Links



This page is intended as a collection of all the URLs scattered over the different pages (except for some link-intensive pages, see bottom of this page) and a home for the MS-DOS, KiSS and Gatchaman links lists.



Katze/Gatchaman links: these have not stood the test of time, most are gone.



DOS page URLs:
  • DOS - a list of links, archives and webrings, a number possibly dead, but worth checking out.
  • Interesting DOS programs: many programs I always thought you'd need Windows for; useful links.
  • Garbo PC collection: long list of very many programs (I think they're all for MS-DOS).
  • The Dos Page - coincidentally named like mine and also with the same function: reviewing software for DOS. But, unlike mine, a download site. Sadly, some reviews are dead links.
  • Free Software for DOS - an almost-all-text site, reviews/downloads of free (for personal use) software.
  • Return to DOS, succinct, informative. What DOS versions there are, what DOS can do, the main graphical shells.
  • Creating DOS Batch Files, the DOS batch file section of a general programming/scripting languages site, listing batch file syntax.
  • Rob van der Woude's Scripting Pages: all about scripts, including batch files, for many operating systems.
  • The MS-DOS F.A.Q. to answer all your MS-DOS questions. The English FAQ is gone, this one is in German.
  • The Free DOS Operating System, exactly what it says; an MS-DOS emulator usually included with Linux distributions, can also be used alone.
  • STANDALONE DOS: THE ALTERNATIVE OPERATING SYSTEMS, a general-knowledge site for DOS users, listing different DOS kinds and where to find them, evaluating essential DOS programs, pointing at DOS drivers for modern hardware, and containing a very useful links page. No longer maintained, may go down at any moment.
  • Download free games on DOS Games Archive, to quote the site's intro: "It's amazing how far computer games have progressed. But have you ever felt the urge to take a trip back in time and relive the games of the eighties and nineties? Well now you can! We have 248 DOS games in our archive that can be downloaded for free. The games are shareware, freeware, playable demos and full versions that are released as freeware or into the public domain."
  • Abandonia: a storehouse for old games, many for DOS, some freeware, most abandonware.


KiSS links:

Note: these are all English-language pages; the Japanese sites often have an English and a Japanese version of the same page, and as the latter might be more up-to-date, for anyone who knows both languages, it's worthwhile to check out both versions. For links on how to make KiSS sets, see KiSS info and tutorials.
  • The Storeroom, with KiSS tools for Photoshop.
  • Yav's KISekae Set - KISS, which explains the principle of KiSS through an animated graphic and contains a table of viewers dating back to the creation of KiSS.
  • EMK's page; tools and viewers programmed by EMK. Has an English and a Japanese page; the latter is more up-to-date.
  • Tigger's Little KiSS page, which has viewers (only for RiscOS machines!), tools, links to KiSS documentation, a complete FKiSS reference table and a number of cleverly programmed dolls.


Game URLs:
(See also under DOS page URLS.)

Text adventures:
  • Classic Infocom Games Revived - also starting with the biblical quote that so suggests itself with regard to text adventures. Links to interactive fiction sites and resources, not all of them still up.
  • IF-Legends.Org - an informative site about all companies that made interactive fiction games (ie. text adventures).
  • Infocom: Imagination sold and serviced here - a tribute to Infocom and its products.
  • For some Zork parodies including Genesis, text adventure style: look at the Knight of Ruckus's Zork page, which also has walkthroughs with nice graphics.
  • Magnetic Scrolls - info, downloads and an interpreter for the titles of Magnetic Scrolls, in Italian.
  • The Infocom Documentation Project - for the Infocom player in need of a map or manual.
  • Adrift - the site to download the free text game engine Adrift, and many game titles written with it.
  • Santhworld - a site devoted to the fantasy world of Santharia. This link goes to the page of online text adventures (some in progress) featuring sound and graphics.

Nethack:
Morrowind and other Elder Scrolls games:
  • The Elder Scrolls
    Bethesda's official Elder Scrolls site with patches for and information about all games, official Morrowind plugins, and a freebie download of Arena, the first game in the Elder Scrolls series, Morrowind being the third.
  • The Unofficial Elder Scrolls Pages: Morrowind
    A fan wiki about Morrowind and its many characters, with screenshots. Check the entry on Hisin Deep-Raed. Also has links to some vital mods, like Better Bodies.
  • Psychodog Studios: Better Bodies
    The place to pick up Better Bodies V2.2, to replace those ugly wooden-doll bodies with more realistic ones.
  • Sabregirl's Morrowind Mods
    This is the site for people who love beast races and especially custom beast races. Here I downloaded Better Bodies for Beasts, which is not in the Better Bodies package.
  • LizTail Studios
    On its Projects page, this site has an alternative to Better Bodies for Beasts: New Beast Bodies and the Unique Shadow Pack. These have changed textures as well as meshes.
  • Planet Elder Scrolls
    For information and many mods. You have to register to download, which is why I passed and instead used the following site:
  • Elric Melnibone and the Elder Scrolls Web Portal
    Doesn't need registration but does have a limit of the number of downloads per day, which is fair enough. Many great mods, including companion mods, and an invaluable search function. (Choose Morrowind Mods under Main Download Categories.) Has a direct link to Emma's and Grumpy's downloads. Also look for a mod by Cait that dots the island with horsies. They don't interact, but they're gorgeous to look at.
  • Emma's Elder Scrolls Site
    Companion mods! Beautiful face packs and her own NPC Replacer to give NPCs unique faces using these packs. Also mods from Kateri (Ashlander companion Julan), Grumpy (author of the customizable companion script), Vorwoda (Decius and Hippolyta) and others, and the joint project "Children of Morrowind". Little Orcs, cute!
  • Telesphoros' List o'Mods
    Only one of the pages listing Morrowind mods, but very extensive and well organized. A good place to find out about all the mods out there. My only beef is that it links to downloads on Planet Elder Scrolls, so I have to Google to see if a particular mod is downloadable elsewhere.
  • The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind Mod List
    Not as extensive as the one before it, but starts with some must-have mods. Focused on replacements and fixes. I love the way this page is written. And now that Unforgotten Realms - Gorg's Morrowind Mods is gone, this is the only site in my links list that points to the place to find Better Heads - on the Planet Elder Scrolls site.
  • Morrowind.BonusWeb.cz - Unofficial Czech fansite
    Let's just hope I translated that right! Mostly in Czech, but with some quirky plugins like "Daughters of Almilia" and "Creeper's Pad". This is where I found the "strip" plugins with which I hoped to counteract merchants' habit of donning sold armour. They didn't work, but they did give me the info needed to write my own plugin to accomplish this.
  • The Elder Scrolls - Television Tropes and Idioms
    What recurring themes ("tropes") can be found in the Elder Scrolls games.
  • Tommy Khajiit's hideout
    Of course this site has been around for a long time, but I noticed it just recently for its "make-your-own" kits, to make your own custom paintings and wall hangings. Hmm. Just like the Sims. Lore-breaking anime images, here I come. It also has some useful guides, and a link to the list below:
  • Modding on a $0 budget
    A list of freeware that can be used to make Morrowind mods, mostly paint and 3D modelling.
  • Morrowind-Oblivion
    This appears to be a more recent page. It has maps, mods and tools.
  • Sorcha Ravenlock's Morrowind
    This link is included for the porcelain white and blue retextures of Morrowind architecture. The download buttons point to the Elric Melnibone and the Elder Scrolls Web Portal site.
  • Calislahn.com: Elder Scrolls
    Mods for Morrowind and Oblivion; home of the portable bedroll.

These are BL game links, so for 18 and up:
  • HimeyaShop.com - sells Japanese games for PC and other platforms. The site is completely in English. It is currently down for an indefinite period.
  • JAST USA - another all-English site, sells Japanese dating sims for the PC, mostly girly stuff but they've cautiously begun to carry a yaoi title or two - translated, their catalogue says.
  • Yaoi Games - an English/Russian site (native language: Russian) with galleries for most BL games (to prove my boast that BL art is generally gorgeous) and some game info; however, loads slowly. If the English links don't work, try the Russian ones.
  • Takuyo - the site of the company that made Fragrance Tale.
  • Langmaor - the site of the company behind Enzai, Zettai Fukuju Meirei and other titles.
  • Boy's Love Games headquarters - an extremely informative English site on BL games, with reviews and a helpful links section.
  • Prince of Darkness - once a Japanese Fragrance Tale fansite with fanart and comics, now only has a walkthrough. The other fansite listed here, 75 RPM, has disappeared.
  • ?????? - a ZFM fanpage in Japanese, with descriptions of all characters and a walkthrough. The options have been reordered to show the quickest route to success, so to use it, either have Japanese fonts installed to be able to match the options shown in the walkthrough to those in the screen, or - as I did - pull the page through a web translator and make intelligent guesses which option is being shown when.

Puzzle games:
  • Clickomania!
    The site of the SameGame clone for Windows, Clickomania.
  • PipeWalker HomePage
    This page has the latest version of PipeWalker's source code, and the binaries for Windows. (Older versions for Linux can be installed from repositories.)
  • Mathematical Puzzles
    A small site of puzzle games where I found Boxworld under "Sokoban-like games".
  • Casual Games
    Oberon's new game site, to download and install Oberon Media games. The old site has gone.
  • I-Play
    Another way to get Oberon Media games. I prefer its downloads because they install more cleanly. Previously called Acer Gamezone. Automatically reroutes the old site link to the new site. It looks like a carbon copy of Casual games.
  • Break For Games
    Used to be a way to get Oberon Media games. Now, the site mainly seems to be for online flash games, including (pseudo-)KiSS games.
  • Games voor Iedereen.nl
    Yet another way to get Oberon Media games, especially in the Netherlands. Warning: they're translated in Dutch and the translations may suck.


Hardware URLs:

Software URLs:

Miscellaneous URLs:
  • www.dejavu.org - a site emulating old browsers, to see what a particular webpage would have looked like in, say, the first ever version of Netscape. Currently seems to be on a phishing blacklist, as every attempt to view an existing URL in an emulated browser was blocked by a warning.
  • AnimeCon.nl - the site of J-POP, the organisation hosting the yearly Dutch anime convention of the write-ups on the AniMisc page.

For links on how to make KiSS sets, see KiSS info and tutorials. For Sim links, see the links section of the Sims Support Page. For some plant and garden links, see the pages under Homegrown at the bottom of the Animisc page.



Links policy:
(applies to both this page and abovementioned link-intensive pages)

Frequent visitors may have noticed many dead links in my pages. This has three reasons. Firstly, I simply don't check my links very often. Secondly, sites can be temporarily down for many reasons. (I also used to get false "dead links" because my dialup internet connection was bad, but changing to ADSL has solved that.) When I come across a link that seems dead, I'll add a "possibly dead" warning, rather than remove it.

I also don't, generally, ask site owners' permission before linking to their site. It has come to my attention that Japanese site owners, for one, do expect this. My apologies to anyone whose site has been linked to against their wish; if you want a link to your site removed, please mail me. For the moment, I've decided to link to any site that has also been linked to from elsewhere, without asking.

Lastly, for easier maintenance, I point most links on the site to the relevant section in this links list.



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