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8088 MPH by Hornet + CRTC + DESiRE

Jim Leonard · demo · Watch on YouTube

Demoscene & retrocomputing

What it is

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.

Why Hacker News recommends 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.

  • 3 people recommended it
  • 3 different months
  • 1 strong recommendations
  • first 2017, last 2024

What HN commenters said

  1. “The most amazing thing I've heard done with a PC speaker is in the last part of this equally amazing demo”

    Amazing PC speaker audio in the demo's final part.

    userbinator, 2019-02 · Strong recommendation · in “PC Speaker To Eleven”

  2. “8088MPH (by the same makers as 8088 Domination) is a very good example.”

    Exemplary demo displaying 1024 colors on an original PC.

    anyfoo, 2018-09 · Recommendation · in “Good Apple (Bad Apple Remix) on the Soviet BK-0010/11M”

  3. “These are also two excellent demo's on the XT”

    Excellent XT demo pushing old hardware.

    bazza97, 2024-01 · Recommendation · in “Video playback on low-end MS-DOS machines”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: ibm pc, cga, retrocomputing, 8088, pc speaker

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