PickVidsBest Demoscene & retrocomputing Videos
「Demoscene & retrocomputing」下面有136部被不同的人、在不同月份推荐过的视频。挑的时候先看对象：入门6部，适合还没学过的人；进阶30部，适合已经懂术语的人；普通向98部，按兴趣就能看；更硬的2部，留给想看推导或细节的人。这一类数量最多的是演示，所以它们的共同点是先看到做成了什么，再决定要不要追细节。常出现的频道包括RetroDemoScene、The 8-Bit Guy、LGR。目录给这个主题划的范围是：Retro computing: demoscene, Commodore 64, Amiga, 8-bit machines, assembly programming, tracker music, vintage hardware tricks, old PC demos, emulation.如果只看三部，就从《elevated by Rgba & TBC | 4k intro (FullHD 1080p demoscene demo)》开始，它负责把问题讲出画面；然后看《The Ultimate Game Boy Talk (33c3)》，换一种讲法或例子；最后看《A Mind Is Born (256 bytes)》，留给已经有基础的人。页面按每页24部切开，顺序看的是被推荐跨越了多少个月，不是播放量。每条标题下面那一句是这部片子自己的内容说明，用来区分它在讲定义、过程、演示还是观点。点进去能看到推荐原话、原文链接和适合谁看。看的时候把强烈推荐当成有人明确叫你去看，把引用当成只是拿来举例，把批评留下来对照，不要把每条评论都当成同一力度。
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.