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Games
Boardgames
- Baduki
(A graphical Go program)
- Chess
(I've got a whole section on this)
- GNU Go
(console based, but very strong. This page also has some
very nice links to other Go resources)
- Cgoban
(Complete Goban... the Go counterpart to Xboard)
Other Games
Government
Hardware
Health
Internet
- Alertbox: Current Issues in User Interface Design
- Alertbox (Archive on SUN)
- Browsers (You thought that Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator were
the only players in the game? Think again! I've tried to limit this list to weed out
most of the hundreds of superficial add-ons and plug-ins pretending
to be browsers in their own right.)
- Amaya
(this is the new W3C testbed editor/browser. replacing Arena.)
- Arachne (runs in DOS)
- Arena
(The previous W3C testbed editor. It's been replaced by Amaya.)
- Ariadna
(A Russian browser with which I'm not familiar. CNet's blurb looks
promising though)
- Browse2000.
This is by Sabine Consulting. I haven't yet tried the product, but
I can tell you with all objectivity that Sabine's website sucks.
However, since Browse2000 and its sister product FTPPro2000 are so
small, I'll try it out anyway. This is a shareware product,
registration fee unknown.)
- Emissary
(From Attachmate. Includes a File-manager style interface for FTP)
- Grasshopper
(an MDI front end for Internet Explorer. Looks similar to Opera,
but requires IE4 be installed. This one's brand new)
- HotJava
(Sun Microsystems' lightweight browser written entirely in Java)
- Lynx
(text-based browser, runs on multiple platforms. It was developed
at the University of Kansas' Advanced Computing Services. You can
find more
about that, and a history
of Lynx,)
- Microsoft Internet Explorer
- Mozilla
(Mozilla is the Open Source version of Netscape)
- NCSA Mosaic
(this started it all!)
- NeoPlanet
(This looks like a new front end on MS Internet Explorer. They
provide themes, a channel toolbar that's vaguely reminiscent of
Opera's favorites panel, etc. (although why you'd want to apply a
theme to just the browser is beyond me!))
- Netscape Navigator
- Opera
(this is very cool! It's small and fast)
- QWeb.
It's for Linux, it's graphical, looks pretty good, and it's *small*
- Common Gateway Interface (CGI)
- Cyber Office Central (virtual offices)
- FastCGI
- Hobbes' Internet Timeline
- Hotwired
- HTML 3.2 Reference Specification
- InterNIC
- Servers
- SiteOwner at LinkExchange
(submission and web site inspection utilities)
- Web Pages That Suck
- World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
Internet Drafts
Internet Search Engines
General Search
People, Businesses, and Addresses
Legal
Liberty
Miscellaneous
News & Opinion
Broadcast and Web
Newspapers
Magazines
Syndicated Columns
- Town Hall
(Conservative News, Commentary, and Live Chat)
Operating Systems
(See also Classic Computers and
Emulators)
Operating Systems on the Web
History of MS-DOS
- Jim Trageser's Computer Links.
Excellent source of information.
- BeOS
this simply looks fabulous!
- BSD
I believe that development has halted on this one.
- CP/M
This was Digital Research's Control Program /Monitor, the precursor to MS-DOS.
- DR-DOS
- GEM
This is Digital Research's "Graphic Environment
Manager". I successfully used Digital Research's
GEM on my Tandy 1000TX for quite some time and still have the
install disks! GEM Publisher whas terrific for its time.
In modified form (under the name TOS), this was the OS of the Atari
ST. The source code to GEM has now been released as
FREE SOFTWARE under the GNU
GPL LICENSE!
- GEOS
(NewDeal) can you
believe that this is still kicking? The first version I saw
was for the Commodore 64. Now it appears to have beat Windows
CE to the embedded systems punch! It's used in the Brother
Geobook and the Nokia 9000 telephone (!) among other things.
There's also an "Unofficial
Web Page". I've purchased NewDeal's SchoolSuite and
it's happily running an old 386 laptop I've got that's too wimpy for
Windows.
- Linux
- Macintosh OS, OS X
- Multics
(Multiplexed Information and Computing Service) This was the
precursor to Unix, and is proof that the more things change, the
more they stay the same. Multics pre-dated the current trend of
application servers by about 30 years.
- OS/2
remarkably strong after all this time, if a bit stuffy.
- Unix
- VMS
- Windows 3.x, 95, 98, CE, NT
one big happy family.
- X-Windows
not really an OS, but then neither is Windows 3.x or 95.
A free version exists
Pretty Good Privacy
Reference
General Reference
Programmers' Reference
Also see Computer Languages
- Developer.COM
Programmers' reference site
- GNOME
Development Site. Lots of programming standards, next to no
mention of the Human Interface.
- Isys Information Architects
home of the Interface Hall of Fame (and Shame). Absolutely terrific
advice on designing Human Interfaces.
- KDE Standards.
Unlike Gnome, KDE provides a Style Guide to assist you in creating
the Human Interface.
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