Commodore Amiga

This multimedia computer first appeared in 1985 a decade before the term was widespread. It brought advanced computer graphics, animation and sound to the home desktop – years ahead of the competition – at an affordable price along with an impressive and efficient (if initially garish) pre-emptive multitasking operating system. It could also play some pretty good games.

• South West Amiga Group (a.k.a. SWAG) – perhaps the largest UK Amiga User Group revived for some years now with meetings several times a year near Bristol and now one in Devon.
• Amiga North Thames – good friends of SWAG based a bit further east.
• Yorkshire Amiga Group – more friends of SWAG with lots of meetings around Yorkshire but it feels like they’ll be down south before much longer.
• Kickstart Amiga Group – the revived original Amiga Kickstart events meeting regularly to the west of London with the odd BBQ on the side.
• Amiga Addict – a modern print magazine for the Amiga created in the UK
• AmigaKit
• Amiberry
• Amiga fonts
• AmigaOS Documentation

Acorn

Acorn made groundbreaking computers in the UK in the 1980s and 1990s – in particular the BBC Micro which occupied most UK schools in that period. They then created some niche computer chip known as ARM…

• https://stardot.org.uk – The place for help, information, advice and discussion about all things todo with Acorn computers.
• BBC Micro Teletext fonts – Bedstead
• http://bbcmicrogames.com

General

• The National Museum of Computing (TNMOC) – an amazing museum charting the history of computing based on the site of Bletchley Park. But don’t be confused – it’s a separate museum independent of Bletchey Park.
• https://retro.directory – A directory of all things Retro Computing across Planet Earth.
• https://www.vintageisthenewold.com