PD Introduction

V1.3 - May 1996

These pages written for you are all about the Spectrum PD scene at the moment and other things too. Yes, it exists!

They were written by John Garner who believes that he has the relevant knowledge (and enough of it) to write coherently about it. Please feel free to disagree. I've got the privilege of being allowed on this site (my university isn't quite ready for us yet) so let's see what there is.

Other related sites

Icabod's Convention pages
Theo Develegas (aka the Devil) pages, quite heavy on graphics
Fuxoft's site (select the X on this screen to get somewhere with something on it)
Mez's pages
Technium 220 Web Pages - not quite up and running yet! (There's always my pages on the group in the meantime)

General Speccy sites

Spectrum Forever homepage - where these pages used to be.
Spectrum FAQ
Spectrum Switchboard - find most of the links on the web (ftp, http, etc) for the Spectrum
FTP site (the main demo ftp site at ftp.nvg.ntnu.no)
Hacker Chris FTP site (if it works, I think he's changed his address)
Spectrum Most Wanted, Snapshots, requests, and other links.

Back to these pages...

Virtually all articles except some in the usergroup section are written by me and have been updated recently, so take a look.
They should all have a standard footer with links to this page, the Spectrum Forever homepage at nvg and at least one other.

Usergroups: General user groups, clubs etc.
PD Contacts: PD Libraries, coders and other addresses to write to.
Groups Quick Index - a shortlist of Demo teams and usergroups with seperate pages, some written by the groups themselves.
What is PD / Shareware?: some helpful information (by Prism PD)
PD Software: Lists of my demos, games, and utilities or miscellaneous programs and files.
Where can you get it? Try PD libraries or some ftp sites stock snapshots of various types for emulators.

I thought that I ought to say that you shouldn't just write to coders and groups as free suppliers of software, it's kind of an exclusive club for coders. I'm sure most won't mind receiving letters, but don't expect something for nothing.

Some things people have said!

Just for my ego, you understand...

"*really* impressed" (Theo)
"very good!" (Cyberlife)
"The best Spectrum demo and usergroup web pages around" (me - ok so I had to do it!)

About me
Spectrum Forever homepage

File last updated: 17 May 1996
Author: John Garner / jmg7@ukc.ac.uk