From m.m@gmx.net Thu Nov 07 00:47:52 2002
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(last updated 8 Aug 2002 - Changes appear with a | in the left column.)

*_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 from Ben's:

http://cia.c64.org/docs/find-it-faq.txt

and mine:

http://www.geocities.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 or 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have not an all too outdated version.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!

Some of the links in this document point right to download pages and
directories. This might turn out to be somewhat unfair towards the
maintainers of those sites, while it suits the nature of a linklist like
this. Please do check out the rest of such pages while you're there -
people have invested time and effort in their sites so that people actually
visit them, after all.

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://ftp.ludd.luth.se/pub/c64/games/
ftp://ftp.armory.com/pub/user/spectre/D64-FORMAT/
ftp://utopia.hacktic.nl/pub/c64/
ftp://kwed.org/pub/kwed/triangle/
ftp://ftp.elysium.pl/GamesArchive/
ftp://c64.rulez.org/pub/
ftp://ftp.df.lth.se/pub/c64/

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/
 The 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.geocities.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.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Arena/1883/c64/
 Easy download of game collections & links
http://www.lemon64.com/
 Kim Lemon's Games Page. It has a huge collection of games.
http://www.chez.com/hibisch/D64/TCOM/
 Transcom Archives - Not many disks, but they're full of great stuff!
http://www.vanderpoel.demon.nl/
 Patrick van der Poel's site specializes on cartridge and ROM dumps.

http://hjem.get2net.dk/hlr/
http://www.tld-crew.de/
http://www.ozemail.com.au/~gvincent/
http://www.cablenet.co.uk/~mulberry/page1.html
http://members.xoom.com/_riker_/index.htm
http://www.homeusers.prestel.co.uk/compunet/
http://home.ptd.net/~faethor/c64class/c64class.htm
http://www.afn.org/~afn04314/c64games.htm
http://hem2.passagen.se/c64linus/
http://www.mergetel.com/~blitz/C64/
http://tuanix.simplenet.com/c-64/
http://www.webpan.com/dsinclair/commodore/commodore.html

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

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)
 Site is defunct. Anyone who knows where it has moved?

http://www.bigfoot.com/~elite0/
 Ian Bell of Elite fame, various versions of Elite as free downloads.
 Bell & Braben seem to be playing hide & seek with this page, so don't be
 surprised if the URL changes again anytime soon...

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

http://www.msadams.com/
 Scott Adams
(Scott doesn't have CBM-versions on his site, alas, but he sure has
declared his games as freely available. CBM-versions are available over his
links-section.)

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

http://cosmi.com/download/c64.zip
 Super Huey 1&2, Forbidden Forrest, Beyond Forbidden Forrest
 (Careful with above ZIP. That's a 3MB package including the entire
 VICE-emulator...)

http://www.cinemaware.com/vault.asp?vault=games
 Cinemaware offers many of their classic titles for various systems.
 C64 titles available are Defender of the Crown, The Three Stooges,
 Rocket Ranger, Sinbad and the Throne of the Falcon.

"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
http://www.retroplay.com/Mecenate/Edicola/
 Progetto Edicola. During the '80s you could find at the Italian
 newsagent many tapes containing cracked games with the name changed.
 They are collected here.
http://www.geocities.com/musuruan/
 Andrea Musurane's site. There's going to be italian software added.

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
http://www.cosine.demon.co.uk/
ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/cbm/

Utils and Tools
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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.gamebase64.com/
 The emulator frontends Gamebase64 and Quick64! and home of the
 Gamebase Collection of C64 games.

.TAP Sites
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(also see Commodore Zone and Ben's CIA)

http://members.tripod.com/~rstorer/c64/index.html
 Games and Utils
http://www.computerbrains.com/c64rawtapes.html
http://members.tripod.com/~twitek/index.html
http://home.c2i.net/tas/
http://members.xoom.com/_XOOM/c64games/
http://redump64.emuunlim.com/
http://arnold.c64.org/~vic20/
 Collection of VIC-20 TAPs

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
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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, $$)
| http://viceteam.bei.t-online.de/
 VICE (Windows, Unix, DOS, Acorn RISC OS, OS2, BeOS x86) (F)
http://www.uni-mainz.de/~bauec002/FRMain.html
 Frodo (Mac, Amiga, RISC/OS, BeOS, Unix, Windows) (F, Mac $$)
http://www.infinite-loop.at/
 Power64 & Power20 (Mac, $$)
http://www.magic64.de/
 MagiC64 (Amiga, $$)
http://www.cb64.com/
 Come Back 64 (DOS, Windows, WinCE, Java, Unix, OpenVMS, BeOS) (F)

SID players and tunes
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http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lakes/5147/
 Sidplay Home + links
| http://sidplay2.sourceforge.net/
|  Sidplay2, the next generation
http://www.hvsc.c64.org/
 HVSids Collection
ftp://arnold.c64.org/sidmusic/
ftp://arnold.c64.org/sidmusic/nemesids/
 Amiga collections

Handy Tools and Utilities
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http://sta.c64.org/sc.html
 The Star Commander (file transfer/conversion/editing)
http://www.fairlight.to/tools/
 Bachus' overview and download

Hints & Manuals
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http://project64.c64.org/
 Project 64 is the main repository for manuals of all kind.
http://solutions.c64.org/
 Solutions and walkthroughs.
http://pokes.c64.org/
 Cheats and Pokes.
http://www.softwolves.pp.se/idoc/
 iDOC has manuals in a variety of languages.

Gamers Guide disk mag
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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
http://www.total-breakout.de/
 Breakout and its clones

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
 (As for 'fun', see also Kai's collection of XXX-rated C64-software... :)

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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