Immensely useful and very interesting! Especially about SAM. I've heard that developers of "Alien: Isolation" used real VHS to capture certain visual and sound elements in full authenticity. And it worked superbly! Interesting to see other uses of "old tech" for authentic effects! For me, a lover of graphic's aesthetics from 90's and 2000's, it is inspiring. I guess I'll have to boot up Windows XP in order to make my own game as close to my vision as possible xD
Thank you for the post! Wish you best of motivation in your project!
I recently was aware that you can access SAM on modern-day computers! Its incredibly accurate to the c64's SAM: https://imrane03.github.io/better-sam/