Retro forums

Forum of the Atari Bit Byter User Club e.V. (ABBUC), the German club dedicated to Atari 8-bit computers. The public area can be read without membership, and non-members can also register and post. The boards cover software, hardware, marketplace, and meetups and exhibitions; there are also sections on the Atari ST/Falcon/TT and the Atari consoles. A further section remains reserved for members.

Amiga Future is a bilingual (German/English) printed Amiga magazine (published by APC&TCP, issue 181 came out in July 2026) that also runs an active news portal and forum. Issues and subscriptions are sold via the associated shop amigashop.org.

Reiners Arcade History Forum - German-language community for arcade machines: restoration, repair, CRT technology, MAME/emulation, control panels and arcade history.

German-language forum for arcade machines, pinball and retro gaming (Arcadezentrum/Retrogamers). Topics include cabinet building, candy cabs, artwork, MAME/emulation, and buying/selling.

German-language forum for Atari systems (ST/TT/Falcon, 8-bit, Lynx/Jaguar, Portfolio and others), run by the Verein zum Erhalt klassischer Computer e.V. (VzEkC), with dedicated hardware sections (accelerators, mass storage solutions such as CosmosEx/UltraSatan).

Large German-language community for video games, retro consoles and home computers, focused on hardware modding, repair, arcade machines and FPGA retro hardware (MiSTer, RetroTINK).

Forum of the Verein zum Erhalt klassischer Computer e.V. (VzEkC) - one of the largest German-language communities dedicated to classic computer systems such as the C64, Amiga, Atari, Apple II and workstations, including repair, programming and emulation.

The largest German-language community forum for the Commodore 64 - active since 2002 with discussions on the C64, C128, VC-20 and other home computer systems such as Amiga and Atari. Over 7,500 members have created more than 96,000 topics; the active C64 scene also organises meetups and retro events here.

German-language Amiga community focused on hardware, software, emulation and programming - the unofficial successor to the "German Amiga (Emulation) Board".

Large German-language video game community focused on current consoles (PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo), which also runs its own retro sub-forum for classic games and systems.

One of the oldest German-language video game communities (since 1997), grown out of the readership of the magazine MAN!AC/M! Games, now run independently. Multi-platform discussion forum spanning current titles to retro.

German-language gaming forum with broad system coverage from classic consoles to PC/Mac, including dedicated retro sections for SEGA, Arcade/SNK and exotic systems such as the 3DO and CD-i.