Links
Collected here is a sundry lot of sites related to most all of my interests, including resources and softwares which I've found indispensible.
MIDI
MIDI Files
MIDI Playback
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VirtualMIDISynth | Replaces the shoddy default Windows MIDI synth with a customisable interface with soundfont support. |
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Timbres of Heaven | A quite large, high quality soundfont with a focus on realism. |
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GeneralUser GS | A very small and optimised, yet high-quality soundfont. |
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vanBasco's Karaoke Player | This flashy player displays karaoke lyrics for MIDI songs that have them. |
Internet Radio
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chiru.no | High-quality streaming of anime, game, and doujin music. |
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Dvorcafe | Krajinan music forum with internet radio. |
Visual Novel
Translators & Translations
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Insani | Home of the greatest pioneering group of visual novel translation. |
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narcissu.gwathyr.net | Mirror offering old downloads related to Narcissu. |
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RadicalR | The translators of Kanon and several other classic games. |
Engines, Extraction, and References
Games
Operating Systems
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OpenBSD | The world's first proactively secure UNIX-like operating system. |
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Slackware | The oldest Linux distro still maintained, ideal for learners and tinkerers. |
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eComStation | An updated but conservative distro of the classic IBM OS/2 operating system. |
Required Windows Software
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Total Commander | Featureful, stable, and classic, Total Commander is the greatest file manager to grace any operating system. |
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IrfanView | The original lightweight, customisable, and versatile image viewer. |
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WINAMP | It still whips the llama's ass. |
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MPV | This video player is a must, especially for those who take frequent screenshots and seek through frames. |
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Ripcord | Custom client for Discord, extremely lightweight. |
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The GIMP | A Free and Open Source image editor that puts paid equivalents to shame. |
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OTVDM Guide | A guide which will, if followed, allow you to run Win16 programs on your latest x64 machine. |
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CrystalDiskInfo | A pretty young lady will give you a rundown of the wear on your HDDs and SSDs. |
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Resource Hacker | Resource Hacker can extract and replace icons and edit strings in Windows executables and DLLs. |
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Inexperience Patcher | Restores all possible Windows XP resources to their proper Windows 2000-style counterparts. |
OS/2 Software & Resources
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Hobbes | Archive of OS/2 software and many other historical odds-and-ends; one of the most visited sites on the early net. |
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Odin | Allows some Win32 applications to run natively on OS/2. |
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Odin VN ports | A few ancient attempts to get Tsukihime, One 2, To Heart, and Air running on OS/2 through Odin. |
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ONScripter for OS/2 | The OS/2 packages linked on Ogapee's site are dead, so here is one working download. Outdated. |
Recommended Mobile Software
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Total Commander | Also the best file manager on Android and Windows CE. |
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F-Droid | Free and Open Source app store for Android that offers many things which Jewgle will not. |
Miscellaneous
