======================================================================== (last updated 14 Mar 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 and also take care that you have not an all too outdated version.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 ==================== 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 ===================== 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 ====================== 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) ===================================================================== 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 ===================== 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" =================== 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 ========================================= 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 =============== 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 ========== (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 ============== 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, 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 ===================== http://www.geocities.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 Handy Tools and Utilities ========================= http://sta.c64.org/sc.html The Star Commander (file transfer/conversion/editing) http://www.fairlight.to/tools/ Bachus' overview and download Hints & Manuals =============== 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 ===================== ftp://ftp.scs-trc.net/pub/c64/Magazines/Gamers_Guide/ Game Tribute Sites ================== 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 ============ 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. ========================================================================== CU! Markus