Links
Collected here is a sundry lot of sites related to most all of my interests, including resources and softwares which I've found indispensible.
Our Friends
lolwut's site | "The Internet is Serious Business!" |
arka.li | Pictures, articles, and projects pertaining to tech and other things. |
Kinisis Web | Collection of a friend's interests and musings. |
Web-Site-Ring | A weblog listing old websites, Bible verses, and, on occasion, other web-related resources. |
Robert Buchanan | Rich with miscellany pertaining to old media and more. |
MIDI
MIDI Files
MIDI Playback
VirtualMIDISynth | Replaces the shoddy default Windows MIDI synth with a customisable interface with soundfont support. |
Timbres of Heaven | A quite large, high quality soundfont with a focus on realism. |
GeneralUser GS | A very small and optimised, yet high-quality soundfont. |
vanBasco's Karaoke Player | This flashy player displays karaoke lyrics for MIDI songs that have them. |
Internet Radio
chiru.no | High-quality streaming of anime, game, and doujin music. |
Dvorcafe | Krajinan music forum with internet radio. |
Novel Games
Translators & Translations
Insani | Home of the greatest pioneering group of novel game translation. |
narcissu.gwathyr.net | Mirror offering old downloads related to Narcissu. |
RadicalR | The translators of Kanon and several other classic games. |
Engines, Extraction, & References
Ports to Other Platforms
GBA develop Wiki | Japanese site containing full ports and other projects pertaining to novel games for the Game Boy Advance. |
GBA develop legacy page | An older incarnation of the above link, with screenshots. |
Inside-cap archive | Wayback Machine mirror of a group which ported several VNs to GBA, in addition to skillfully sequencing music for them. |
Odin VN ports | A few ancient attempts to get Tsukihime, One 2, ToHeart, and Air running on OS/2 through Odin. |
ONScripter for OS/2 | The OS/2 packages linked on Ogapee's site are dead, so here is one working download. Outdated. |
Games
Operating Systems
OpenBSD | The world's first proactively secure UNIX-like operating system. |
Slackware | The oldest Linux distro still maintained, ideal for learners and tinkerers. |
eComStation | An updated but conservative distro of the classic IBM OS/2 operating system. |
Required Windows Software
Total Commander | Featureful, stable, and classic; Total Commander is the greatest file manager to grace any operating system. |
IrfanView | The original lightweight, customisable, and versatile image viewer. |
WINAMP | It still whips the llama's ass. |
MPV | This video player is a must, especially for those who take frequent screenshots and seek through frames. |
Free Video Compressor | Cut and compress videos with this great interface for ffmpeg. |
Ripcord | Custom client for Discord, extremely lightweight. |
The GIMP | A Free and Open Source image editor that puts paid equivalents to shame. |
OTVDM Guide | A guide which will, if followed, allow you to run Win16 programs on your latest x64 machine. |
CrystalDiskInfo | A pretty young lady will give you a rundown of the wear on your HDDs and SSDs. |
Resource Hacker | Resource Hacker can extract and replace icons and edit strings in Windows executables and DLLs. |
Inexperience Patcher | Restores all possible Windows XP resources to their proper Windows 2000-style counterparts. |
OS/2 Software & Resources
Hobbes | Archive of OS/2 software and many other historical odds-and-ends; one of the most visited sites on the early net. |
Odin | Allows some Win32 applications to run natively on OS/2. |
Odin VN ports | A few ancient attempts to get Tsukihime, One 2, ToHeart, and Air running on OS/2 through Odin. |
ONScripter for OS/2 | The OS/2 packages linked on Ogapee's site are dead, so here is one working download. Outdated. |
Recommended Mobile Software
Total Commander | Also the best file manager on Android and Windows CE. |
F-Droid | Free and Open Source app store for Android that offers many things which Jewgle will not. |
Miscellaneous