Created by Zoop/Bock in 1997, managed by a large team and administrated MetaFox 'til 2008, now maintained by Astrofra, this website aims to list the latest computer and console emulators.
In december 2008, according to Archive.org, Emucamp.com ceased to function. Around november 2013, seeing that it was hold in parking, I reclaimed the domain name to rebuild a humble thesaurus of emulators, with the help of a Python script that would crawl the hundreds of different emulation sources, in order to keep the content updated. Below are some bits of history found on the internet, told by the people who used to make and visit the site since its creation. |
Emulation Camp is 11 Years Old Today! | by MetaFox - 2008/03/27 |
Emulation Camp | by Clone - 2001/02/07 |
The end of Emulation Camp | StormWold - 1998/02/27 |
The end of Emulation Camp
Well it seems like another great emulation site is going to be disappearing from the scene, that's right, Zoop ( maintainer of the Emulation Camp site ) has
decided to call it quits. The reasons for his departure from the scene are set out on the Emulation Camp home page, so please take the time to read it because it is quite lengthy. If the other co-maintainers decide to continue maintaining the site then Emulation Camp
will still exist ( minus Zoop of course ) otherwise Emulation Camp will be no more. I would just like take this time to say good luck Zoop on whatever you set out to do in the
future and you and your site ( if it's not to be continued ) will be deeply missed from the emulation scene.
Emucamp intros (in 3 flavors) | by Babyloon^Revelation - circa 1998 |
SMS Power! | sonicretro.org |
SMS Power! is a fan website dedicated to the games, hardware and various media of the Sega Master System (SMS) / Sega Mark III (MK3), Sega Game Gear (GG), Sega Game 1000 (SG-1000), Sega Computer 3000 (SC-3000), Sega Super Control Station (SF-7000) and the Othello Multivision (OMV), all Zilog Z80 Sega 8-bit era systems. The site was founded at the end of March 1997, first under the name "SMS Camp". It later evolved into a generic emulation site called "Emulation Camp" then split, went back into focus and was renamed to "SMS Power!" in 1999.
SMS Power! aims to archive the software data for all Sega 8-bit era systems, analyze and sort the software and release it to the public. For this reason, the site is perhaps best known for its collection of rare and hard-to-find ROM dumps. In addition to dumping, which is becoming an easier process nowadays, lots of work is put into verifying and labeling new and existing data, and comparing variations that may exist between different countries or rereleases. This is a tedious job, often requiring deep knowledge of the games and analysis based on the original box, game media, documentation, or reverse engineering program code.
Additionally, the site hosts an active forum, fansites for Alex Kidd, Golvellius, and Wonder Boy, as well as the official website for MEKA.