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Exploring Sid Meier's Pirates! - BASIC Code, Quirks, Bugs on Commodore 64
8-Bit Show And Tell · 0 HN recommenders · 0 recommendation months
Recommended by 0 Hacker News commenters across 0 months (2022–2026).
SignalTube analysis
Among 7 other explainer videos tagged Demoscene & retrocomputing, the mean is 2.9 distinct HN recommenders. This video has 0 distinct HN recommenders, below that mean. Recommendations span 0 distinct months; the peer average is 2.7 months. This is a data-derived comparison, not a human review or quality rating.
0% of its 3 labeled comments are marked as recommendations or strong recommendations. HN mention years are 2022–2026; those years describe discussion history, not upload date. Its verified runtime is 46 minutes 1 seconds. YouTube lists its publication date as 2021-06-28.
- Channel / speaker
- 8-Bit Show And Tell
- Verified runtime
- 46m 1s
- YouTube upload date
- 2021-06-28
- Hacker News mention years
- 2022–2026
SAME TOPIC AND FORMAT
Compare with related videos
The comparison cohort uses other explainer videos in Demoscene & retrocomputing. “Shared recommenders” counts HN users who recommended both videos in the source graph.
| Video | HN recommenders | Recommendation months | Positive label share | Shared recommenders | Runtime | Upload date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Exploring Sid Meier's Pirates! - BASIC Code, Quirks, Bugs on Commodore 64Current video | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | 46m 1s | 2021-06-28 |
| CGA Graphics - Not as bad as you thought!explainer · The 8-Bit Guy | 6 | 6 | 60% | No recorded overlap | 11m 27s | 2016-03-26 |
| How "oldschool" graphics worked Part 1 - Commodore and Nintendoexplainer · The 8-Bit Guy | 4 | 3 | 80% | No recorded overlap | 7m 8s | 2015-08-17 |
| Emulating the DX7 the HARD wayexplainer · plgDavid | 3 | 3 | 100% | No recorded overlap | 18m 41s | 2021-09-22 |
THREE SOURCE-BASED CONTEXT POINTS
Why Hacker News recommends it
Each note combines the dataset’s stance label and short rationale; comment bodies are not reproduced. Open the HN source for the original discussion.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “The Lost Treasure of Sid Meier's Pirates”. Its short rationale: Source for Pirates! being written mostly in C64 BASIC.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “Sid Meier's Pirates – In-depth (2017)”. Its short rationale: Walks through the BASIC listing of Pirates!
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “Play MSDOS Oregon Trail 1990 on archive.org”. Its short rationale: Pirates! is a popular C64 game partly written in BASIC.