• Lomax Software - great Shareware Games.

• Tripod Software - great FREEware games, such as Rocket Raid.

• Champ Programming Team - Rewrites of classic games on the PC (Shareware) -
  Sadly, they seem to have closed down ?? - Moose

Astronomy and our Solar System WEB Sites :

• NASA Planets and Missions information

• Enchanted Learning

• The Planetary Society

• Solar Views

• Solar Space Station

Terraforming WEB Sites :

• Red Colony

• Mars Society

• Terraforming Information Pages (loads of essays and articles)

Terraforming Calculators / Simulators / Viewers :

• Terraforming Calculator
  an extremely basic calculator for some variables / conditions.

• Mars Viewer
  This program allows the user to rotate his viewpoint and zoom in and out on the surface of Mars and to flood the Northern Plains in order to simulate a Boreal Ocean. (But, it did not run well on my Windows XP Pentium 4 1.8 MHz system).

• Mars Terraforming Simulator
  Work In Progress - has not been released yet.

N.B. If you are interested in this sort of thing, you might like to check out some of my programs :

1. Astronaut's Chronometer

2. Solar System Simulator

Arcade Emulation sites :

• Retrogames

• Mame World

• The Guru's Arcade ROM Dumping, Dumping Project and Shopping List

• Arcade at Home

• MAME's Home Page

• MAME 32's Home Page i.e. MAME for Windows.

• Arcade Flyer Archive

• Bobby Tribble's page of Unemulated Arcade Games

• Vintage Gaming Network (formerly known as Dave's VideoGame Classics)

• Shoegazer's NonMAME Arcade Games

• Shoegazer's NonMESS Games

Video / Arcade Game / Author Information :

• The legendary Wiretap archive contains information for people thinking of writing their own emulators, or repairing or converting their old arcade machines.

• Killer List of Video Games (KLOV) contains descriptions, screen shots, etc for 1,000's of arcade games.

• Halcyon Days: Interviews with Classic Computer and Video Game Programmers - a great free web-based book by James Hague.

Emulator Information :

• Emulation Programming Repository

• Arcade Machine Emulation for Newbies FAQ, by Moose O'Malley contains useful information for getting emulators up and running.

ROMs, ROMs, ROMs :

• Legal Public Domain ROMs over 5,000 Public Domain ROMs for various console and computer emulators.

• Till's Fix Files

• Arcade ROMs

Other Emulation Information :

• N.G. Emu

Many companies are releasing full versions of their old games onto the Internet and they are available for free !!

These are **NOT** wArEz - they are official full versions of games released by companies as a gesture of good will !!

You can now download full versions of these games :

• Zork 1

• Ultima IV . But, you should also get the following :
  1. CGA -> EGA Patch
  2. PC Speaker -> MIDI Patch.

• Betrayal at Krondor

• One Must Fall - 2097 (DOS - 6.5 MB)

There are several Internet utilities that you cannot live without !!

Below are the ones I consider most essential :

• Cute FTP - sick of downloading multi-megabyte files and having your internet connection crash 99% of the way through so you have to start again ? Well, get Cute FTP - it can resume broken downloads !

• Getright - like Cute FTP, but it enables you to resume broken FTP, HTTP, etc downloads - absolutely essential !!

• Atomic : Maximum Power Computing (Australia)
• Australian Personal Computer
• Australian PC World
• Australian Computer Living

For anyone wanting to set-up their own Home Page, or learn Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML), check out the following excellent help archives :

• HTML Primer
• HTML Guide
• GIF Construction Set : make animating GIFs like mine !!!

The Movies - Errors, Cliches, etc WEB Site is a real hoot !! There are an incredible variety of errors and cliches in movies, many of which went un-noticed - until now that is !! For example :

• All computer monitors display text in inch-high letters.
• Thunder and lightning always happen at exactly the same time.
• When people are tied up in the movies, which is usually loosely and incompetently, they can't escape without finding some convenient device to burn or cut through the ropes.
• All beds have a special L-shaped top sheet, which reaches up to armpit level on women but only to waist level on men.
• Explosions in space make noise.

• Guitar Chords & Song Lyrics

• World of the Weird