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.
Altair 8800 - Video #7.1 - Loading 4K BASIC with a Teletype
A demonstration of loading Altair 4K BASIC on an Altair 8800 clone, using a front-panel bootloader and an ASR-33 Teletype.
Racing the Beam Explained - Atari 2600 CPU vs. CRT Television
Retro Game Mechanics Explained shows how the Atari 2600 draws images with almost no video memory, by having the CPU race the CRT beam line by line.
Quick Start, Episode 7: Crimes... And Felonies.
Cathode Ray Dude covers two bizarre HP 'Quick Start' features: QuickLook, an offline email client built on EFI firmware, and Daystarter, which hijacks the Windows boot process.
Chain of Fools : Upgrading through every version of windows (HQ)
TheRasteri installs MS-DOS and Windows 1.0, then upgrades in place through nearly every Windows version up to Windows 7, checking which programs survive.
8088 MPH by Hornet + CRTC + DESiRE (final version)
The winning demo from Revision 2015's oldskool competition, running on a real 1981 IBM PC with CGA at 4.77MHz.
Big Ideas: Don't get any -- by James Houston
James Houston's entry to Radiohead's Nude remix contest, performing the 6/8, 63bpm song on obsolete hardware such as hard drives, a dot matrix printer, a scanner and a ZX Spectrum.
Amiga Story | Nostalgia Nerd
Part 1 of a documentary on the Commodore Amiga, from the Lorraine prototype and the Atari and Commodore buyouts through the Amiga 1000 launch in the 1980s.
Freespin
Freespin is a demo that runs on a Commodore 1541 floppy drive.
Amiga Boing Ball
The original Amiga Boing Ball demo, written at the Winter CES in January 1984 to show off the Amiga's hardware, with a bouncing, spinning checkered ball running while the system multitasked.
The 1988 VIDEO Floppy Disk Camera: Canon Xap Shot RC-250
LGR looks at the 1988 Canon Xap Shot, a still video camera that records photos to a floppy disk as analog NTSC signal rather than digital data.
The History of 3D Graphics on the Gameboy Advance | minimme
minimme traces the timeline of 3D graphics engines on the Game Boy Advance, from early experiments to commercial 3D games, covering techniques such as voxel rendering.
Spaceballs - State of the Art - Amiga Demo (HD 50fps)
A recapture in 50fps HD of Spaceballs' 'State of the Art', an Amiga demo released at The Party 1992.
SGI's $250,000 Graphics Supercomputer from 1993 - Silicon Graphics Onyx RealityEngine²
Dodoid gives an in-depth look at an SGI Onyx RealityEngine2, a $250,000 graphics supercomputer from 1993, covering its history, a physical overview, a teardown and some demos and games.
Color Maximite 2 - ARM CPU that runs BASIC!
The 8-Bit Guy reviews the Color Maximite 2, a modern ARM-based computer that boots straight into BASIC.
The Fastest Apple Mac is an Amiga - Fact or Fiction?
RMC tests running a classic 68k Mac environment through emulation on an accelerated Amiga and compares it to real Mac hardware.
Dark Castle (1986) - Original Macintosh Version!
Gameplay footage of the original 1986 Macintosh version of Dark Castle by Silicon Beach Software.
Polyend Tracker // Review and Full Tutorial from Sample to Song
Loopop reviews the Polyend Tracker hardware tracker-style sequencer and walks through a tutorial from sampling to finishing a song.
puls (256 bytes)
A 256-byte MS-DOS intro that renders a raymarched, procedural 3D animation.
The Black Lotus - Starstruck - Amiga Demo (AGA)
Starstruck, an AGA Amiga demo by The Black Lotus that won first place at Assembly 2006, shown in HD at 50fps.
The weeCee: A Tiny New MS-DOS & Windows Gaming PC!
LGR reviews the weeCee, a tiny mini PC that boots MS-DOS and Windows from a microSD card.
David Hasselhoff - True Survivor (from Kung Fury)
The official music video for David Hasselhoff's synthwave track True Survivor, written for the film Kung Fury.
DEC LAB-8/e (PDP-8/e) playing music
A 1971 DEC LAB-8/e (PDP-8/e) minicomputer plays music by inducing noise into a nearby AM radio.
Building my dream computer - Part 1
The 8-Bit Guy proposes building his dream retro computer, an expandable C64-like machine using sourceable parts and modern I/O, which became the Commander X16 project.
BeOS Demo Video
A vintage demo video of the BeOS operating system running on mid-90s hardware.