Subject: Find-It FAQ: Where can I download stuff for my C= emulator from?
From: Markus Mehring 
Newsgroups: comp.emulators.cbm
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 00:23:30 +0100
Message-ID: <863063.3vvioud.0@mm.invalid.de>

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(last updated 07 December 1999 - Changes appear with a | in the left
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*_The Find-It FAQ: Where can I download stuff for my C= emulator from?_*


This is Paul Irvine's original FAQ on finding Commodore stuff on the Net
for download. In his inimitable words:

"Are you looking for a C64 game or Utility, then look no further. This
list covers most of the well known sites on the NET, If you cannot find
it on these sites then its a very rare game. Only *then* ask in the
Newsgroup for it...."

So, please, read this first! It's short and comprehensive. Thanks also to
Ben Castricum and Kai Spitzley.

The FAQ is also currently downloadable from Jim Brain's site (though he
has had trouble of late):

ftp://ftp.jbrain.com/pub/cbm/faq/cbm-game-ftp-sites.txt 
ftp://ftp.jbrain.com/pub/cbm/faq/cbm-game-ftp-sites.MM.YY.txt

and from Kai's:

http://www.heechee.net/c64/cbm-game-ftp-list.txt

and mine:

http://www.oocities.com/Area51/Vault/8611/cbm/findit.txt
http://cbm.qad.org/findit.txt

and also in HTML, thanks to Laust Brock-Nannestad:

http://www.heechee.net/c64/cbm-game-ftp-list.html

I figure that, in the meantime, there are a couple of sites out there which
use this FAQ, both in ASCII and in HTML. That's okay with me. But please
make sure that you use it properly and only as I posted it (i.e. don't tear
it to pieces, leave out disclaimers, etc.) and also take care that you have
not an all too outdated version. Thank you.

Contact me if you have a site for addition here, or know of dead links or
changes to URLs. In assent to Paul's original and very selective standards,
banner-ridden pages will not be included!


Important legal note
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Because I know what lawyers like to do on weekends:

"Please respect the property considerations of games available for
download. The general rule of thumb is, download it only if you own it."

Many generous companies have also made their old titles available free.
These anyone may download and play. There is a special section for them
here -- please take advantage of them and send them a note of thanks so
that other companies might do the same! Also consider investigating the
list of freeware sites, which, while not offered by the original authors or
were commercial releases, are also free for the download.

Games also appear from time to time in comp.binaries.cbm. These games, too,
are always freely downloadable and distributable.


FTP C64 game archives
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ftp://arnold.c64.org/pub/games

Arnold is the *main* repository for C64 games. Almost everything is there.

| ftp://mursac.marshall.edu/sys/pub/c64/Games
|  (on probation - currently unaccessable, but let's see how that develops)
ftp://ftp.ludd.luth.se/pub/c64/games/old
ftp://ftp.armory.com/pub/user/spectre/D64-FORMAT
ftp://utopia.hacktic.nl/pub/c64/Scene/Old/ 
ftp://kwed.org/pub/kwed/triangle
ftp://ftp.elysium.pl/GamesArchive/


HTTP C64 game archives
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http://home9.inet.tele.dk/jez
 JEZ' page: rare games and unusual titles.
http://www.commodorezone.com/
 Commodore Zone: highly recommended. .TAPS here as well.
http://cia.c64.org/
 Ben Castricum's archive: .taps, .sids, games, .crt files.
http://stekt.oulu.fi/~mysti/the_sharks/Files/Games/Tested
 Sharks page
http://ltd.simplenet.com/c64/games
 Laner's Lost & Found page
http://almighty.c64.org
 The almighty C64 - nice page for starters, some unusual titles
http://www.poli.studenti.to.it/ftp/pub/c64/games/
 Needs a "ticket" to enter the site -- free, but a bit irksome
http://www.oocities.com/SiliconValley/Hills/2096/
http://come.to/Commodore/
 Commodore 64 Dungeon
http://www.uni-mb.si/~uel024r1a/c64.html
 CIS's C64 page
http://kwed.org/triangle/
 The Triangle page
http://huizen.nhkanaal.nl/~blast/
 Blast Archive
http://www.c64.com/
 Well, duh. :-)
http://www.uni-mb.si/~uel024r1a/c64.html
http://www.scs-trc.net/
http://www.oocities.com/TimesSquare/Arena/1883/c64/
 Easy download of game collections & links


Mirrors (Duplicates of a site at an alternative address to the above)
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ftp://ftp.scs-trc.com/pub/c64
ftp://ftp.utopia.hacktic.nl/pub/c64
 Digital Dungeon mirrors


Author Freeware Sites
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You can download software for free from these pages, and play them legally
even if you don't own the original game. Please do so!

ftp://ftp.beamsoft.com/pub/beam/old_games/c64/
 Beam Software (Melbourne House)

http://www.elite0.fsnet.co.uk/elite/
 Ian Bell (Elite)

http://www.magicnet.net/~yak/linx.htm
 Jeff Minter and Llamasoft

http://www.pcii.net/~msadams/advent.htm
 Scott Adams

ftp://ftp.nvg.unit.no/pub/sinclair/snaps/games/by-company/vortex/vtx_c64.zip
 Vortex (just one game currently). Yes, it's a Speccy site, but the game
 is truly in C64 format.

http://www.iceonline.com/kris/old/fred.html
 Kris Hatlelid (Frantic Freddie) - this site is known to be hard to reach


"National Archives"
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http://skyscraper.fortunecity.com/crypt/438/
 British software companies and titles
http://www.softwolves.pp.se/cbm/scpd/
 Scandinavien PD
http://www.softwolves.pp.se/cbm/syspd/
 SYS PD/C64,C128 - Svensk PD software
http://www.germanc64.de
 Deutschsprachige Spiele


Freeware/Public Domain Games and Previews
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These games/previews are free for the download. So try them!

http://www.wire.c64.org
 Brendan Reid's site -- freely downloadable previews/PD


Utils and Tools
===============

http://www.fairlight.to/tools/main.html
http://arnold.c64.org/~minstrel/
 Various .tap and .cart utils
ftp://ftp.armory.com/pub/user/spectre/UTIL-C64
ftp://ftp.armory.com/pub/user/spectre/EMUL-UTIL
http://www.c64classics.com
 Home of both the Quick64! and Gamebase64 shell-extension/front-end


.TAP Sites
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(also see Commodore Zone)

http://members.tripod.com/~rstorer/c64/index.html
 Games and Utils
http://www.computerbrains.com/c64rawtapes.html
http://members.tripod.com/~twitek/index.html


Search Engines
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http://www.c64.org/~mepk/cfs.html
 Commodore FTP search -- search multiple FTP indexes by filename
http://tomten.C64.org/hv2.html
 Excellent .sid finder utility
http://www.c64.org/sidfind/


Emulator sites
==============

PC64 download sites aren't listed here because it is no longer supported.
Use one of these fine emulators instead.

($$) = shareware, (F) = freeware

http://www.fatal-design.com/ccs64/
 CCS64 (Windows, DOS, $$)
http://www.computerbrains.com/
 CCS64 BETA editions (Windows, DOS, $$) --
 free for download but use at your own risk

http://www.phs-edv.de
 C64S (DOS, $$)
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dsladic/vice/vice.html
 VICE (Windows, Unix, DOS, RISC/OS) (F)
http://www.uni-mainz.de/~bauec002/FRMain.html
 Frodo (Mac, Amiga, RISC/OS, BeOS, Unix, Windows) (F, Mac $$)
http://www.auto.tuwien.ac.at/~rlieger/Power64/Power64.html
 Power64 (Mac, $$)
http://www.magic64.de/
 MagiC64 (Amiga, $$)
http://www.comeback.c64.org
 Come Back 64 (DOS, Windows, WinCE, Java)


SID players and tunes
=====================

http://www.oocities.com/SiliconValley/Lakes/5147/
 Sidplay Home + links 
http://www.hvsc.c64.org/
 HVSids Collection
ftp://arnold.c64.org/sidmusic
ftp://arnold.c64.org/sidmusic/nemesids
 Amiga collections


Gamers Guide disk mag
=====================

ftp://ftp.scs-trc.net/pub/c64/Magazines/Gamers_Guide/


Game Tribute Sites
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http://lastninja.c64.org/
 Kai's ultimate tribute to Last Ninja
http://www.student.nada.kth.se/~d93-alo/c64/links.html
 Many links here


Just for fun
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http://www.heechee.net/c64/gallery/
 See the mugs of all those weird people on c.e.c


We'll give Paul the last word:

"This list is endorsed and was compiled by the comp.emulators.cbm folk. A
big thank you to all involved and keep me up to date with new good sites :)
BUT Please do NOT send sites stuffed full of Banners as these are costly
and annoying!!"

Send all changes, deletions and additions to my address for consideration.
Enjoy.
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