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.
Chain of Fools 2017 - Every windows version upgraded through
TheRasteri upgrades a single PC through every Windows version, from early releases through Windows 10, testing that old software keeps running.
LGR Oddware - Danmere Backer VHS Hard Drive Backup System
LGR reviews the Danmere Backer16, a 1996 backup system that stored a PC's data on ordinary VHS tapes through a VCR.
TI DOOM
A short video of someone playing Doom on a TI-83+ graphing calculator, with a link to the version used.
Exploring Sid Meier's Pirates! - BASIC Code, Quirks, Bugs on Commodore 64
8-Bit Show And Tell walks through the BASIC source code of the original Commodore 64 Sid Meier's Pirates!.
George R. R. Martin Still Uses A DOS Word Processor | CONAN on TBS
A short Conan segment in which George R.
Apple II Forever
A short clip from the April 1984 Apple IIc rollout presentation at the Moscone Center, uploaded by Alfred DiBlasi.
The World Premiere of the Amiga (1985, Andy Warhol, Debbie Harry)
Footage of the 1985 world premiere of the Amiga 1000 at Lincoln Center.
Windows 11 on Pentium 4
Enderman gets Windows 11 running on a Pentium 4 system with a Radeon HD 5870 and 8 GB of DDR2.
Symbolics Space Cadet keyboard review (Honeywell Hall effect 4B3E)
A review of the Symbolics Space Cadet keyboard, with its Honeywell Hall effect switches, including how it sounds and feels, and a typing demonstration.
The Floppotron: Sweet Dreams
The Floppotron plays a cover of Eurythmics' Sweet Dreams using an orchestra of old computer hardware such as floppy drives, hard drives and scanners, driven by microcontrollers.
LilithComdexDemo
A silent demo of the ETH Lilith Modula-2 workstation running its Comdex demo program, captured from the Emulith emulator.
Doom The Way it Was Meant to Be Played - v1.1 Multi-monitor
Tech Tangents sets up original Doom's three-screen multi-monitor mode, which required a separate networked computer for each monitor.
Your sound card works perfectly
A one-minute clip of the Warcraft II sound card test in setup, where the test sample plays and the voice says the sound card works perfectly.
Don't Copy That Floppy (Official Video - Digitally Remastered)
The 1992 SIIA anti-piracy rap video Don't Copy That Floppy, warning kids against copying software, remastered and uploaded.
vache
A short video of Venetian Snares' track 'Vache' with the Renoise tracker sequencer data scrolling past, uploaded by the artist in 2006 as a demo of the software.
SGI Fusion - FSN 3d File System Navigator
A short screen capture of SGI's File System Navigator (FSN, also called Fusion) running on IRIX 6.5 on an Octane.