This page contains links to sites I like because they are interesting,innovative in their use of technology, or just funny.I have grouped them under these headings.Click on a heading to jump down the page to the links.

Computer Games Links
Computing Related Links
High Tech Websites
Funny Websites
Web Sites of my Friends


Computer Games Links

Wan't something to play and don't want to pay for it? Well, you can either visit my
downloads page or Free Games Net. They have plenty of freeware and shareware games to download.

Do you fancy playing all your old Gameboy, SNES, Megadrive or Game Geargames on your new PC, as well as many older arcade machines? Well go to emucamp.com for up to date information on the latest emulators. Programmers are working on emulators for newer machines too. The playstation emulator PSEmu is moving at a good pace, and it may soon be time to throw away your Playstation and play the games on your PC (well maybe not quite yet). The UltraHLE Nintendo 64 emulator set the world on fire in early 1999 with it's previously unheard of speed and compatibility. There were even rumours that Nintendo were going to sue the authors!

If you like online games, you should visit Bezerk. This site lets you play several games online for nothing! 'You Don't Know Jack' is a strange quiz show with even stranger questions. Acrophobia is a game about making funny sentances out of acronyms. Their newest game is called 'What's the Big Idea?' and is about guessing how other people think. You do have to sit through the odd advert but thankfully they are short.

Have you ever wondered what the first home video game system was? Well at The History of Video Games Homepage you can find a complete history of video games since 1972.

ID sofware produced the incredibly popular Doom and Doom II which were huge hits in 1993 and are still popular today. Versions of Doom have been created for practically every console ever made. More recently, they have released Quake and Quake II. Quake III is coming soon, which concentrates more on the multiplayer aspect of the game. A test version is available for download is available at their site.


Computing Related Links

On a Monday evening I can usually be found at the The Bush Hill Park Computer Club, a club that meets weekly and fiddles about with the latest software and hardware. Join now! We need more members!

Windows is a complex beast, and finding the latest drivers for your equipment can be difficult. windowsfiles.com has a large list of links to the homepages of hardware manufacturers where you can download their drivers. They also have a large selection of Windows 95/98 utilities and plenty of tips for making your life with Windows easier.

Do you have an easily forgettable email address from Compuserve? Do you fancy an email address that's easy to remember like joebloggs@imtoosexy.com? Then go to My Own Emailand register your address. If you don't find any you like there, you could always try I-Name or HotMail or Yahoo! Mail. who provide free web-based email that can be used with just a web browser. All these services are totally free!

Lots of complete software or demos are available over the internet for free, and there are many librarys that let you search for what youwant, and then download it. Two that I have used are www.shareware.com and Jumbo Shareware. These librarys contain hundreds of thousands of programs so you're bound to find what you're looking for.

Another useful site is the listing of the Top 100 Computer Magazines Listing which lists the 100 best selling American computer magazines and links to their websites.


High Tech Websites

Along the motorways in the UK are small sensors at the side of theroad that mesure the speed of the cars on that stretch of road. Youcan buy a small gadget that you can keep in your car which warns you where the roads are slowest. Now you can see that information from the comfort of your own web browser. Visit the Traffic Net page to see all this in action. (You will need to have downloaded Shockwavefrom the Macromedia website before this will work)

Another fascinating site is the AudioNet homepage. This uses the RealPlayerplugin to provide live video and audio over the Net. The sound quality is getting better all the time, (the video quality is barely watchable) but it's fun anyway.There is also a CD Jukebox where you can listen from a selection of 450 music CDs.

If you need webspace to make your own homepage, or are looking for somewhere to chat to people, or a really lively collection of online forums, visit theglobe.com which can best be described as a community site. It's great!

Another good site is deja.com which will let you search a huge list of newsgroup messages past and present. It also has it's own discussion groups, called 'Communities', and a large voting thing called Ratings. You'll just have to go and see it to find out.


Funny Websites

Are your sins playing on your concience? Want a chance to admit them to a website?Then go to God's Homepage and say hi tothe creator.

If like me, you have a lot of contact with computers you'll enjoy the Toxic Custard Dictionary of Computing which, as you might have guessed, has all those things that you've always wanted to know, but never bothered to ask.


Web Sites of my Friends

Dark Jedi's Domain is my flatmate Ian's site. He has info on DVDs, music, and programming. There's also some photos of me if you can find them.

The Realm of Old Mother Hubbard has tribute sites for The Divine Comedy, Brian and Ani DiFranco. It also includes original arcticles and interviews with the stars!

sQuidsinn is somwhere to go if you like alternative music. You can download short MP3 samples. There's also lots of links to useful sites.

ACE-'s Place is a nice page that has a little of everything. Some jokes, a dictionary of emoticons, a few poems, and links to online gaming sites.

Richard's Homie Page is a mad place where you can download some of his impressions as WAVs and also look at pictures of his cat, Montie. See, someone else has cat pictures too!

At Haggis' Haven you can learn about Blackpool, home of the Pepsi Max Big One, the tallest fastest advert, sorry rollercoaster in the world.

Richard Lake's Homepage is practically empty, apart from a very usefull ASCII chart. Groovy.

The Hypermanic Website also has a wide range of topics including how to play snooker, effects for your guitar, and the plectrum gallery. There's also a short discography for Radiohead and the Manic Street Preachers.

Dazza Smiths Website has information on the latest developments in the world of Amiga computers, and some other stuff too.

Sandra Guzman doesn't have her own website yet, that will be coming over the next few months. But until then, here's this:

^K^'s Emporium is another of my friend's websites. It is empty right now, but he promises to have something there soon. (so how about it?)

Tom Love's website is somewhere to for a restful time reading some poems, or even find out about Acorn RISC computers.

I hope there's nobody else I've forgotton. If there is I'm sure they'll be really angry that I've forgotton them so I'd like to say sorry now. Alright? Happy? I don't really like you anyway so you can go and... Sorry, I got a bit carried away. I'm ok now. Really, I am.