy game creator
nickfa.ro/index.php/HUGETracker
- Music Tracker for making Game Boy music
dreampipe.net/updates
- Dreamcast browser friendly bulletin board, DLCs and stuff

Macintosh

obsolete.macfixer.com/vintage-software
- Vintage Mac Software Library
www.macintoshrepository.org
- Software for Classic Macs
macintoshgarden.org
- Macintosh abandonware archive
macgui.com
- Classic Mac files and discussions
vintageapple.org
- Vintage Mac books, magazines, manuals, boot disks, drivers
68kmla.org
- 68k Mac discussion board
www.applefool.com/se30
- The Classic Mac Networking guide
www.jagshouse.com/classicinternet.html
- Internet on Classic Macs
www.earlymacintosh.org
- Apple Macintosh before System 7
lowendmac.com
- Home of vintage Mac stuff
www.icab.de/download.html
- iCab Web Browser
www.retrotechnology.com
- Herb's retro technology and Mac pages
infinitemac.org
- Mac emulator in your browser
knight.sc/software/2020/04/19/classic-macos-development.html
- Classic MacOS development with an emulator
mac-classic.com
- Classic Mac news, articles, downloads
machut.net
- Vintage Mac software archives and SE/30 forever
cornica.org
- Quicktime movies for old machines
www.rescuemyclassicmac.com
- Get boot and application disks for your Classic Mac
system7today.com/
- System 7 users' homepage
68k.preterhuman.net
- 68k Macintosh software collection

MS-DOS and Windows

www.vogons.org
- Vintage PC, DOS & Windows community
www.lanet.lv/simtel.net/msdos/index-msdos.html
- MS-DOS utilities collection
www.ericexperiment.com
- Personal site of Old'aVista's creator with Windows 3.x and Dreamcast stuff
escargot.chat
- Use MSN Messenger again. New servers for the old client

www.windowsupdaterestored.com
- A community-based project aimed at restoring the old Windows Update websites for Windows 95, NT4, 98, Me, 2000, and XP

http://legacyupdate.net
- Reviving the Windows Update service for 2000 and XP

hw-museum.cz
- PC hardware museum
vetusware.com
- The biggest free MS-DOS abandonware collection
homeoftheunderdogs.net
- Underrated PC games

forum.agoraroad.com
- Agora Road's Macintosh cafe
forum.melonland.net
- Melonland Forum
spacehey.com
- SpaceHey, A space for friends
basementcommunity.com
- Basement community Forums
ichi.city
- A community of small webpages
www.imood.com
- Set and share your mood, keep in touch with others
status.cafe
- Share your status

Search engines and link sites

www.oldavista.com
- Old'aVista search personal sites and web archives
wiby.me
- Search engine for personal pages
search.marginalia.nu/
- Search engine for non-commercial pages
www.frogfind.com
- DuckDuckGo search in simple HTML for vintage computers
68k.news
- News for vintage computers
theoldnet.com
- Huge collection of new and old simple websites
github.com/ssshake/retro-computing-internet-resources
- Retro computing internet resources
directory.sloop.nz
- Web directory of accessible pages on vintage and modern computers
www.oldgamesfinder.com
- Search engine for old games
Music

everynoise.com
- The ultimate music discovery of every genre
music.ishkur.com
- Timeline of electronic music
modarchive.org
- Huge collection of music modules
musicmap.info
- A map of all music genres
Games

indieretronews.com
- Indie Retro Games News
vim-adventures.com
- Learn VIM while playing a game
thefrugalgamer.net
- Personal site mostly about games
nivrig.com
- Turbo Tomato, Rouge Declan and other new Amiga games
pixelglass.org
- New Amiga games and the Scorpion game engine
cheats.macintosh.garden
- Cheats & walkthroughs for MacOS games
iroiro.neocities.org
- Retro Anime and Videogames
grumpygamer.com
- Ron Gilbert's page, creator of Maniac Mansion, Monkey Island and others
www.deco.franken.de
- Sonic the Hedgehog comics and media fan site

www.planetemu.net
- Emulators, games, ROMS for Consoles, Microcomputers and Arcade machines

Graphics and web design

www.zer0rei.com
- Fantastic 3D CG wallpapers
fabiensanglard.net
- Interesting personal site about computer graphics
2bit.neocities.org
- Website about 2-bit graphics and stuff
cyber.dabamos.de/88x31
- A huge collection of 88x31 gif buttons
anlucas.neocities.org/88x31Buttons
- More than 700 88x31 gif buttons from the 90s and 00s
99imageshop.neocities.org
- Animated images for webpages
gifcities.org
- Internet Archive's gif search
realfavicongenerator.net
- Favicon generator
8bitworkshop.com/dithertron
- Convert image to dithered retro computer style
doodad.dev/dither-me-this
- Dithering tool
bghq.com/index.php
- Sprite backgrounds
www.spriters-resource.com
- Sprites and sprite sheets
1041uuu.tumblr.com
- Japanese slice of life pixel art
pyxeledit.com
- Pixel art and tileset editor
saint11.org/blog/pixel-art-tutorials
- Pixel art tutorials
www.posemaniacs.com
- Royalty free 3D pose references for artists
graphic.neocities.org
- Bonnibell's gif collection

Other interesting and fun stuff

oldweb.today
- Experience the web on old browsers (MacOS, Windows, Linux)
www.starringthecomputer.com
- Website about computers appearing in movies and television
kaomoji.ru/en
- Japanese text emoticon collection

acme.com
- Unix freeware stuff, online since 1991

www.fogcam.org
- The world's oldest webcam, online since 1994

www.floodgap.com
- Cameron Kaiser's personal page about vintage tech

www.floodgap.com/retrobits/ckb/
- Floodgap's Commodore 8-Bit Knowledge Base
classreal.com
- The mindfuck movies list
gogetspoiled.com
- Intentional spoilers for movies
michaelbach.de/ot
- Visual Phenomena and Optical illusions by Michael Bach
userinyerface.com
- The worst practice in UI experiment
github.com/jwasham/coding-interview-university
- A complete study plan to become a software engineer
coderprog.com
- Programming books
sci-hub.se
- Unrestricted access to all scientific knowledge ever published
cheapskatesguide.org
- How to buy and maintain computers and internet services on a budget
www.webdesignmuseum.org/early-websites
- Exhibition from the early days of the Internet till the mid-00s.
pinch.com/tweak
- Test charts for CRT Monitor Tweaking
toobnix.org/c/peron_channel/videos?s=1
- Peron's retro computer videos and ads channel
www.000webhost.com
- Free web hosting
home.macintosh.garden
- Free Mac web hosting
pages.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar
- Historical Returns on Stocks, Bonds and Bills from 1928
www.retroreversing.com/tutorials/introduction
- Beginner's guide in Reverse Engineering retro games
www.techspot.com/article/1821-how-cpus-are-designed-and-built
- How CPU's are designed and built
oldcomputers.net
- Steve's old computer museum
www.retro8bitcomputers.co.uk
- 8-bit computers, peripherals, manuals
zxart.ee
- ZX Spectrum games, music, art, community
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