Links
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3D animation
www.blender.org
=> Homepage of the 3D modeling tool "Blender3D". It's completely free and renders astonishing images. However, it takes some time learn how to handle it.
www.3dcafe.com
=> Tutorials, models and textures for 3ds max and others.
www.3dkingdom.com
=> Tutorials, models and stuff regarding 3D animation
Programming
www.programmersheaven.com
=> A source for downloading free programming files, source code, tools and more for a whole range of languages and technologies, including VB, C/C++/C#, .NET and Java.
www.codeguru.com
=> Explanations, tutorials, code and further help for all common programming languages.
validator.w3.org
=> With this web-based tool, you can check, if your HTML is valid, according to the official HTML 4.01 specification.
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/
=> Check, if your CSS files are valid, according to the official W3C CSS specification.
http://www.flos-freeware.ch/
=> Home of "Notepad2", a very puristic, but highly efficient, fast and usable code editor (supports several customizable syntax highlighting schemes)
Alternative operating systems
www.ubuntulinux.org
=> Very user friendly, easy to install Linux distribution, also suitable for Linux beginners
www.linuxfromscratch.org
=> Interesting documentation project with detailled step-by-step instructions on how to build one's own Linux distribution
www.gentoo.org
=> Linux distribution for advanced users with automated compile scripts during installation; You don't have to install pre-compiled binaries, if you don't want to; Highly customizable
www.freedos.org
=> FreeDOS is a complete, free, 100% MS-DOS compatible operating system; suitable for real DOS machines, emulators and embedded systems
Retro gaming, emulators and music
=> DOS-Forum (A german message board, dealing with DOS, the computers that run it and of course the games of that era)
dosbox.sourceforge.net
=> X86 emulator with DOS, compatible to many classic DOS games; Available for multiple platforms
www.zsnes.com
=> Mighty SNES emulator for DOS / WIN32 / Linux
gens.consolemul.com
=> Very mature Genesis, 32X and Mega CD emulator
www.winuae.net
=> Commodore Amiga emulator
www.viceteam.org
=> Emulator for old Commodore home computers including the C64, C128 and VIC-20; It runs on several operating systems such as Windows, DOS, BeOS, OS/2 and Unix.
www.c64games.de
=> Great collection of C64 games (disk images) and C64 game music (SID music files)
www.thelegacy.de
=> Retro games museum
www.the-underdogs.org
=> Large database of downloadable abandonware DOS games
www.abandonia.com
=> Great collection of DOS classics (abandonware)
jonof.edgenetwork.org
=> Win32 port of the old DOS game "Duke Nukem 3D", now with OpenGL support
www.modarchive.com
=> Huge music archive of module music / trackers
www.mirsoft.info
=> Very large game music collection featuring trackers and MIDI music
www.scenemusic.net
=> MP3 radio, broadcasting scene and game music 24/7 :-)
Miscellaneous
=> ImageShack is hosting images (e.g. JPEG or GIF) of up to 1024 kilobytes without any charge or ads. Nice service!
=> The TPM (Trusted Platform Module) has been invented to support license and copy protection on the hardware level. The user is therefore protected against viruses and malicious software for example, but there are also disadvantages, such as the loss of anonymity. AgainstTCPA deals with this topic.
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