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| DOSBox |
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DOSBox - Completely emulates an older
x86 PC with DOS. A good solution for running older DOS games that will not run right on today's fast computers
that have no real DOS. Also works for other platforms, such as Linux and Mac. Free. |
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DOSBox Sourceforge Page -
The project page for DOSBox on SourceForge. |
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DOSBoxWiki - The official DOSBox
Wiki. A good resource for help with DOSBox. |
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DOSBox Forums - Official
forums for DOSBox. |
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DOSBox
Guides - Guides for the DOSBox newbie. |
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DOSBox CVS Builds (also see the official DOSBox
CVS builds thread on VOGONS): |
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AEP DOSBox CVS Builds
- Clean DOSBox CVS Builds. |
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Ykhwong's builds - Windows build incorporates
vasyl's experimental emulation of various SVGA chipsets, OpenGL-HQ, Direct3D, Glide emulation, Munt (MT-32
emulation), Improved IPX support, Virtual Printer support, PhysFS support (to mount .zip files) and the
Overscan Border patch |
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rcblanke's (Windows
and Ubuntu Linux builds available) - The author of the DBGL
has Win32 and Ubuntu builds of DOSBox based on a recent copy from the DOSBox CVS. |
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Gulikoza's builds - gulikoza's (Windows)
build includes CoreSwitch, Direct3D, Munt, OpenGLHQ, AdLib optimization, VGAParts |
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h-a-l-9000 - Different builds with various
patches included. |
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Moe's Bar - Linux builds that include addkey,
AdLib optimize, Innovation SSI-2001, Self-Modifying-Code optimizations, SVGA chipsets, CD-Image cycling,
Glide emulation and Printer emulation |
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DOSBox Frontends (a GUI for DOSBox):
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DBGL - DOSBox Game
Launcher, an open-source, multi-platform frontend for DOSBox. by Ronald
Blankendaal (rcblanke on
VOGONS). |
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D.O.G. - Frontend for Windows by ErikGG.
Along with DBGL one of the two most developed frontends. |
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D-Fend - The former champ of DOSBox frontends
for Windows by Mabus Raeen. No longer in active development. |
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DBoxFE - Frontend for
Linux/Windows. |
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Dosboxfront -
Frontend for OS/2. |
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DOSShell - Frontend for Windows
by Loonies Software Group. |
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DOSBOXer
- Win,Linux,Mac OS X frontend by Jaeger Technologies. |
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Boxer Frontend
- Frontend for Windows. |
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Petit dosbox - Frontend
for Mac OS X by Guillermo Enrich. |
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RobyDOSBox - Frontend
for Windows. |
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Radnor - Frontend for Mac OS X. |
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DOSBoxGui - Frontend written in
Tcl/Tk. |
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DBFrontend - Frontend for
Windows by Peter Klauer. |
| Audio Emulators |
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VDMSound: |
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VDMSound 2.1.0 PUBLIC BETA
- WARNING: Do not install on a Windows NT 4 system. A free soundcard
emulator for DOS based programs or games on a NT based Operating system (2000, XP) by Vlad Romascanu. Released
under the the GNU
General Public License. This version has a unified installer (also installs VDMS LaunchPad) of the next
version of VDMS. |
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Win9x + VDMSound ALPHA
- A very early development of a version of VDMS for Windows 95, 98 and ME. Has no GUI. Use only if you are
comfortable with writing batch files. NOTE: Most Windows 9x users will be better off installing DOS drivers
for their sound cards. |
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Beginner's guide to VDMSound
v2.10 - A guide for those that need help using VDMS. |
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VDMSound Forums - Forums for
VDMSound. |
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Roland MT-32: |
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MT-32 Emulator Project
- Software emulator of the Roland MT-32 Sound Module, what much of the early Sierra game music was designed
to be played on. This project has been merged with MUNT. |
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MUNT - A multi-platform
software synthesizer emulating pre-GM MIDI devices such as the MT-32. |
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MT-32 Emulator Project Forums
- Official forums for the MT-32 Emulator Project. |
| Other Emulators &
Virtualizers: |
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Flopper - A bootable-disk emulator
-- it reads a diskette image file and boots it. (Remember that DOSBox can boot from images, too. |
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Qemu - An emulator for various
CPUs. It works on Linux, Windows, FreeBSD and Mac OS X. Windows version is in an alpha stage. |
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Qemu Manager - provides quick control
of the QEMU Emulator for win32. |
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Virtual
PC - The x86 emulator originally developed by Connectix and since bought out by Microsoft. MS now
offers it for free download. |
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Bochs - Bochs is an open source x86 PC
emulator that runs on most popular platforms. |
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VMware - Proprietary virtualization software for
x86-compatible computers, including VMware Workstation and the freeware VMware Server and VMware Player.
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Apple II Emulator Resource Guide
- Apple ][: |
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Basilisk - Mac: Avery good
free Mac (pre-PowerMac only) emulator. |
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Munt - A multi-platform software
synthesiser emulating pre-GM MIDI devices such as the MT-32 and CM-32L. |
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MT-32 Emulator Project - The original
MT-32 project page. Has since been superceded by Munt. |
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Project 64 - A Nintendo 64 emulator.
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| AGI Games: |
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NAGI - A new, easy to use SCI interpreter
by Nick Sonneveld. A good solution if you are having trouble running your old Sierra AGI games. |
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Sarien - Another AGI interpreter. Holds
a lot of promise. Now being merged into ScummVM |
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AGI for Java - This interpreter is an open
source project that aim to make an AGI Engine entirely in pure Java. |
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FreeSCI - FreeSCI can run SCI0 (early)
games |
| Scumm (LucasArts) Games: |
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ScummVM - Runs Scumm (LucasArts) games. Support
has been added for non-Scumm games, too. Support is being added for the Coktel Vision games (Gobliiins,
Woodruff) |
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The ScummVM forums - Official
forums of the Scumm VM project. |
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NewRisingSun's SCI Patch Page - Script
code fixes against SCI timer bugs. Many of Sierra's infamous timer bugs (such as ERROR 52) have now been
conquered. By NewRisingSun. |
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Gabriel Knight 2000 - Endroz's
GK Patches & Tools. Enrico Rolfi has developed patches for the Gabriel Knight bugs. Use his installer
to play these games in XP. You will also find a no interlace patch for the videos in GK2 here. |
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Phantasmagoria
XP Installer - German only, but seems to work OK on the English version. Made with Endroz's tools.
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LSL 7 - Setup Fix Page
- Home of the LSL 7 - Setup Utility. |
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Sierra's FTP - Most of Sierra's
official patches can be found here. Unfortunately, many of the files are unidentified with only cryptic
8 character DOS names. |
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KiewitzSoft
eComStation.Ru - Home of the GOSiERRA
Patch - A third party patch for the Sierra DOS SoundBlaster driver by Martin Kiewitz. Use to fix the
"Unable to initialize your audio hardware . . ." error message that you get when starting up some
of Sierra's DOS VGA games. |
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Phantasmagoria II DOS Patch
- or from here - The Windows
version of Phantasmagoria II does not run in XP and was released with no DOS version. This patch will convert
the Windows version to DOS. |
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Hero's
Quest Patches. Patches for all five games including the Win2k/XP patch for Dragon Fire. |
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The Patches Scrolls - A large repository
game patches available for download. |
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| Slowdown Utilities: |
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Mo'Slo CPU Slowdown Utilities - One of the
better known slowdown utilities. |
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PC Slow Down Page! - A list of various
slowdown utilities. Slowdown utilities results are inconsistent at best. Use as a last ditch effort to get
around timer bugs. |
| Misc. Utilities: |
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DOSHelp - DOS utilities, bootdisk,
and tutorials for all your DOS gaming needs. A joint venture between Home of the Underdogs and BumbleB.org
(Hosted by HOTU) |
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GBAGI - Play the
original King's Quest on your Game Boy Advanced. By Brian Provinciano. |
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Ultimate AGI & SCI Site - A
fan site by Brian Provinciano, creator of SCI Studio. Has many Sierra demo games and utilities for AGI and
SCI games. |
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VAG's SCI Page - Tools for SCI resources.
Ever want to play the movies in the later Sierra SCI game, like "The Beast Within" "Lighthouse"
or "Phantasmagoria" outside of the game? VAG has developed a VMD Player that will let you. |
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SCI Studio - Edit existing
SCI games or create your own just like Sierra's classic games. Developed by Brian Provinciano. |
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SCI Companion - A complete
editor for EGA SCI games. |
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AGI Studio - Create your own games
like King's Quest: Quest for the Crown. |
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Visual AGI - An integrated development environment
for creating games for the Sierra AGI interpreter. |
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Adventure Game Studio - AGS allows
you to create your own point-and-click adventure games. |
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VU Community Forums
- Get hints, help and general banter here. |
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S.W.A.T. - Help
and banter for the action series that came from the Police
Quest series. |
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Leisure Suit Larry
- Official boards for Al Lowe's classic series. |
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Caesar - Boards
for the series based on Impressions' original
city building game. |
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Arcanum - Community
for Troika's RPG game. |
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Starsiege Tribes
- Talk to other Starsiege/Tribes fans. |
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Gabriel Knight
- Official boards for Jane Jensen's Gabriel
Knight series. |
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Quest for Glory
- Meeting place for Lori and Cory Cole's classic Adventure/RPG hybrid
series. |
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Sierra Classics
- Where VU has put the forums for most of the Sierra Classics. |
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Action/Adventure and FPS
- Boards for Sierra's Classic Adventure games. |
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Conquests Series -
Forum for Christy Marx's two Conquests games. |
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Freddy Pharkas - Al
Lowe's classic western comedy. |
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Goblins Series - Talk
about the Coktel Vision zany classic series. |
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King's Quest - Official
forum for the granddaddy of all graphical adventure games and its
sequels. |
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Laura Bow Series -
Talk to other fans of the classic mystery series.
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Lighthouse - Need
help getting through one of Sierra's toughest games? Ask here. |
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Lost In Time - Boards
for Coktel Vision's best drama adventure game. |
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Manhunter Series -
The Murrys' classic AGI game. |
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Phantasmagoria - Help
and discussion for Roberta Williams' Horror
game. |
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Police Quest - Check
here for help with the Sierra police drama series.
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RAMA - Discussion
for the Sierra game based on Arthur C. Clarke's nove, Rendezvous
With Rama. |
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Shivers Series - Boards
for Marcia Bales's classic games. |
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Space Quest - Need
help with the games form The Two Guys From Andromeda? |
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Torin's Passage -
Al Lowe's fun game for younger gamers. |
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Woodruff - Help and
discussion for Coktel Vision's most amusing adventure
game. |
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Action/Adventure and FPS Community
Tech Help - General tech help for Sierra's other Adventure games. |
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Role-Playing -
Boards for Sierra's Classic RPG games. |
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Betrayal In Antara
- Forum for the sequel to the RPG game based on Raymond
E. Feist's Riftwar stories, Betrayal
at Krondor. |
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Return To Krondor
- Forum for the second sequel to Betrayal at Krondor.
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Throne of Darkness
- Forum for the later Sierra game from CLICK Entertainment. |
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Role-Playing Community Tech
Help - General tech help for Sierra's other RPG games. |
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Sports - Boards
for Sierra's Classic Sports games. |
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Front Page Sports
- Talk about and get help for the classic Dynamix Sports
series here. |
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Sierra Racing Classics
- NASCAR fan? Look no further. |
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Trophy Bass - For
the desktop fisherman in all of us. |
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Sports Community Tech Help
- General tech help for Sierra's other Sports games. |
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Strategy - Boards
for the Sierra/Impressions Classic Strategy games. |
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Civil War Generals
- Check here for help with the Impressions'
Civil War games. |
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Lords of Magic - forum
for the Lords of Magic series. |
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Lords of the Realm
- Trouble carving out your kingdom in the Middle Ages? Look here. |
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Pharaoh - Get help
for ruling the Nile here. |
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Zeus Master of Olympus
- Forum for Zeus and its expansion, Poseidon. |
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Strategy Community Tech Help
- General tech help for Sierra's other Strategy games. |
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Sierra Classics Discussion
- General discussion for Sierra's other classic games. |
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VOGONS - Stands for Very Old
Games On New Systems. These boards can provide help for getting your old favorites
running on your modern computer. Has forums for DOSBox, VDMSound and several Glide wrappers (for old 3-D
games.) |
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Sierra Gamers - Ever wish you could ask
Ken Williams a questions? Ask here
at Ken Williams' site. Also has a Sierra archival project in project. |
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NT Compatible - Another forum for help with
running legacy games and applications on the NT family of Windows (NT 4, 2k and XP.) |
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Quest Studios Message Boards
- If you are one of the fortunate few with a Roland MT-32
Sound module, but, are having trouble setting it up, you may find help here. |
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DOSHelp - DOS utilities, bootdisk, and
tutorials for all your DOS gaming needs. A joint venture between Home of the Underdogs and BumbleB.org |
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The Oldskool PC - A website dedicated to old
PC gaming-related nostalgia and resources. |
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Dave's interesting DOS programs - Links to
various DOS software and other DOS related websites. |
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HOTU
Tech Help - by Jefe Picaro. If you encounter a problem with an old game, this site might have a
solution. |
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Zophar's Domain - A large emulation
site. |
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MobyGames - The largest game database site.
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| Walkthroughs: |
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The Spoiler Centre - Has walkthroughs for
many of Sierra's and other's games. |
| Sierra Music: |
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Mark Seibert's Site - Former music
director for Sierra in its glory days. |
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Quest Studios -
Love the music from the Sierra classics? You can download much of the music here. Extracted from the
games. |
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| Purchase: |
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CD Access - Has many older games in stock.
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Ebay - The on-line auction site. Sooner or
later you will be able to find most of Sierra's games here. |
| Apple ][ Games: |
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ftp://ftp.apple.asimov.net/pub/apple_II/Assets/games/
- A FTP site with a very large collection of disk images. |
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Virtual Apple 2 - Preserving a generation
of Apple 2 disks. An entire library of old Apple 2 disks online. They currently have over 1100 disk images
archived on the web site. Relive, play, and enjoy old Apple 2 games and other disks through the internet
and your web browser. |
| C-64: |
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C64.com - Large game archive, good speed, files not
zipped. |
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