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.
Can you fit a whole game into a QR code?
MattKC fits a playable Snake game into a QR code by writing tiny x86 machine code and patching the ZBar scanner so it can run the decoded data.
Second Reality by Future Crew (pc demo)
A capture of Second Reality, the real-time audiovisual demo by Future Crew first shown at Assembly 1993, recorded from a 486DX2-66 with a Gravis Ultrasound.
DEF CON 18 - Jason Scott - You're Stealing It Wrong! 30 Years of Inter-Pirate Battles
Jason Scott's DEF CON 18 talk tells the history of software piracy over thirty years, centered on the feuds and drama among rival warez groups.
Mars DOS demo by Tim Clarke (1993)
A one-minute capture of Tim Clarke's 1993 'Mars' DOS demo, a roughly 5 KB program that renders a navigable terrain landscape in real time.
Apollo Core Rope Memory (Apollo Guidance Computer Part 30)
CuriousMarc's Apollo Guidance Computer restoration series looks at core rope memory, the ROM that held the Moon landing programs.
Elite: "The game that couldn't be written"
An hour-long video essay on Elite, the 1984 BBC Micro game by David Braben and Ian Bell.
Why Are Emulators Legal? Dolphin vs. Nintendo, and the Fate of Emulation [Great Emu War Pt. 1]
Moon Channel, run by a lawyer, explains the legal basis for emulation, including the history of emulation case law and Nintendo's takedown of Dolphin's Steam release.
Excel 97 Easter Egg - Flight Simulation
A short screen recording of the flight simulator Easter egg hidden in Excel 97, with the steps to trigger it.
The Story of Another World on the Amiga | MVG
Modern Vintage Gamer explains how Eric Chahi built Another World on the Amiga 500, using 2D polygons, rotoscoping and clever techniques to run well on a stock 7MHz machine.
SymbOS MP3MSX Demostration
A demonstration of SymbOS, a multitasking operating system for 8-bit Z80 machines, running on a real MSX turboR with an MP3MSX card and a CF IDE interface.
Robotic Liberation by PWP (VIC-20)
Robotic Liberation by PWP is a music video demo performed entirely by an unexpanded Commodore VIC-20 and a 1541 disk drive, using only a few kilobytes of RAM and a 16 KB disk.
Vampire 2 Review - The Fastest Amiga Ever?!
Dan Wood reviews the Vampire 2 FPGA accelerator for the Amiga 600.
CygnusEd Professional in Action on an Amiga 2000
Casey Muratori captures CygnusEd Professional running on an Amiga 2000, showing how smoothly it scrolled text.
Making of Second Reality / Future Crew
Home video from 1993 showing Future Crew members at Mika Tuomi's home finishing the PC demo Second Reality shortly before release.
The IBM 1401 mainframe runs "Edith"
CuriousMarc runs the program 'Edith' on a 1959 IBM 1401 mainframe at the Computer History Museum.
Zarch (1987) Gameplay for BBC Acorn Archimedes High Quality
Gameplay footage of Zarch, the 1987 3D Defender-like game by David Braben for the Acorn Archimedes.
Commodore 64—25th Anniversary Celebration
The Computer History Museum's 25th anniversary celebration of the Commodore 64, recorded in December 2007, with a panel including Jack Tramiel and Steve Wozniak.
Onslaught - Bad Apple 64 - C64 Demo
Onslaught's Bad Apple 64 is a Commodore 64 demo that streams over 2000 frames of the Bad Apple animation from a single disk side at 12fps, with each frame packed to around 70 bytes.
How a Laser-Shot Disk Defeats Hackers & Pirates (Coding Secrets)
An episode of Coding Secrets by Jon Burton on retro copy protection, in particular physically damaging a disk with a laser so copies fail.
SGI Indigo2: An $86,000 Workstation from 1995
LGR looks at the Silicon Graphics Indigo2, a UNIX workstation that cost about $86,000 in 1995, covering its pros and cons, games it can run, and whether it is worth owning today.
Area 5150 by CRTC & Hornet (Party Version) / IBM PC+CGA Demo, Hardware Capture
Area 5150 is a demoscene production for the original 4.77MHz IBM PC with CGA graphics and PC speaker.
Rockafire Explosion Documentary
A 2008 documentary by Brett Whitcomb about the Rock-afire Explosion, the animatronic band built for ShowBiz Pizza Place restaurants.
Amiga Samplers : Budget dance music in 1990
debuglive makes a 1990-style dance track on an Amiga 500 with a Stereo Master sampler and cheap secondhand records, showing how sampling and trackers worked within tight memory limits.
Fatboy Slim - The Rockafeller Skank | Het verhaal achter het nummer
A Dutch Top 2000 a gogo segment in which Norman Cook (Fatboy Slim) explains how The Rockafeller Skank is built, in his studio.