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You can - Populous is available here (with the permission of the publisher), and a number of Amiga emulators are also available there. If you don't have a legal set of ROMs and Kickstart/Workbench disks, I would recommend Amiga Forever, which is not expensive and will have everything you need.

Also Exotica to a milder degree.

I learned FORTH on a KIM-1. Who else remembers the classic article (I think it was in Byte) "How to write a compiler in 50 words or less"?

You're thinking of "Forth Extensibility: Or How to Write a Compiler in Twenty-Five Words Or Less"

It was in Byte -- August, 1980 (The Forth Issue)

Archived here, with others, as a gigantic PDFs

I host my website on a mac mini, and in fact manage a few mac minis as dedicated servers. They make pretty good machines for web hosting, due to low power consumption, and the fact you can fit about 8 in 3U of rackspace/

Photo:
http://www.exotica.org.uk/wiki/File:Macmini-rack.jpg

Not running OSX mind, but Debian. More info on http://www.exotica.org.uk/wiki/ExoticA:Hosting

I host my website on a mac mini, and in fact manage a few mac minis as dedicated servers. They make pretty good machines for web hosting, due to low power consumption, and the fact you can fit about 8 in 3U of rackspace/

Photo:
http://www.exotica.org.uk/wiki/File:Macmini-rack.jpg

Not running OSX mind, but Debian. More info on http://www.exotica.org.uk/wiki/ExoticA:Hosting

I enjoy the remix groups like the one you linked, but there's simply nothing as good as the original hardware. Ahhhh nostalgia. ;-) Unfortunately I cannot provide a direct link so you'll have to do a little bit of navigation to Internet Explorer (does not work on firefox) and click here: http://www.lemon64.com/music

Then:
- Click VARIOUS
- Click M-R
- Click Merman
- Click Bohemian Rhapsody

This version of Bohemian Rhapsody is "okay" but I've heard far better music than this coming from the Commodore=64, like the stuff in the 20CC folder (top directory). I like their TV Tunes Mix and 20CC/van_Santen_Edwin/Final_Axel and 20CC/van_Santen_Edwin/Enigma_Intro. Other favorite sidtunes: Galway_Martin/Arkanoid_PSID (songs 1, 2, 3, and 4) and Galway_Martin/Wizball and Galway_Martin/Never_ending_story. The "DEMOS" directory is also worth checking out.

The 1982 SID sound chip uses just 3 voices and primitive Attack-Decay-Sustain-Release (ADSR) sound generation. No samples like in the later Amiga or Super Nintendo machines - just direct manipulation of the "instrument". It was the first home computer that sounded like music instead of a touchtone phone. In later years hackers learned to use the volume control to do voice generation such as in Impossible Mission where it says, "Ahh another visitor. Stay awhile. Staaaaay forever!" Another first for home computers.

Yep computing in the 1980s was definitely not boring.
Always somebody inventing something new and exciting.
More information can be found here:
http://www.exotica.org.uk/mediawiki/index.php?title=Special%3AHVSC&si=0&title=Special%3AHVSC&sr=0&md=qsearch&qs=arkanoid

Elvira.

The perfect girl for your average computer nerd. Not at all standoffish. She's unusual, but so down-to-earth.
Who wouldn't feel right at home with her? A little off the wall for her to be hawking some complicated computer software, I have no idea what is was supposed to do from the advertisement. Must have been something from the old days before Netscape, when computers were supposed to do "office" and "business" stuff.
To see how far we have come, the decendants of Netscape are used everyday, all day in every office and business out there. Nevermind that the new-found purpose is to look on the internet for nice-looking girls like Elvira.
To prove my point, here are a few links to Elvira images for your enjoyment:

• Here's one. Appears to be an autographed picture of Elvira, no doubt sent to some lonely nerd.
  
• This one appears to be another advertisement featuring Elvira.
  
• In this shot, an impersonator does Elvira, right down to the creepy eye-plastic-surgery, which by the way would be a good conversation starter topic for anyone lucky enough to get a date with Elvira.
  
• Here we have Elvira on/in a game. Perhaps some of you have wasted your money on this one.
  
• Supposedly this is a picture of Elvira's car, apparently a T-Bird, with some spooky changes.
  
• Out selling vacuum cleaners, and you ring this doorbell, get greeted by Elvira and friends.
   

• This one was taken in 2003, you can tell it's really Elvira, because of the little dagger on her belt, with the red and green gemstones. (Elvira has been in show business for a while now, and she is not as young as she used to be, but who cares)
  
• Here is a photo of Elvira with her pet snake. Lots of wannabe Elvira's felt they had to have a snake too, mostly a bad idea, only Elvira herself knows how to handle the little varmits.
  
• OK, here's the best for last, showing lots of Elvira's legs, and her car. As you can see, that's a real car, based on a T-Bird, and those are real legs too.
  
• Here's a screenshot of some Elvira software. I have no idea what it does, and am returning to the image above, much more interesting.
  
  
  -- Rapidweather

Lemmings first - anyone fancy playing it in your browser? Try DHTML Lemmings - try not to kill it ;-)

Thalion went a long time ago, but released all of their stuff for the public - one of my favorites was the unfinished (in english at least) Ambermoon - an epic RPG - that, and many more, available on the Thalion Webshrine - break out your amiga emulators ;-)

Finally - one of my favorite games of all time was Captive. Sadly the sequel lost some of it's fun for science (to my mind) - it's another RPG, with you controlling a group of 4 droids. The intro music was brilliant - get it here, for a screenshot and a better description read the wikipedia entry. It is notable in that it had 65536 levels - each one having a *lot* of planets to explore... If you'd like to see a tribute to it appear, go check out the FreeCap Project - they need all the help they can get :-)

Lemmings first - anyone fancy playing it in your browser? Try DHTML Lemmings - try not to kill it ;-)

Thalion went a long time ago, but released all of their stuff for the public - one of my favorites was the unfinished (in english at least) Ambermoon - an epic RPG - that, and many more, available on the Thalion Webshrine - break out your amiga emulators ;-)

Finally - one of my favorite games of all time was Captive. Sadly the sequel lost some of it's fun for science (to my mind) - it's another RPG, with you controlling a group of 4 droids. The intro music was brilliant - get it here, for a screenshot and a better description read the wikipedia entry. It is notable in that it had 65536 levels - each one having a *lot* of planets to explore... If you'd like to see a tribute to it appear, go check out the FreeCap Project - they need all the help they can get :-)