Did you know that from 1991 to 1995, more than 200 demos were featured on national French TV in the show named "Micro Kid's"?

Here's an anthology!

peertube.fenarinarsa.com/w/24nDZWh5Er...

#demoscene

25 years ago, a simple Half-Life mod changed online gaming forever. 💣

Counter-Strike redefined team play, and tactical shooters — and it’s still shaping the scene today.

What’s your earliest CS memory? LAN party? 56k modem lag?

📂 https://www.mobygames.com/game/2726/half-life-counter-strike

Interesting assertion in this essay on postjournalism that the switch from an advertiser- to reader-funded model locked the New York Times and other traditional news outlets in ideological filter bubbles that suppress balanced views and amplify extremist ones. andrey4mir.substack.com/p/postjourna...

We preserve games because memory fades faster than media.

Every upload keeps history alive. 💾

hey y'all! my questionnaire on player experience in historical videogames is now LIVE! if you play videogames about the past, we want to hear from you! edu.nl/7w3yn

I've officially released my real-mode emulator CPU test suite for the Intel 80386.

github.com/singlestepte...

#retrocomputing #emulation

One of the advantages of cataloging your software collection is that you can plot distributions like this.

Many people are surprised when they see how early my collection skews. Well, I started collecting early, and find+archive stuff that hasn't been archived yet. And that's mostly early titles.

I think folks often forget about the tools #YouTube gives users to maximize their viewing experience. Keyboard shortcuts, speed watching tools, Watch Later... but most users don't know about them. Check out @oldskool.org's new video on how to get the most out of YT!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1yH...

A somber reminder to not spend 12 hours on a video (2 hours prep, 8 hours recording and editing, 2 hours on thumbnail) when there's no real way to market the content. < 300 views.

I used to watch/research up to 10 hours of video on YouTube every single day -- but I spent less than 10 hours doing it. I just released a video where I document all of my YouTube viewing speedhacks I've figured out over the years: youtu.be/B1yHK_nEKaM

New video in the works. 8 hours of editing (and counting) for a subject I've been wanting to make a video on for a few years now.

Protip: Learn Premiere shortcuts. It is much faster to cut/insert/overwrite/ripple/etc with the keyboard. You can go minutes at a time without having to touch the mouse.

Returning to VCF Midwest two years later on LGR!

youtu.be/FTKnv4LoAjY

And wow has it changed. It feels like an almost entirely different show! 66,000 square feet of vintage computers, retro hardware, software, and old school goodness of all kinds. Here's what the show was like (for me) in 2025!

A huge thank you to @museumjoe.bsky.social and @ronscompvids.bsky.social for having the ShadyTel crew, including myself, on Retro Repair Roundup last night! We spent 2 hrs talking telco and how the phone network comes together at a VCF. What a great time!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN19...

DOS gamers: What qualifies as an FMV game?

1️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/bVlnle/1" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">Any FMV shown at any point
2️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/bVlnle/2" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">interactive FMV choices as primary game mechanic

📊 Show results

MTV is shutting down its music channels across Europe by December 2025 as the network shifts focus to reality TV.

It's #monday ⚡🎵

Demovibes vol. 16 : The Memory of the Shadow (mixtapes from #Amiga & PC demoscene)

Demovibes is a collection of mixtapes made with the finest #demoscene #music - Mixed by Willbe💿

You know, for a place that's all about creativity and counter-culture, it's shocking how many people in the demoscene just willingly cave in and defend the use of GenAI, one of the most corporate "tools" that anyone could've ever came up with.

I spent all day helping other people when I needed to help myself. Now it's late at night, and I should be in bed, but I'm so resentful I didn't get to do anything for myself that I'm staying awake out of spite. And knowing I'm going to be utterly wrecked tomorrow makes me angrier.

I need a break.

I've decoded the NEC V20's group decode PLA.

This PLA takes an 8-bit opcode (and two mode signals) as inputs and produces 14 status outputs that control operation of the CPU.

These status signals will hopefully explain some gaps in functionality that the microcode doesn't cover.

#retrocomputing

Well, visuals were amazing; no surprise, given that Disney bankrolled both ILM and Weta for the VFX.

Other than that, Tron: Ares was a near total misfire.
Casting was all wrong.
Soundtrack had bizarre emotional intent in some scenes.
Writing full of "As You Know" exposition.

What a disappointment.

So this #SHOT2025 panel has nearly wrapped up. But if you want to read more about historical issues surrounding multimedia and the preservation of born-digital collections, check out this piece on #DigiPres at @theul.bsky.social.

(Thanks for bringing this to my attention, @rhiggitt.bsky.social!)

@adobe.com's Premiere Pro 25.5 release delivered faster editing/timeline performance by rescheduling and moving most foreground ops to the background. This works well for those storing footage on flash devices.

Still editing off of spinning rust? Performance is WAY WORSE now. Ask me how I know!

VCF Midwest 20 Videos
#VCFMW20 #VCFMidwest #RetroComputing #VintageComputers #ComputerHistory #SchaumburgIL #RetroTech

theoasisbbs.com/vcf-midwest-...

Going to PGX this weekend? We just got the time on @inversephase.bsky.social's panel, "The Computer Art Underground". It will be in Panel 2 at 1pm on Saturday!

If you haven't picked up a badge yet, you can get 10% off with BLOOP2025 at pittsburghgamingexpo.com/buy-badges

#pittsburgh #PGH #PGX2025

One of the very best write-ups of any demoscene effect I've ever read: cobbpg.github.io/articles/nuf...

Bit-banged multiplexing taken to its extreme.