Here have an excellent site for all you C64 music remix fans out there. It's basically the home of the C64 music remixing community! The site contains interviews with C64 musicians and remixers, reviews of hundreds of C64 remixes (along with links so you can download them) and an excellent chat forum where remixers, musicians and C64 music fans hang out (myself included!)

My excellent coding chum Jon Wells has recently resurrected his C64 conversion of the classic Firebird game 'The Wild Bunch'. Jon will be releasing a LIMITED EDITION version of the game on tape at the end of the year. To follow the progress of this great retro project click the banner above!

Possibly the finest C64 game creation utility in the whole universe has had a 2008 upgrade courtesy of legendary C64 coder Jon Wells. Now you can create SIDEWAYS shoot 'em ups with SEUCK with the brand new 'Sideways Shoot Em Up Construction Kit'! For more info about the package and to download it for FREE click the banner above!

And here's another site from Jon Wells! Retro Bits deals with all classic old and more modern retro computers and consoles. Retro Bits mail order shop stocks software and bits for anything retro computer related for collectors of classic machines such as Commodore 64, Spectrum, Amstrad, Atari and many more!

This is a very slick site lovingly crafted together by TMR of Cosine and is the home of the C64 division of Cosine Systems. The site contains details about Cosine releases and members, downloadable C64 Cosine demos, info about Commodore Zone + more. It's worth seeing just for the nice presentation!

What would C64 graphics look like if the little beast was capable of kicking out PC resolutions ? Click the banner above to find out! Kudos to me old mate Matrix for putting together this very stylish site featuring plenty of old-skool bitmap love!

This great site is run by Compunet hero Mike 'Kernal' Berry. It's really nicely presented with an excellent use of C64 sprites and graphics. The site contains plenty of interesting info and fun things to do. Well worth a peek.

Here we have what is basically the best online C64 radio station in the whole world, EVER. Streaming classic Commodore 64 remixes 24 hours a day and now featuring a tasty new redesigned site! You can tune in using Winamp - click the banner above and visit the site which features a list of available streams.

Would you like over 30,000 C64 tunes which can be played on your PC using SidPlay? Then what you need is the "The High Voltage SID Collection"! This is easily the best (and most expansive) SID collection that is currently available on the Internet and new tunes are being added all the time.

This superbly presented and extremely comprehensive site from Frank Gasking features long lost C64 games. There's info on many rare game titles and you can actually download and play a lot of them!

Ever wondered what was at the end of your fave C64 game? Tired of wrestling with your joystick (oo-er) while attempting to defeat that darned end-of game bad-guy - only to be trodden on and lose your last life before you can glimpse the ending? Then have no fear, my good chum Vinny Mainolfi is here! His great website contains loads of C64 game endings that you can download and watch until your hearts content!

Here we have a nice site devoted to Commodore emulation on the Macintosh. So if your computer is apple flavoured rather than, erm, PC flavoured then check out the site for all your C64 related Mac emulation needs. And even if you don't use a Mac go ahead and visit the site anyway, it contains plenty of interesting Commodore related info!

Protovision offer a fantastic range of commercial quality C64 games and are constantly releasing new titles for our beloved beige breadbin. They have recently released the amazing 'Metal Dust' which is the world's first C64 SuperCPU game! Click on the banner above for more details about their superb range of products.

Mayhem, the cutest baby dinosaur ever to set foot in Monsterland is BACK in an all-new adventure on mobile phone platforms! Produced by John & Steve Rowlands, the same team that brought you the classic C64 version of 'Mayhem in Monsterland'! Click the banner to visit the excellent site featuring gorgeous pixel graphics by Steve Rowlands! For details of other projects from the Apex boys visit their Infinite Lives site.

Here's the latest incarnation of "XLCUS" software - the "Home Of Those Crazed Idiot Software Coderz!" (as the old site used to say!) This new site features some nice musical dabblings from "icklePaul" along with downloadable games and various other goodies.

The Commodore Zone is a website dedicated to the Commodore 64 computer. Its purpose is to provide you with the best 64 emulators and games available. T-C-Z is updated on a monthly basis and features plenty of interesting C64 related content.

Here's a great site filled with retro goodliness from my chum "The Mighty Boz"! It contains a nice selection of C64 tunes remixed by Boz along with assorted other tasty titbits. Well worth a surf!

Retro 247 - The place to be for great game downloads with old school retro game play. Featuring Retro Remakes, Freeware, an online Retro Arcade and games for Windows and the Mac.

This excellent site is devoted to the classic 'Last Ninja' series of games from System 3. It features loads of Ninja related goodies including news about 'Last Ninja 4', artwork from the games, Last Ninja music and much more. This site is definitely well worth a look if you are a fan of this superb games trilogy.

A fabulous site from the hairy beastie known as Jeff 'Yak' Minter! He was responsible for oodles of classic C64 games including 'Attack of the Mutant Camels', 'Batalyx' and 'Iridis Alpha' etc. etc. Visit his site for games, fluffly sheepies and other assorted weirdness ...

Here we have the homepage of the prolific C64 musician Johan "Zyron" Åstrand. There's LOTS of his great music to download (including plenty of nice Mpegs) and I particularly like the C64 tunes which he has enhanced with extra drum beats etc. Well worth an explore!

Do you remember the cool Compunet duo Ian + Mic? I darn well hope so cos they put out some cool demos, ran a great PD library called "Wicked PD" and are, in a roundabout way, responsible for Binary Zone PD coming into existence! One half of the dynamic due, Mic Jones, has put together this splendid website which contains oodles of info about Ian+Mic along with some downloadable warez. Note: The website requires Java and Shockwave support.

The SoundWavers have produced some extremely impressive C64 remixes which are available in mp3 format for download from their great website. I was amazed with the 'Cher' style vocal effects in their mix of Mega Apocalypse and since then they have released more great C64 remixes including a Kraftwerk inspired version of Hawkeye (YESS!), a brilliantly bizarre mix of Fairlight + more!! Note: The website is presented using MacroMedia Flash technology.

This website features literally HUNDREDS of Spectrum, Commodore 64 and Amstrad CPC game loading screens. There's some REALLY excellent 8-bit art on this site and it's really interesting to compare the loading screens on the different machines. I had a real nostalgia trip seeing some of these pics again, it brought back fond memories of all the time spent waiting for those classic games to load!

If C64 music remixes are your thing then you really should check out this great site. It features HUNDREDS of cool C64 music remakes with new tracks being added all the time. The site is nicely laid out and is very easy to navigate so you shouldn't have too much trouble finding remixes of all your fave C64 choons. And if it's C64 remixes on CD you are after then don't forget to check out c64audio.com!

The aim of the SEUCK Vault is to gather together the very best games created with SEUCK on the Commodore 64 and the Amiga. The site contains a great selection of games you can download by SEUCK heroes including Frank Gasking, Shaun Pearson, The Art Ravers + many more!

This excellent site is very nicely laid out and features gallons of classic C64 games (over 2500!) which you can download (including some obscure titles), a plethora of game covers, C64 game reviews + much more. Definitely worth a visit if you're a C64 gamer!!

I love this neat site! It's dedicated to my fave C64 game of all time and contains plenty of interesting info about the game, the programmers, versions of the game on other formats etc. The site is very tidily presented with plenty of nice screenshots throughout. This is definitely one of the best sites devoted to a classic game that I have seen.

Here's a cool site put together by an old pal of mine, Iain Black. It contains bags of info about my all time fave C64 mag - Zzap! 64 along with info about various other C64 mags (Your Commodore, Commodore User, Commodore Format etc.) There's also gallons of C64 files which you can download. Great stuff!

Here's the rather splendid homepage of Gordon 'Zzap! Ed' Houghton. It contains contains his personal insight into his time working for the mighty Zzap!64, photos of the Zzap! team, lots of Commodore 64 type capers along with oodles of info about Gordon's various writings and his life in general. If this site was a game and it was reviewed in Zzap! then it would indeed sizzle! Top stuff.

Retrovision is a hands on retro gaming event that lets you get to grips (literally) with classic retro gaming machines from Commodore, Atari, Sinclair and Apple etc. Visit the Retrovision website for full details about forthcoming events, photos and reviews of past events, info about the team, a cool screensaver and more!

CGE UK was a superb retro event held in Croydon in 2004. The Binary Zone mob exhibited at the show and had a fantastic weekend meeting fellow retro fiends, getting down to some SERIOUS retro gaming, fondling a Commodore 65, hijacking a Sinclair C5 and other retro shenaingans. They also met the legendary Matthew Smith, programmer of Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy on the Speccy. EPIC! Click the banner above to visit the site which contains info and pictures from the event along with details about future CGE UK events.

Oldschool Gaming is yer one-stop shop for new games on classic platforms and 'retro' titles for modern hardware. OSG is a combined review site for new titles on machines like the Commodore 64, Sinclair Spectrum and Atari 2600 as well as a resource site for would-be oldschool developers.

Other sites worth a peek!


The Bits Grab Fest

This is a little 'pet project' of mine. As I couldn't find any sites which contained decent pics of the girls who present the Channel 4 show 'Bits' I decided to make my own! There's quite literally HUNDREDS of pics of the girls on the site so far and I'll keep adding more (as and when I get them!) You may notice a SLIGHT bias towards Emily 'Bouff' Booth - this is because she was the reason I made the site in the first place!!

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Preferred Image

Here's where you can find some examples of rendering work done by my buddy Mat Recardo. Mat has helped me out a great deal with the construction of the BZ site and has produced some of the nice logo's and animated thingies scattered around these pages. Mat actually produced all the CGI scenes (and some digital editing) for my Xmas Chortles 2 movie which is NOW AVAILABLE ON DVD at long last!!

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Thalamus Interactive

Thalamus Interactive are a fresh, dynamic new digital media company, specialising in a variety of key entertainment areas, including Video Game creation, Internet & Website design, Graphics, and Creative / Technical authoring. They are currently seeking dedicated, experienced freelance programmers and artists to work on a number of hand-held projects for Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance. If you are interested please click on the banner above to visit their website.

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Redshift

This site contains info about British synth musician Mark Shreeve's 'Redshift' music project. Mark has produced plenty of awesome synth tracks in the past and the classic analogue sounds used on the 'Red Shift' CD's kicks ass! Definitely worth a visit if synth music is your thang.

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Garbled Communications UK

I was pointed in the direction of this cool on-line 'Zine by Simon Bailey, one of it's contributors and an ardent Daisy Donovan fan to boot. It's packed with choice titbits including film, TV and album reviews, a hefty music section, humour and oodles more. You'd be mad to miss it (as they say in the publishing world!).

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The Unofficial 11 O'Clock Show Website

And talking of Simon Bailey, here's his 100% Unofficial 11 O'Clock Show website which is packed with stuff about ... wait for it ... The 11 O'Clock Show!! There's facts about the show, the people who appear therein and, more importantly, oodles of stuff about the delicious Daisy Donovan (and pics too!) What more could you possibly want?!

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Cold Storage

This rather fine website comes courtesy of my chum Tim Wright who was responsible for many a fine computer game theme (including classics like Shadow of the Beast 2 and 3 and WipeOut!) The site contains oodles of excellent quality mp3's and Amiga mods that you can download totally for free and Tim has even remastered many of his tracks specially for the website!

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Music Archives

If you, like me, are a fan of SNES (Super Nintendo) game music then head on over to this great site produced by Andrew Laggan (he of the SCREEN$ site fame!) His nicely presented site features a plethora of downloadable SNES tunes (including Tim Follin classics like Plok!, Spiderman and Rock & Roll Racing). There's even a hidden C64 section on there too!

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