A collection of various vintage computing websites that I find useful.
Some may be listed multiple times if they fall under multiple sections.
| Forums | |
|---|---|
| Site Name/Link | Description |
| 68kMLA Forums | The longest running vintage mac discussion forum, first started back in 2001. |
| Tinker Different | Another vintage mac-centric forum, although they've got sections for other computers too. |
| VCF Forums | Very large and old general vintage computing forum. |
| VOGONS | Another large vintage computing forum, mostly centered on the software side of things and emulation, but has plenty of hardware discussion too. |
| BetaArchive | Beta and Abandonware discussion forum. They also have a very large software archive. |
| System 7 Today | They have a much smaller forum than these others, but it's completely accessible from 68k and PPC Mac hardware! |
| Software Archives | |
| Site Name/Link | Description |
| Internet Archive | You probably already all know about this one. Had to mention it though, they're probably the largest archive in general on the internet. |
| Macintosh Garden | The best place to go for Mac abandonware. |
| BetaArchive | Linked here again as they have a 100TB+ software archive. You do need to contribute a piece of software to them to gain archive access though. |
| Oldversion.com | Old versions of freeware. |
| General | |
| Site Name/Link | Description |
| Machut | Small software and manual archive, SE/30 resources, and more to come. |
| Cornica | Videos accessible from vintage Macintoshes. |
| System 7 Today | Besides the forum mentioned earlier, S7T also has a good amount of information on making the most out of System 7. |
| Mac84's site | Various Resources |
| Recap-a-Mac | Mac recapping guides |
| vintageapple.org | Lots of old documentation, archived print materials, and more. |
| Personal Sites | |
| Site Name/Link | Description |
| Tech&Music | Personal site of @Daniël from 68kMLA.org |
| Shymon's Mac Museum | |
| k24a1 | Personal site of @k24a1 from 68kMLA.org |