Explore a library of disappearing and extinct sounds at Obsolete Sounds

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Do yourself a favor and search “demoscene” of your favorite old-school microcomputer. Clever programmers do way more than was ever thought possible, given the hardware’s limitations.

These machines obviously can’t just play back recorded music and video, they “perform” it from code, and it’s absurd what they can fit on a 180 kilobyte floppy disk. I fix up the old machines and run the demos myself as validation, as sometimes it’s hard to believe it’s real.

Commodore 64 - Booze Design - Edge of Disgrace - C64 Demo (50 FPS) - YouTube

Commodore 64 - Censor Design & Oxyron - Comaland 100% - C64 Demo (50 FPS) - YouTube

This demo takes up the IBM PC’s entire 20MB hard drive. Bad Apple’s lyrics always give me goosebumps! - 8088 Domination: Video capture from an IBM PC 5160 - YouTube

1,024 colors out of a CGA video card on IBM PC - 8088 MPH by Hornet + CRTC + DESiRE - YouTube

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This was nice as an artistic exercise, but being “reshaped and reimagined as a creative composition” the sound files aren’t representative of what the extinct device sounded like in the wild. I found this site, the source of many of Obsolete Sounds’ raw sounds, much more rewarding:

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