The Oldskool PC Q&A #1: Preservation, demoscene, assembler

The Oldskool PC answers your questions! If you'd like a question answered for the next Q&A video, leave it in the comments below; if I can answer it, I'll get to it in the next video.
Timestamps:

00:00 Introduction
01:14 Favorite DOS and booter games
05:44 Mindblowing programming moment
06:56 Most challenging and rewarding personal cracks
11:16 Copy protection and software preservation
13:22 Composing for PC speaker
14:15 Best demos for 386/20
18:50 Why does Quake for DOS run too fast
21:03 Favorite 8086 instruction and why
22:45 How to start coding 32-bit assembler
25:32 Top demos for IBM AT
28:15 How to measure CPU clock speed on older PCs
31:17 Can software run on the IBM PC without DRAM refresh?

Links mentioned in the video:

Shiru's article on composing for the PC Speaker:
https://habr.com/ru/post/439192/

Demos mentioned in this video:

Amnesia / Renaissance: https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=2902
Crystal Dream / Triton: https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=463
Unreal / Future Crew: https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=1274
Vectdemo / Ultraforce: https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=3540
(BTW, does that music sound familar? It's most definitely inspired by GTO - Pure https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2Qhfg74Xis)
Atom / Sorcerers: https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=4066
Megademo / The Space Pigs: https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=3972

Tran's PMODE extender:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PMODE
http://www.filegate.net/pdnasm/pmode307.zip

FASM:
https://flatassembler.net/

Game Engine Black Book series:
http://fabiensanglard.net/gebbwolf3d/
http://fabiensanglard.net/gebbdoom/

More DOS demoscene suggestions:
http://www.oldskool.org/demos/explained/demo_reviews.html

Music by coda, used with permission: https://coda.s3m.us/

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