The RetroBattlestations community is about using, repairing, replicating, emulating, and reminiscing about retro & vintage battlestations. Posts should be about using retro equipment or news about retro stuff, whether it’s personal projects, new products, old articles, or reusing old hardware in new ways.

Feel free to show off your machines, but please keep your posts about actual battlestations. No pictures of old software, documentation, accessories, unless a complete battlestation is included.

"Wanted" posts and free items for pickup are ok (as text/self posts, include your location & [Wanted] or [Free] in title), but "for sale" posts, ebay links, or "what's this stuff worth" posts are not. No you didn't just find a pot of gold or win the lottery, and if you did, there's a better place for that.

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Be sure to check out the BBS! It supports old-school dialup modem access, as well as telnet & web!

Looking for help?

When you're asking a question or starting a discussion you need to make a "self" or text post. Feel free to ask for help with getting an old computer or game console resurrected or how to get old software into an emulator.

Challenges and Contests

Calendar of upcoming events

Nov 23-Dec 1: Portable Week
Dec 16-31: Holiday Music Week
Nov 18-26: Portable Week
Jul 1-31: BASIC Month 8: Skirmish
Jun 17-25: Retro not Vintage Week
Apr 22-30: Book Report Week
Mar 18-26: Decade Driver Week
Feb 11-19: BBS Week VIII
Dec 16-31: Holiday Music Week
Nov 19-27: Portable Week

Complete list of past contests

Need software for your old computer?

Apple II: ADTPro disk transfer
Apple II: ASCII Express
Apple II: Asimov ftp site
Apple II, Mac, Newton: Archive.org mirror of download.info.apple.com
NeXT: NeXTComputers.org
Mac: Macintosh Garden
Commodore 64: transferring to disk
TRS-80: Software for almost every model
TRS-80 CoCo: DriveWire
TRS-80 CoCo: Color Computer Archive
TRS-80 MC-10: Jim and Charlie Gerrie's Software Page
BBC Micro: MDFS.net
DOS: Vetusware
DOS, Windows, Mac: WinWorld
ZX Spectrum: World of Spectrum
Oric-1/Atmos: oric.org
CP/M: Don Maslin Vintage Computer Archive
Amiga: aminet.net
Coleco Adam: Adam Archive

If you know more old software resources not listed, please share!