For those who can access that great expanse of area called the World Wide
Web, here is some new places to visit that are of interest to the Commodore
community. In early 1994, when the US Commodore WWW Site started, the number
of sites online that catered to Commodore numbered in the 10's. Now, the
number is in the 100's. What a change.
If you know of a site that is not listed here, please feel free to send it
to the magazine. The following links have been gleaned from those recently
changed or added to the US Commodore WWW Site Links page
(http://www.msen.com/~brain/cbmlinks.html).
To encourage these sites to strive to continually enhance their creations,
and because we like to gripe :-), we'll point out an improvements that
could be made at each site.
Companies
- http://www.escom.nl
ESCOM Interactive, Inc. The new home of Commodore has links to many of
its offices and some general information. The pages are still under
construction, but you should probably save this address. C=Hacking gripe:
No Commodore 8-bit inforation yet.
- http://www.msen.com/~brain/guest/cmd/
Creative Micro Designs. Stay tuned to this site for information on
the accelerator, and keep up to date on the latests prices on CMD
peripherals and software. C=Hacking gripe: For a comapny wanting having
just announced the Super64CPU, no mention of it is to found anywhere on
the WWW site. Bummer.
Publications
- http://www.softdisk.com/about/c64.html
LOADSTAR and LOADSTAR 128. If you are interested in LOADSTAR, check 'em
out here. Some Commodore links are included, and the and a few magazine
teasers are present. In addition, details on how to ordr LOADSTAR or any
of its related software titles is provided. C=Hacking gripe: the
background color. Yellow is hard on our eyes... Oh well.
- http://www.mds.mdh.se/~dat95pkn/8bitar/
Atta Bitar (8 Bitter) magazine. Full indexes for the past 3 years, as well
as information on how to subscribe. We'd tell you more, but none of us
read German (At least we THINK it's German), and the English transmation
page isn't done yet. Anyway, if you would like to subscribe or need to
search the index of the magazine, here's the place to go.
C=H gripe: Yes, we know this is English-centric, but we just wish we could
actually read all the great info on this site.
User's Groups
- http://www.cucug.org/
Champaign-Urbana Commodore User's Group. Home of the Universtity of
Illinois (the editor's alma mater!) Meeting dates and time, along with
newsletters and a user group listing are presented. C=H gripe: No
mention of what local CBM 8-bit users are doing. This site recently
changed addresses, so change all your links...
- http://www.psc.edu/~eberger/pcg/
Pittsburgh Commodore Group. Local news, meeting dates and time, and
some newsletters are present. This site has also recently relocated
to this new address. C=H gripe: Same as for CUCUG. We want to know
what the CBM 8-bitters are doing in Pittsburgh.
- http://www.slonet.org/~rtrissel/
The Central Coast Commodore User's Group. Those in the Santa Maria
CA area will be glad to know that CCCUG is there for them. Past
newsletter are available, and some links to other information of
interest is present. C=H gripe: Meeting dates and times need to be
present in some easy place. C=H plug: It sounds like this club might
need a little help, as it is down on members. If you are in the Santa
Maria area, consider joining...
Miscellaneous
- http://www.byte.com/art/9408/sec14/art1.htm
Byte Magazine's Commodore obituary, by Tom Halfhill. Tom spells out many
of the things that Commodore DID do right in its lifetime, and reflects
on the blunders CBM made. The article makes for very good reading, but
will depress some. C=H gripe: The pictures in the real article aren't
reproduced in the WWW page.
- http://stud1.tuwien.ac.at/~e9426444/geoswarp/index.html
GEOS Warp 1.0. For the Mac user who needs or wants to run GEOS, this
program, run on a Macintosh, will allow GEOS programs to operate on
the Mac. The system looks very impressive, to the point of us not asking,
Why? C=H gripe: Not really with the page, but the writer laments that
progress is slow owing to no agreement with GEOWorks. Such things may
doom the project to failure.
- http://vanbc.wimsey.com/~danf/cbm/
Dan Fandrich's WWW Site. For those who develop on alternate platforms or
use multiple programming languages with the C64/128, bookmark this page.
Very current info, and lots of it is presented. Some defunct Commodore
mags are indexed, and pointers are provided to many of the current crop of
magazines, including this one. C=H gripe: the page needs a little bit
more organization to make it easier to get at juicy info.
- http://www.aloha.net/~scatt/commodore.htm
Scatt's WWW Site. For those just moving into assembly language programming
from BASIC or something else, this page has a beginner's tutorial you
might find useful. C=H gripe: A little low on content, but we are glad
what there is is available.
- http://www.cs.wm.edu/~pbgonz/progc64.html
Pete Gonzalez's WWW Site. Small page, but worth viewing. Pete shows some
screen shots of a new game he is developing, and offers copies of his
in progress cross assembler for the PC. C=H gripe: When's the game coming
out again? :-)
- http://www.ts.umu.se/~yak/cccc/
The Commodore Computer Cult Corner. Some people play games, and then some
people PLAY games. Jonas Hulten has pictures of his game design,
implementation, and programming heoes. You can read about each one, and
even light a "candle" for them. This site has a CBM links page, which
anyone can add their link to automatically. C=H gripe: We can add our home
page automatically, but not our hero.
- http://www.slonet.org/~jwilbur/
John Wilbur's WWW Site. Basically, just a links page right now, but we'll
check back. C=H gripe: We'd like to see a little more about John as it
relates to Commodore.
- http://www.student.informatik.th-darmstadt.de/~supermjk/
Marc-Jano Knopp's WWW Site. Mainly a large links page for Commodore
information, this site does give a glimpse of the never produced Commodore
LCD laptop computer. C=H gripe: As above, we love to see a little more
about Marc-Jano as it relates to Commodore.
Last Updated: 1995-12-4