SuperPaint, 1986. The first Mac program to combine MacPaint style bitmaps and MacDraw style vector shapes.

FastTracker 2, 1994. Made by two demoscene coders who later went on to found Starbreeze Studios.

Macintosh System 6, 1991. The last mainstream release before System 7, running here from a pair of floppies.

AMOS The Creator, 1990. One of the best selling non-game packages on the Amiga, from the designer of STOS on the Atari ST.

QBasic, 1991. Shipped with MS-DOS 5 next to the Nibbles and Gorillas games, source code included.

The Electronic Whole Earth Catalog, 1989. Nine thousand hyperlinked HyperCard cards on a CD, the web before the web.

Microsoft Excel 1.0, 1985. It debuted on the Mac, and the Windows version only followed in 1987, numbered 2.0.

Aegis Sonix, 1987. An early Amiga software synth, built on Musicraft, which Aegis bought from Commodore.

GW-BASIC, 1988. Microsoft open sourced its original 1983 code in 2020.

Macromedia Flash 2, 1997. Born as FutureSplash Animator before Macromedia bought its makers.

Directory Opus, 1992. The Amiga's legendary file manager, written by Australian Jonathan Potter and open sourced in 2000.

Timewave Zero, 1989. Peter Meyer's fractal time software, built on Terence McKenna's theory and counting down to December 21, 2012.