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✦✦✦ Notes ✦✦✦ There are great articles on Wikipedia for each of these, but to save space, I'll let you find those yourselves. ☛ Sinclair ZX81 The game screenshots are from: ▸ Frogger (1981) ▸ Night Gunner (1982) ▸ Black Crystal (1982) ▸ The Gauntlet (1982) Lots of info and photos: https://retro8bitcomputers.co.uk/Sinclair/ZX81 ☛ Commodore 64 The game screenshots are from: ▸ The Last Ninja (1987) ▸ The Last Ninja (1987) ▸ IK+ (1987) ▸ Pitstop 2 (1984) ▸ Wizball (1987) ▸ Zak McCracken and the Alien Mindbenders (1988) ▸ Defender of the Crown (1987) Lots of info and photos: https://retro8bitcomputers.co.uk/Commodore/Commodore64 Amazing oscilloscope videos of famous C64 music: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXhLeiiveJmNhFf5ShVwwXspGfgt-ww8c You'll find info and screenshots from tons of C64 games here: https://www.lemon64.com/ You can download a library of almost all existing C64 music here: https://hvsc.c64.org/ ☛ Amiga 500 The game screenshots are from: ▸ Barbarian (1987) ▸ Agony (1992) ▸ Shadow of the Beast II (1990) ▸ Shadow of the Beast (1989) ▸ Agony (1992) ▸ It Came from the Desert (1989) ▸ Lotus Turbo Challenge 2 (1991) ▸ Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge (1992) ▸ Another World (1991) ▸ Flashback (1992) You'll find info and screenshots from tons of Amiga games here: https://www.lemonamiga.com/ Pex "Mahoney" Tufveson, who created Noisetracker together with Anders “Kaktus” Berkeman, talks about the history of Noisetracker here: https://youtu.be/Z1SkQDhUBkQ ☛ Macintosh SE The game screenshots are from: ▸ Dark Castle (1986) ▸ Shufflepuck Café (1989) ▸ Scarab of Ra (1987) ▸ Lode Runner (1984) On the Internet Archive, you can actually emulate Mac software directly in your browser: https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_mac You can also find lots of HyperCard stacks there: https://archive.org/details/hypercardstacks The HyperCard manual: https://download.info.apple.com/Apple_Support_Area/Manuals/software/0340617AHYPERCARDI.PDF ☛ IBM PC I don't really have any reference here, but you can look up the early graphics cards such as CGA, EGA and VGA if you want more examples. There was a very wide variety of sound cards as well. ☛ Compis Some info in English: https://sites.google.com/site/compisinfo/ Some great info (in Swedish): https://www.internetmuseum.se/tidslinjen/compis-introducerar-datorn-i-skolan/ ✦✦✦ Credits ✦✦✦ Title photo by Jack Hunter on Unsplash: https://unsplash.com/@jacktthunter The Hypercard example stack was extracted from this collection: https://archive.org/details/GarysHyperCardPage The first Amiga tune you hear is from the game Gods: Into the Wonderful (1991): https://www.lemonamiga.com/games/details.php?id=1194 The second Amiga tune (when showing Noisetracker) is from Agony (1992): https://www.lemonamiga.com/games/details.php?id=40 The PC graphics & sound examples are from the YouTube video "Evolution of PC Graphics and Sound as told by The Secret of Monkey Island" by dam-soft: https://youtu.be/xo2_ksqxbiQ The ending uses the music (by Rob Hubbard) and the player sprite from the C64 game Monty on the Run (1985): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_on_the_Run
