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Demoscene & retrocomputing Videos Recommended on Hacker News (136)

Demoscene & retrocomputing is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 136 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2009 and 2026 — 293 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.

Retro computing: demoscene, Commodore 64, Amiga, 8-bit machines, assembly programming, tracker music, vintage hardware tricks, old PC demos, emulation.

Why HN keeps sending people here — on elevated by Rgba & TBC | 4k intro (FullHD 1080p demoscene demo): “It demonstrated that 4k was more than sufficient for impressive effects and music” — an HN commenter, 2020.

Demoscene & retrocomputing Videos Recommended on Hacker News (136)

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elevated by Rgba & TBC | 4k intro (FullHD 1080p demoscene demo)

The Ultimate Game Boy Talk (33c3)

A Mind Is Born (256 bytes)

CppCon 2016: Jason Turner “Rich Code for Tiny Computers: A Simple Commodore 64 Game in C++17”

Compiling C to printable x86, to make an executable research paper

Trackers: The Sound of 16-Bit

I painted a Landscape with Mathematics

Elevated by RGBA and TBC

Apollo Guidance Computer Part 1: Restoring the computer that put man on the Moon

How we fit an NES game into 40 Kilobytes

Moleman 2 - Demoscene - The Art of the Algorithms (2012)

CGA Graphics - Not as bad as you thought!

Amiga Hardware Programming 1 - Use the Assembler and wait for left click

Using a 1930 Teletype as a Linux Terminal

The Black Lotus - Eon - Amiga Demo (50 FPS)

I made a NES emulator in 15 minutes

Doomed: The Embers of Amiga FPS

fr-08: .the .product by farbrausch | 64k intro (2000) (720p HQ demoscene demo)

How Prince of Persia Defeated Apple II's Memory Limitations | War Stories | Ars Technica

Intrinsic Gravity by Still

.kkrieger - The FPS Game in 96KB (Full Gameplay)

The Making of: ROM City Rampage (Retro City Rampage)

"Memories" - 256 byte MSDOS intro

TiTAN - Overdrive 2 (RGB 50fps) - SEGA Mega Drive - Revision 2017 (1st Place)

Bytebeat: Experimental music from very short C programs

"An approach to computing and sustainability inspired from permaculture" by Devine Lu Linvega

My old BBC Micro system

Farbrausch - fr-041: debris. [HD]

The REAL Story On Why Space Cadet Pinball Was Removed (ft. Windows on Itanium)

PRACTICE 2018: Joseph White

The Commodordion

ZX Spectrum 1-bit music: Agent X (Tim Follin, 1985)

Chaos Theory - Awesome 64k Intro! [720p HD]

25c3: The Ultimate Commodore 64 Talk

27c3: Reverse Engineering the MOS 6502 CPU (en)

Future Crew - Second Reality (1993) [60fps]