• Booyaka.com - message boards, Animator and game saves
• VMAnimation - Includes the Animator Top 10 every week

• Alessandro Sanasi's page - Tools for converting to/from .DCI files (for Nexus memory cards)
• DOS SoftVMS Home Page - DOS Port of SoftVMS and some game development
• Isaac Rounds' page - assorted dos / windows tools, plus info for making your own VM battery pack!
• John Maushammer's site - home of the disassembler, plus lots of useful info
• Marcus Comstedt's site - home of the assembler and the emulator, plus lots more info!
• RAMTronics VMU Development - VM Dev tools for the Amiga and games in progress (and the home of the VM Development Directory, and the (unofficial) VM FAQ, of course!)
• Richard Bannister's Mac port of SoftVMS
• Soren Gust's page - with the SerialToVM system, and neat VM sound player code
• VirtuaMUnstaz - Working on a C compiler and some tutorial source
• VMU Animator Home Page - Tool for Windows that creates .LCD files

Key to what these sites offer:

News	= has VM related news stories
Cheat	= has game tips and cheats
Game	= has VM games to download
Save	= has game save files to download
Hiscore	= has hiscore tables
Review	= has reviews
Exclusive	= has games or saves that are exclusive to the site
Linked	= has links to games and saves on other sites

Sites (in no real order)	News	Cheat	Game	Save	Hiscore	Review	Exclusive	Linked
Dreamfiles.com
Sega Dreamcast VMU Centre								(some)
VMU Otaku
www.dreamcastvmu.cjb.net
VM:UK (currently offline)
Dreamside (french)

• The (unofficial) VMU FAQ

• from marcus' site:
  • VMS Firmware - how to use the VM system functions
  • Flash memory - How the filesystem on the VM works
  • VMI files - Details on how to create .VMI files for your website
  • ICONDATA_VMS - The format of the VM custom icon
  • CPU Instruction set- The instructions understood by the CPU, and the mnemonics used by the assembler
  • VM Registers - Documentation of the VM system registers
  • VMS File header - How to understand the data within a .VMS file
• from john's site:
  • CPU Documentation - a .PDF file from Sayno describing a processor very similar to the one used in the VM
  • VM Registers - Documentation of the VM system registers
  • Memory Map - Documentation of the VM's memory and ROM space.
  • Hardware protocols - The communication language of the VM
• from soren's site:
  • VM to VM - A description of the VM to VM protocol
  • Power consumption of the VM
  • Sound - An interrupt based sound engine
• from booyaka:
  • LCD file format - A Description of the format of .LCD files (used by dream animator)
  • Control file format - Description of the Control file format for booyaka's animator

• Tools currently available:
  • Aslc86k - an assembler that can create code for the VM by Marcus Comstedt
  • DCI converters - tools to convert files to/from Nexus memory card format by Alessandro Sanasi (only available for MSDos based machines)
  • Dcmtools - tools for copying files to/from a nexus card by Marcus Comstedt
  • Dream Animator - an Windows based .LCD file creator for use with booyaka's DC animator service
  • LCDis - a disassembler (turns .VMS files back into source code) by John Maushammer
  • LIME - a compiled (basic like) language for making VM software! by Roger O'Conner. Supplied as a TCL script, so works on most systems
  • SoftVMS - an emulator that lets you run VM games on your computer by Marcus Comstedt
  • VMU Animator - another .LCD creator - much better than Dream Animator! (also for Windows)
  • VMU tool - a tool to help you create .VMI files and to extract information from them by VirtuaMUnstaz
  • VMUX - a pair of programs designed to convert a .vmi/.vms pair into a .dci file for a Nexus, or a .dci file into a .vmi/.vms pair by Richard Munn. Currently in experimental stage, so only source is available at this time.
• Source Code
  • Aslc86k
  • Dcmtools - source for Solaris x86 and Amiga
  • LCDis
  • LIME
  • SoftVMS (Includes source for X Windows, MSWindows and Amiga)
  • SoftVMS (DOS version)
  • VMU tool
  • VMUX
• For Linux
  
  • Linux users can compile from the source code to create versions suitable for their setup. Aslc86k, LCDis and Vmu run as terminal applications, lime runs through the TCL interpreter, and SoftVMS runs under X Windows.
• For DOS / Windows
  • Aslc86k
  • DCI converters
  • Dream Animator (English)
  • Dream Animator (Original Japanese)
  • LCDis
  • LIME can be run (download from above), if you install TCL first (try here) more info on the LIME page.
  • SoftVMS1.7a (DOS version)
  • SoftVMS1.8 (Another DOS version) - this is a more recent version, and uses a better colourscheme too! (The emulator download link is hidden towards the bottom of the page)
  • SoftVMS1.8 (Windows9x version)
  • VMU Animator
  • VMU tool
• For Amiga
  • latest versions of the binaries (just the executables but nothing else)
  • Amiga VMU Devkit (includes Amiga versions of SoftVMS, Aslc86k, LCDis and the VMU tool, plus PPaint scripts for generating graphic code, AmigaGuide documentation and other useful support utilities. In short, it's virtually everything you'll need to develop VM stuff on an Amiga!)
  • Dcmtools
  • LIME seems to work using a somewhat huge Geek Gadgets install (see ninemoons.com) - I'll look into getting it running in a slimline form!
• For Mac
  • SoftVMS
  • SoftVMS (French version)
• For Solaris x86
  • Most tools should compile happily from the source (as per Linux)
  • Dcmtools
  • VMU tool
• Online tools
  • VMU tool - the same basic program as the one you can run directly on your own computer, but with a nice web based front end.

- Richard Munn, 28th of March 2000