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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.
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0 mo on HNSo I Bought Those Weird New AliExpress Retro PCs…
LGR
0 HN recommender · 2023–2025
0 mo on HNUpgrading From Windows 1.0 to Windows 8 On Actual Hardware
Jacob Aaronson
0 HN recommender · 2015–2020
0 mo on HNTEENS REACT TO WINDOWS 95
REACT
0 HN recommender · 2016–2020
0 mo on HNSGI IRIS 2400 (1985)
VintageCG
0 HN recommender · 2013–2023
0 mo on HNNook simple touch e-ink games
vasilievi4
0 HN recommender · 2015–2019
0 mo on HNThe IBM 1401 makes "music"
Judith Mopalia
0 HN recommender · 2015–2022
0 mo on HNAtari XL/XE - Rescue on Fractalus [Lucasfilm Games] 1985
StaxX28
0 HN recommender · 2011–2025
0 mo on HN【東方】Bad Apple!! PV【影絵】
kasidid2
0 HN recommender · 2021–2024
0 mo on HNUnreal by Future Crew
AssemblyTV
0 HN recommender · 2020–2024
0 mo on HNPizza Party: A Command Line Program for Ordering Pizza
TheKitchenSinkII
0 HN recommender · 2017–2024
0 mo on HNOHP Mega Demo 9000 - TRSI & DES!RE - @Party 2012
dEviant303
0 HN recommender · 2015–2024
0 mo on HNKIDS REACT TO OLD COMPUTERS
REACT
0 HN recommender · 2014–2022
0 mo on HNChain of Fools 2017 - Every windows version upgraded through
TheRasteri
0 HN recommender · 2017–2021
0 mo on HNLGR Oddware - Danmere Backer VHS Hard Drive Backup System
LGR
0 HN recommender · 2018–2023
0 mo on HNTI DOOM
TPMFofMFF
0 HN recommender · 2012–2016
0 mo on HNExploring Sid Meier's Pirates! - BASIC Code, Quirks, Bugs on Commodore 64
8-Bit Show And Tell
0 HN recommender · 2022–2026
0 mo on HNGeorge R. R. Martin Still Uses A DOS Word Processor | CONAN on TBS
Team Coco
0 HN recommender · 2014–2023
0 mo on HNApple II Forever
Alfred DiBlasi
0 HN recommender · 2026–2026
0 mo on HNThe World Premiere of the Amiga (1985, Andy Warhol, Debbie Harry)
Generation X Video Archive
0 HN recommender · 2024–2026
0 mo on HNWindows 11 on Pentium 4
Enderman
0 HN recommender · 2023–2023
0 mo on HNSymbolics Space Cadet keyboard review (Honeywell Hall effect 4B3E)
Chyrosran22
0 HN recommender · 2019–2023
0 mo on HNThe Floppotron: Sweet Dreams
Paweł Zadrożniak
0 HN recommender · 2019–2025
0 mo on HNLilithComdexDemo
Jos Dreesen
0 HN recommender · 2012–2025
0 mo on HNDoom The Way it Was Meant to Be Played - v1.1 Multi-monitor
Tech Tangents
0 HN recommender · 2023–2025
0 mo on HNYour sound card works perfectly
Ricardo Lindooren
0 HN recommender · 2012–2025
0 mo on HNDon't Copy That Floppy (Official Video - Digitally Remastered)
AntiSoftwarePirates
0 HN recommender · 2013–2024
0 mo on HNvache
vsnares
0 HN recommender · 2013–2021
0 mo on HNSGI Fusion - FSN 3d File System Navigator
spyratex
0 HN recommender · 2012–2020