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8088 MPH by Hornet + CRTC + DESiRE

8088 MPH is a demoscene production for the original 1981 IBM PC with CGA graphics and a 4.77MHz 8088, shown with real composite output. It competed at Revision 2015 and pushes the hardware well past what it was thought capable of, breaking emulators.

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Why HN readers recommended it

HN points to it as the standard example of what cycle-exact, hardware-level programming can achieve on ancient machines, from the colors it produces to its PC speaker audio.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel
Jim Leonard
Topic
demoscene
Format
demo
Level
general
HN recommenders in dataset
3
HN mentions in dataset
9
Recommendation years in dataset
2017–2024

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

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  • The most amazing thing I've heard done with a PC speaker is in the last part of this equally amazing demo (starts at 6:37 --- the parts before have more "normal" beeper music): [VIDEO] Explanation here: [LINK]

    userbinator on Hacker News · 2019-02
    In PC Speaker To Eleven

  • Good summary. A bit more generally, demos are often written to run under constrained conditions. They are also often written for competitions that set those conditions. Sometimes, like in this case, the constraints are entirely dictated by the hardware, and the objective is just to …

    anyfoo on Hacker News · 2018-09
    In Good Apple (Bad Apple Remix) on the Soviet BK-0010/11M

  • Love how people are still pushing old hardware. These are also two excellent demo's on the XT: Area 5150 [LINK] 8088 MPH [VIDEO]

    bazza97 on Hacker News · 2024-01
    In Video playback on low-end MS-DOS machines

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