PickVidsBest Demoscene & retrocomputing Videos
The 136 Demoscene & retrocomputing videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 6 introductory, 30 intermediate, 98 for a general viewer, and 2 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are a demo. What they share is that you see the result first and only then decide whether to follow the detail. Channels you will keep seeing include RetroDemoScene, The 8-Bit Guy, LGR.
Bytebeat: Experimental music from very short C programs
Viznut demonstrates bytebeat, experimental music generated by extremely short C programs.
"An approach to computing and sustainability inspired from permaculture" by Devine Lu Linvega
Devine Lu Linvega of Hundred Rabbits talks about low-power, offline computing, esoteric languages and the Uxn virtual machine, informed by years of sailing the Pacific.
My old BBC Micro system
Mike of mikeselectricstuff shows his heavily modified old BBC Micro system in a 28-minute tour of 8-bit hardware archaeology.
Farbrausch - fr-041: debris. [HD]
Debris by Farbrausch, the winner of the Breakpoint 2007 demo competition.
The REAL Story On Why Space Cadet Pinball Was Removed (ft. Windows on Itanium)
NCommander investigates why Space Cadet Pinball disappeared from Windows Vista, building on Raymond Chen's explanation about 64-bit incompatibility.
PRACTICE 2018: Joseph White
Joseph White, creator of PICO-8, retraces the design of the fantasy console and how tools can shape and guide creative work.
The Commodordion
Linus Akesson demonstrates the Commodordion, a fully functional 8-bit accordion built around Commodore 64 hardware with bellows made of floppy disks.
ZX Spectrum 1-bit music: Agent X (Tim Follin, 1985)
A recording from real hardware of Tim Follin's multichannel 1-bit music for Agent X on the ZX Spectrum.
Chaos Theory - Awesome 64k Intro! [720p HD]
Chaos Theory is a 64k demoscene intro by Conspiracy and CNS that took second place at Assembly 2006, generating its graphics and music from a tiny executable.
25c3: The Ultimate Commodore 64 Talk
Michael Steil's 25C3 talk covers the Commodore 64's architecture, quirks and demoscene tricks in about an hour.
27c3: Reverse Engineering the MOS 6502 CPU (en)
Michael Steil's 27c3 talk on reverse engineering the MOS 6502 from die shots into a transistor-level simulation, as in the Visual6502 project.
Future Crew - Second Reality (1993) [60fps]
A 60fps capture of Future Crew's 1993 MS-DOS demo Second Reality, one of the best-known pieces of the demoscene.
NVScene 2015 Session: How to Create Content with Signed Distance Functions (Johann Korndörfer)
Johann Korndorfer's NVScene 2015 talk on building content with signed distance functions.
8088 MPH by Hornet + CRTC + DESiRE
8088 MPH is a demoscene production for the original 1981 IBM PC with CGA graphics and a 4.77MHz 8088, shown with real composite output.
XAYAX - Bang! (ATARI VCS 2600 demo)
Bang!
Razor1911
Razor 1911's eponymous demo celebrating 40 years of the group, which won first place at the Revision 2026 demo competition and the public's choice award.
BSidesLV 2013 3 2 7 Sixteen Colors Archiving the Evolution of ANSI and ASCII Art Doug Moore Bren
A BSidesLV 2013 talk from the Sixteen Colors project on archiving the ANSI and ASCII art scene.
I wrote a Raytracer for DOS, 16 VGA colors
Bisqwit writes a raytracer from scratch in C++ for DOS, rendering in the 16-color VGA palette at 640x480.
How "oldschool" graphics worked Part 1 - Commodore and Nintendo
The 8-Bit Guy explains the color limitations of 1980s computers and consoles such as the NES and Commodore 64.
The Only Famous Motherboard
Cathode Ray Dude's hour-long retrospective on the ABIT BP6, the dual-Celeron motherboard.
The rigs we've created for chipsynth MD's emulation.
A Plogue developer shows the custom electronic test rigs built to measure the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis sound chip (YM2612) for the chipsynth MD emulation.
Emulating the DX7 the HARD way
An episode of Plogue's chipresearch series on emulating the Yamaha DX7 from the hardware up.
Farbrausch & Neuro - Masagin (HD Stereo)
Masagin is a realtime demoscene production by Farbrausch and Neuro with music by paniq, using animated recursive SVG graphics made in Inkscape.
Hartverdrahtet - Akronyme Analogiker | 4k Revision 2012
Hartverdrahtet by Akronyme Analogiker, the winning PC 4k intro at Revision 2012.