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.
How a Character LCD works Part 1
The 8-Bit Guy explains how character LCD screens work and how to control them directly, first part of a series.
Canon Cat
A short Italian-language clip about the Canon Cat, a text-oriented personal computer from Canon designed by Jef Raskin, who started the Macintosh project.
The Computer Programme (1): It's Happening Now (Introduction to Computing)
The first episode of the BBC's 1982 television series The Computer Programme, introducing home computing to a general audience.
Kefrens - Desert Dream - Amiga Demo (HD 50fps)
Kefrens' Desert Dream, an Amiga demoscene production released at The Gathering in 1993, recaptured in HD at 50fps.
SORTDEMO.BAS
A three-minute capture of SORTDEMO.BAS, the sorting visualization that shipped with QBasic.
Spaceballs - 9 Fingers - Amiga Demo (HD 50fps)
Spaceballs' 9 Fingers, an Amiga demoscene demo released at The Party in 1993, recaptured here in 50fps HD.
C++ Weekly - Ep 19 C++14 For The Commodore 64
An episode of C++ Weekly in which Jason Turner shows modern C++14 compiling to the Commodore 64's 6502.
VCF East: Xerox Star vs. Apple Lisa
Jason Perkins's talk at Vintage Computer Festival East 2020 compares the user interface of the Xerox Star with that of the Apple Lisa.
Sonic behind waterfall - RetroArch shader comparison
A one-minute demo comparing RetroArch shaders on the Sonic the Hedgehog waterfall, where Sega Genesis dithering creates a transparency effect.
Bytebeat: Music from very short programs - the 3rd iteration
Viznut's third bytebeat video presents music generated by very short C programs and JavaScript expressions.
Amiga music: Captain - Space Debris
A 1991 Amiga tracker module, 'Space Debris' by Captain (Markus Kaarlonen), uploaded as a video of the music.
The Secret of Monkey Island (Intro) (PC Speaker theme)
The Secret of Monkey Island intro theme played through the internal PC speaker.
So I Bought Those Weird New AliExpress Retro PCs…
LGR reviews the Book 8088 and Hand 386, newly built DOS retro PCs sold on AliExpress that use real legacy chips on custom boards.
Upgrading From Windows 1.0 to Windows 8 On Actual Hardware
A 74-minute video of upgrading Windows 1.0 through every release up to Windows 8 on a real netbook rather than in a virtual machine.
TEENS REACT TO WINDOWS 95
A REACT episode where teenagers try Windows 95 for the first time and react to the retro interface and technology.
SGI IRIS 2400 (1985)
A short demo reel of the 1985 Silicon Graphics IRIS 2400 workstation animating flat-shaded polygons on a 68010 CPU.
Nook simple touch e-ink games
A brief clip of a Nook Simple Touch e-ink reader running PlayStation 1 games through an emulator with a hacked fast refresh rate.
The IBM 1401 makes "music"
A one-minute demo at the Computer History Museum's IBM 1401 restoration lab, where a program makes the machine's radio-frequency interference play tunes on an AM radio.
Atari XL/XE - Rescue on Fractalus [Lucasfilm Games] 1985
Intro and gameplay footage of Rescue on Fractalus, the 1985 Lucasfilm Games title for Atari XL/XE, programmed by Loren Carpenter and David Fox.
【東方】Bad Apple!! ＰＶ【影絵】
The original 2009 Touhou Bad Apple!!
Unreal by Future Crew
The first-place PC demo at Assembly 1992, Unreal by Future Crew, showing real-time effects such as palette-based wormholes.
Pizza Party: A Command Line Program for Ordering Pizza
A short 2007 demo of Pizza Party, a command line program that orders Domino's pizza from a UNIX-like terminal.
OHP Mega Demo 9000 - TRSI & DES!RE - @Party 2012
A real-time demoscene production made with an overhead projector, released by DESiRE and TRSi for @Party in the OHP category.
KIDS REACT TO OLD COMPUTERS
An episode of REACT in which children try to figure out 1970s-1980s computers, including an Apple II and floppy disks.