THE VIDEO SHELF · retro computing operating systems
SymbOS MP3MSX Demostration
A demonstration of SymbOS, a multitasking operating system for 8-bit Z80 machines, running on a real MSX turboR with an MP3MSX card and a CF IDE interface. It shows the OS playing audio and running a graphical desktop on very old hardware, captured from the real machine and not an emulator.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN points to it as a vivid showcase of how much a modern-feeling GUI OS can do on slow 8-bit hardware.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- karloch
- Topic
- retro computing operating systems
- Format
- demo
- Level
- intermediate
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2014–2018
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
Excerpts from the recorded comments. Follow each source for the full comment and surrounding discussion.
After finding about pico8, I got interested in low res, low color depth UX, this couldn't come at a better time. Beside the flickering, it's pretty neat. [VIDEO]
agumonkey on Hacker News · 2015-12
In SymbOS: preemptive multitasking OS that can play mp3s, video on 8-bit Z80 PCsLots and lots of transition animations, and potentially very poor UI/UX model. Demos are not (largely) interactive, so the demoscene is not known for collective skill designing GUIs. The most similar/related type of things I can think of that are interactive are crack/keygen programs that …
exikyut on Hacker News · 2018-10
In Looking Glass, a revolutionary window manager revealed in 2006
Summaries, classifications and recommendation records are from the HackerTube source dataset. Read about this library and its limitations.