You might like to look at QuestStudios.com. It covers old sound cards.

I wish someone from http://www.cpu-museum.de/forum would get back to me. That used to be a good forum about 6 or 7 years ago from what I can see but has been overrun with spammers. Does anybody here know anyone who was a moderator over there? That place could still be salvageable if they would give mod power to someone who was interested in maintaining it.

Yeah, I used to frequent cpu-museum.de myself a lot years ago and saw spammers completely overtook that forum. What a waste...

http://www.digitpress.com counts, I think. http://www.hardcoregaming101.net is vaguely in the same ballpark as well. But both of those are more focused on the games rather than the hardware, oddly enough.

Nothing but here.

Over the years I've surfed I think nearly all these sites- planet3dnow, cpu-world, k6plus, vintage-computer, even mac sites like lowendmac which discusses old macs and the puppy linux forums - which have some info on old systems since it's a light distro.

However, since coming across this place nearly 2 years ago I find the need to go elsewhere for retro info to be very minimal.

http://www.uncreativelabs.net/phpBB2/ also focuses on early PCs, XTs and ATs, but not so many posts as in Vintage Computer forums.

Nothing else but here. Although many years ago I used to browse OldOS's forums quite often - the site hasn't been updated in about 2 years however.

Just don't really have much free time for browsing the interwebs anymore. 😒

English Amiga Board, as there's hardly anything Amiga being discussed here.

Long time back I used to go to jagshouse.com for 68k Mac issues. He had a lot of trouble with the forum at one point. I think it's still there but not as lively as it was.

There is also zone6400.com, which is still around too though it looks like nothing much gets posted there. Haven't really used it for a long time.

bp6.com is still up as well, although my attempt to register there last year [so I could download bp6-related bios etc files] got nowhere. Again, pretty much a fossil and no longer a living forum.

3dfxzone.it doesn't seem to have got a mention yet, that one is still properly "alive".

There's also dosforum.de, my German is too poor to read much there though, I mainly just use the sound.dosforum.de page.

OCAU (Overclockers Australia) is quite a good forum. Lots of clever people. There is another forum: Whirlpool. I like both forums, but most stick with one or the other.

I have spent some time on queststudios, but it's a very quiet forum. Most of the knowledge can be found in past posts, so browsing through these will get you some amazing insight. Likely the best resource for MIDI / Roland related questions.

VOGONS's however is my favourite for Retro. The information in the archive is simply breathtaking. So much knowledge and it's also very busy with fresh blood joining all the time.

IMO the DOSBox forum should be split up and have their own site, but otherwise it's THE resource, mostly because there are a lot of people here with fantastic knowledge and experience who can answer tricky / complex questions without any dramas.

Mau1wurf1977 wrote:

OCAU (Overclockers Australia) is quite a good forum. Lots of clever people.

I second that! Have come across some very interesting projects involving retro hardware there.

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this one is interesting for me https://retrocomputingforum.com/

Well classicplatforms sounded interesting but it's dead now, anyone know if it moved/evolved?

Not sure if the Vintage-computer site now is the same as the one then, because the one I get now seems overdesigned and undercontented or else the design keeps you away from the content.

However, for early '00s stuff I end up digging up the old stuff in anandtech or overclockers forums.