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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 New Forum 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.

Current Stats : Size : 31.76GB | ROMs : 81370 | Systems : 196

ROM Update and is a big one !

Fri Mar 19, 2010 7:50 pm | 0 comments | Hot Trout

The never ending upload of roms continues, this time we are looking at almost 30,000 additional roms spread over many systems. Full list in no particular order is as follows :-

Tangerine : Oric, Atmos
Tesla : PMS-85
Texas Instruments : Ti-73,Ti-80,Ti-82,Ti-83,Ti-85,Ti-86,Ti-89,Ti-92 and Ti-99 4A
Commodore : C64 Disk Images
Thompson : MO5,MO6,TO7,TO8
Tiger : Game.com
Tomy : Tutor Pyuuta
University of Tokyo : PC-1
Videotron : TV Computer 64
VTech : Laser 200,Laser 310, Laser 2001 CreatiVision
Watara : Supervision
Wang : VS
Magnavox : Odyssey 2
Sega : Master System, GameGear, Game 1000, Computer 3000
PONG : 60
Sharp : MZ 700, MZ800, MZ 1500, X1, X1 Turbo, X68000
IBM : PC, PCjr
Atari : 2600, 5200, 7800, Jaguar, Lynx
Sony : Pocketstation
Nintendo : Famicaom Disk System, Virtual Boy, Game & Watch, Gameboy, Gameboy Color
Sinclair : ZX Spectrum

Phewwww

Comming in the next update is :-

MAME 0.137
NeoGeo
Amstrad : CPC, GX4000
Acorn : BBC, Electron, Archimedies
Tandy : TRS (all of them)

I hope you enjoy this little update , stay tuned, we are well on our way to 100,000 + roms.

Capcom CP-System 1, 2 and 3 Roms added

Tue Mar 16, 2010 5:56 pm | 0 comments | Hot Trout

Another ROM update and this time is very cool. I have uploaded all three models of Capcom CP-System rom sets. Namely CPS-1, CPS-2 and CPS-3 Roms. Check them out.

I also have added the entire MGT Sam Coupe collection and also updated the Commodore +4 rom section. These sections are now complete and boast the most complete ROM set anywhere.

Enjoy.

!HUGE Rom Update

Mon Mar 15, 2010 6:23 pm | 0 comments | Hot Trout

This time the rom update is truly amazing . 32 new makes and over 40 new formats all uploaded into the new and improved ROM Database. Some of the formats are from very rare machines, the oldest from the 1960's. See the full list below :-

Spectravideo
SVI 318
SVI 328
Robotron
KC85 2-4
KC COmpact
Z1013
Z9001
Research-Machines-RM
Nimbus PC 186
REAL
3DO
RCA
Chip 8
Studio II
Superchip
Soviet-Bloc
ApogeJ BL01
Mikro 80
Mikrosha
Partner 01.01
Radio 86RK
Yut 88
PTC-Sol
Terminal Computer SOL 20
Philips
CD-i
G7000
P2000T
Osborne
Osborne 1
Executive
NCR
Decision V
Nascom
I
II
Microkey
Primo
MicroBee
Mattel
Aquarius
Intellivision
Matsushita-National
JR 200
Matra-Hachette
Alice 32
Luxor
ABC 80
ABC 800
Infocom
Z Machine
Keio-University
K-1
Jupiter-Cantab
Jupiter ACE
Interact
Family Computer
Homelab
Homelab
Hewlett-Packard
HP 48
HP 49
GCE
Vectrex
Fuji
C
Fairchild
Channel F
Saba
Exidy
Sorcerer
ETL
Mark 2
Mark 4
Mark 4a
Entex
Adventure Vision
Emerson
Arcadia 2001
Commodore
Plus4

Current Database stats : 23.18GB, 50,251 roms, 140 systems, 52 makes
Go visit the ROM DATABASE and get downloading and remember, this site is now officially the largest ROM site in the world.

Commodore 64 Disk Images Added

Sun Mar 14, 2010 7:42 pm | 0 comments | Hot Trout

Another ROM update to the new rom engine. A further 1GB of Commodore 64 disk images had now been added. If you have not already done so check out the new ROM ENGINE now.

ROM Update

Thu Mar 11, 2010 12:42 am | 0 comments | Hot Trout

Just completed another significant ROM database update. This time the database has had the following sections added;

Commodore 64, Demos, Blast Collection and Tape Images
Commodore Vic20
PC DOS Boot Disks
Sega Megadrive or Genesis

Also amended were folder names, incorrect rom names and adjustments to the engine itself. The task of moving all roms to the new engine continues.

Upgrade to New Server Complete

Mon Mar 08, 2010 3:38 pm | 0 comments | Hot Trout

The upgrade of our dedicated server has been completed successfully. Operatiing on a Xeon Server with 4GB should now mean we can server hundreds of concurrent connections at any time. A small update to the forums was also carried out. Users should now notice an increase in performance from the site and downloading.

Thanks for your patience during the upgrade.

Board update 3.0.6 to 3.0.7

Wed Mar 03, 2010 11:27 pm | 0 comments | Hot Trout

Forum version has been updated to v3.0.7. Mostly for bug fixes and minor features.

Website Upgrade 8th Mar 2010 @ 10am GMT

Tue Mar 02, 2010 7:40 pm | 0 comments | Hot Trout

IMPORTANT NEWS
PLEASE READ

This website will be offline for maintenance on Monday 8th March 2010 from 10am (GMT) for approx 2-4 hours for an important performance upgrade.

Due to the increased traffic and growth our server is being upgraded to 4GB Ram and a Xeon CPU. We are also increasing our pipe to 100MBit. There will be NO SERVICE during this period but everything should be back online within 2-4 Hours or approx 2PM (GMT). Once we return site use will be even faster

Website User Numbers growing Every Day

Mon Mar 01, 2010 12:20 pm | 0 comments | Hot Trout

Website is back into serious growth mode again. Numbers of users on live at any given time has increased significantly during Feb. Please continue to spread the word about the new development and 40,000 additional roms since Jan 2010.

Permission change for Guests

Sun Feb 28, 2010 12:34 pm | 0 comments | Hot Trout

Guests are no longer permitted to post in the Guestbook. I know this is a contradiction in terms but SPAMMERS have been hitting the Guestbook topic hard for the past two days. Guests are still able to read all topics withn theWELCOME FORUM. Please simply register and you can then see the entire forums as well as the guestbook.

Thanks
HT

Overhauled the BIOS/Boot/OS Roms Section

Fri Feb 26, 2010 7:54 pm | 0 comments | Hot Trout

I have just finished overhauling the BIOS/OS/BOOT Roms section and moved it to the new ROMs database section of the website. The new section is the most complete collection of system Bios images to date and contains over 850 system roms in 51 different platforms.

Stay tuned to the forums for more new releases and updates over the coming weeks.

Enjoy.

Cell Phone JAVA Roms Uploaded

Thu Feb 25, 2010 7:51 pm | 0 comments | Hot Trout

The latest addition to the roms database has just been completed. The new section is a first for this site, a complete collection of Java based Cell Phone or Mobile Phone games and applications. These roms should work on most if not all Java based phones. They have been tested on a Motorola RZR phone sucessfully.

There are as follows :-

Java Applications x 21
Java Games x 1000

As always just follow the link below to the new rom database.
www.theoldcomputer.com/roms