Area 50 is a collection of unusual, difficult, or simply lightly documented projects. Much of the information in Area 50 is intended for experienced hobbyists - not beginners. The information may be incomplete or even incorrect and readers are assumed to have sufficient knowledge of the areas covered to evaluate the suitability and veracity of the information. Many projects will have kernels of information that are useful for other purposes and those will be mentioned at the end of the page.
Free fonts have met their match. We know how hard it is to find quality freeware that is licensed for commercial work. We've done the hard work, hand-selecting these typefaces and presenting them in an easy-to-use format.
This is a playground (and dump) of stuff I made, modified, researched, or found for the Flipper Zero.
There's a lot of everything in here, from customized apps, BadUSB scripts, hardware specs for modders, GPIO interface shenanagains and interface pinouts, hardware troubleshooting, sound and music stuff, and sub-GHz captures and dissections for just about everything. It's an impressive collection.
A website where every file can be downloaded over a 2400 bit per second connection.
There are many people in the world whose best Internet connection is 2400 bps. There are many computers in the world which can't handle high-speed connections either. This site offers manually selected computing resources that can be downloaded under 10 minutes on a 2400 bps internet connection (or about 2ms over a one megabit per second connection).
A showcase of unusual or interesting manuals.
A collection of manuals for Tandy and Radio Shack branded stuff. Size of archive: Over 12,500 separate documents.
The Internet Archive Manual Library is a collection of manuals, instructions, walkthroughs and datasheets for a massive spectrum of items. Manuals covering electronic and mechanical products, instructions on mixing or blending items, and instruction sets for software and computer items are all included.
Having the manual for an item can mean the difference between that item being useful (and therefore not immediately junked) and being forgotten, or replaced with similar products. They also give insight into the intentions and goals of the companies making these products, as well as avenues of troubleshooting and repair.
This site is maintained as a memorial for Geoff, who tragically passed away at the age of 38 after living with cancer for many years. Those who knew him remember a kind, gentle soul full of generosity and warmth for friends, family, his students, and small fuzzy creatures. He was known as a talented researcher and teacher in academic circles, but few knew that Geoff was also a dedicated game developer and programmer in his off-hours.
NakedMUD's development began at the tail-end of Geoff's undergraduate years at the University of Alberta (2004-2005), and then continued at a measured pace during his graduate student years at University of Cincinnati's Masters of Experimental Psychology program (2006-2008). After being admitted to the Experimental Psychology Ph.D program (2008-2009), NakedMUD received a couple more years of bug fixes, feature additions and updates.
This is Geoff's site, maintained exactly as he left it before the University deleted his webspace. Some of the links/additional downloads remain unavailable. Thanks to the efforts of fellow software preservationists @avidal, @stevestreza, @crawfordsm and @lewiscowles1986, most of Geoff's source code for NakedMUD has been located and restored to this site.
Forbidden Stories ensures that journalists under threat can secure their information. We provide them with the ability to drop their sensitive information into one of our secure communication channels. If something happens to them, we will ensure the survival of their stories, beyond borders, beyond governments, beyond censorship.
Various Stock Photos where attempts were made to capture the "modern" world.
Defcon 1-29. Video, audio, papers, pictures (lots of pictures), filler material, music and programs.
1.8 TB in size. Good luck.
The sister site of the Sunbow Marvel Archive, dedicated to the digital preservation of scripts, storyboards and other production material from 1980s animation. This is an unofficial site which has no affiliation with any company responsible for the commission or production of the cartoons depicted herein.
While Macworld and MacUser capture the history of the Macintosh, Byte nicely captures the history of the entire personal computer industry from the early days (Sept 1975) through July 1998 (just two issues shy of 23 years).
Here for your reading pleasure are the first and second installment of the Byte archives, now including the entire run of the magazine.
While some of these magazines are available on Archive.org or as torrents, we've added quite a bunch of issues that had never been scanned before, and all issues have been lovingly restored by Steve M. to look as good as is possible from a magazine scan.
Archives of old technical magazines and journals. Mirrors of particularly important retrotech archives.
Mirror friendly as long as you use anonymous rsync. Please note that their archive is rapidly approaching 1TB in size, so you may wish to think carefully about what you want and why.
An archive of older Android firmware images that give you root access on your Samsung mobile.
A site where you can search on Samsung devices and build custom Android firmware that gives you root access if it's in there.
Welcome to the best resource for iconic Star Trek sounds! If you have sound files you would like us to add, please submit them (in mp3 format if possible). Please note that we do not create sounds or accept requests, we only host what is submitted to us.
This person uploads lots of locksport and lockpicking stuff.
An archive of high-res images of classic BBC television and movie sets from just about every genre (including science fiction and Doctor Who).
Experimental website to browse and search vintage computer files from archive.org. Thousands of new files are added daily!