The following links are more related with my personal interests than with my research activity. They are provided in no particular order.

• Dictionaries
• Emulators
• Nostalgic Emulators
• Free CD/DVD Burning Software for Windows

Dictionaries

• Acronyms and Abbreviations, a resource where you can find the extended meaning of even rarely used abbreviations. It has never failed on any query I have performed. Always been wondering what "HPPT" means? Here is where you can find it out.
• Garzanti Linguistica, a very good italian, italian-to-english, and english-to-italian online dictionary. Requires free registration.
• Merriam-Webster Online, an online english dictionary with thesaurus and a lot of other nice features.

Emulators

• Netkit, a lightweight emulator targeted at closely reproducing the behavior of network services and protocols. Comes with a set of self runnable virtual network experiences that allow to immediately experiment with specific case studies.
  I am actively involved in the development of this product.
• VirtualBox, an excellent x86 machine emulator capable of providing nearly native performance with a wide range of guest operating systems. Available for both Linux and Windows and free for personal use. Most of the code is open source.
• QEMU, a very fast and feature rich open source machine emulator that can also act as a virtualizer.
  • QEMU project page
  • CVS repository
  • QEMU Windows port
  • QEMU Mac OS X port (Q)
• Bochs, an open source project to emulate IA-32 architectures. The same project also provides PC and VGA BIOS images that can be used in other emulation products.

Nostalgic Emulators

• UAE, a surprisingly accurate and feature wealthy emulator of Commodore Amiga computers based on Motorola 680x0 CPUs. A must for those nostalgic fellows who, like me, used to practice on an Amiga 500 in the early 90s. The Windows port is undoubtfully the most accurate (even the sound of the floppy drive is emulated!)
  • WinUAE, the most accurate, feature rich, and efficient port
  • E-UAE, the *nix port of WinUAE
  • UAE, the original Ubiquitous Amiga Emulator
  • Nicola Ferrarese's instructions for building a simple electronic circuit that makes it possible to connect old, switch based, Amiga/C64/Spectrum/etc. joysticks to the game port of a modern PC. Italian only.
• DOSBox, a rather fast and feature rich environment bringing an old fashioned DOS environment into a modern OS. Graphics, sound, mouse, joystick, CDROM, and whatever else is emulated to provide excellent compatibility with old software titles that abhor fake command prompts and want hard to run in a real DOS shell. No DOS diskette required: the emulation works out of the box.

Free CD/DVD Burning Software for Windows

• ImgBurn, a feature reach burning software with plenty of options to play with or well placed default settings to burn on the fly. Nearly everything that could be needed for burning any CD/DVD is supported in this software. Unfortunately, the creation of multisession discs is not.
• JetBee, a nice piece of software with a balanced number of features including support for multisession and UDF discs.
• CDBurnerXP, an interesting software with a rather easy to use interface. Pity that it does not support the UDF filesystem (hence, it is impossible to produce standard Video DVDs).
• InfraRecorder, another interesting software with a usable interface. However, consider that I had bad luck in making it recognize my DVD burner and, again, UDF support may not be there yet.