If you only want to enjoy the music, there’s https://hvsc.c64.org/ https://hvsc.c64.org/ which is a project to collect and document every tune ever produced wit

If you only want to enjoy the music, there’s https://hvsc.c64.org/ https://hvsc.c64.org/ which is a project to collect and document every tune ever produced with the C64. The C64’s SID chip was way ahead of its time, capable of 8-bit 48Khz sample playing - on a machine from 1981, with 64K ram, and 1Mhz CPU[0] Some PCs gained comparable sound output capability about a decade or so later with the appearance of the original SoundBlaster; it wasn’t until 1996 or so before this became standard with PCs. [0] The hardware was always capable; the way to get it was only discovered in the last decade by Mahoney, see the examples and comments in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16696246 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16696246 ; Still, at every point in time until about 2000 or so, only Amigas produced better sounds among personal computers.