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。
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.