Welcome
To The Old Computer Dot Com, dedicated to all aspects of retro computing, collecting and gaming. In here you will find emulators and Roms for many weird and defunked formats as well as libraries full of material like commercials, magazines and manuals. Please make sure you read the Website Disclaimer before downloading any material. This website is owned, designed and maintained by one person, namely myself, Hot Trout. As such it requires a lot of effort and money to develop. If you are a Retro Computing or Gaming fan please visit the How To Help page for full details on how to get involved.

Questions should go to the Forums please and comments to the Guestbook. You can also follow my BLOG and TWITTER for daily ramblings. Affiliates and sites wishing to link in can find all the information you need on the Link To Us page.

This site has 56,939 Roms, 22GB over 47 Formats, last update on Nov 2009.

I have been making a number of maintenance updates to the website over the past few days.  I have created a new How To Help page which points users to various ways in which you can become involved beyond just making a donation. 

For other site owners and possible affiliates I have also created a Link To Us page which houses some great new banners, buttons and skyscrapers to use for linking back to this site.  I have also been repairing the Commodore PLUS4 rom section and converting all the PRG files to ZIP to make them easier handled.  I trust you will find the changes all good.

Thanks to Zack Fulpington for his Banner submission.  It has been used in the Nintendo Virtual Boy Roms section.  You can also view the other user submitted banners to get involved.

The final new section to be added this time is truly massive.  It is the entire Atari 8bit computer roms collection.  It covers all models like the 400, 800, 800XL, XE and variants.  This rom library has over 11,200 roms in various file formats.

I hope you enjoy this huge update.  Remember to follow my Twitters for up to the minute news and more great updates coming in the following weeks.

Its was March 1999 when I first registered the domain name that would become the mighty Old Computer Dot Com.  The last 10 years have wizzed past but I still love developing this site, answering your emails (a lot of emails), responding to the forums, uploading rom sets, blogging and generally being involved in all things retro.

Heres to the next 10 years, by which time I might even have finished uploading roms.  Possibly not though. :)

Welcome to 2009.  This year will be even bigger than 2008.  I am currently working on the complete revamp of the Emulators Library and hope to add dozens of new emulators.  Once completed I will adding a great many more formats of roms over the year and plan on making this site the most comprehensive collection of formats anywhere on the web..  A happy new year to everyone and remember to come back regularly over 2009..