IBM's 'A Boy and His Atom' on an IBM PC XT (4.77MHz, CGA)

Here I've modified the player to use CGA's mode 5, that is 320x200 graphics with the color burst disabled, to get a B&W picture over composite. "New-style" IBM CGA cards (made 1984 or later, roughly) give you some 10 shades of grey in that mode, so the movie was converted specifically for this 'palette'.

(This is not exactly an original XT configuration, because the audio is coming from a Sound Blaster Pro 2.0, and an XTIDE adapter plus a CF card allow for the 150K/sec bitrate...)

[Optimus]

Great, even the XT PCs are alive with your projects!

[constantinosschinas]

splendid work on the shrinking/power metaphor.

[abandonedaccount]

Could the ibm pc xt play PCM samples? If the audio is not 16 bit or pcm sampled, the sound chip must be working itself to corruption. And the audio alone is really impressive.