# Retro Erik: Latest YouTube Videos & Shorts

Markdown version of https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@retroerik/videos/ from vidIQ YouTube Stats. Link to that page, not to this file.

As of 2026-11-02, Retro Erik has 52,200 subscribers, 897,508 total views, and 270 videos. It ranks #1,167,329 by subscribers among channels tracked by vidIQ.

The most recent uploads from [Retro Erik](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@retroerik/). Each video links to its own stats page. The page lists the rest of the channel's videos to signed-in vidIQ users.

## About this sample

- The latest upload vidIQ has for Retro Erik is “PicoMEM 2 CD-ROM Emulation \| October 2026 Firmware”, a long-form video published Oct 18, 2026.
- These are Retro Erik’s 48 most recent public uploads vidIQ has data for, published between Nov 20, 2025 and Oct 18, 2026 (23 long-form videos and 25 Shorts).
- Median views across these 48 uploads: 2,097. 24 videos are above that median and 24 below.
- Most viewed in the sample: “512 Colors on a PC from 1987.- Check out full video on YouTube” (70,306 views, Apr 8, 2026). Least viewed: “PalSwap TSR - Popcorn” (282 views, Apr 10, 2026).
- Median length: 9:00 for 23 long-form videos; 0:25 for 25 Shorts.
- In this sample, Retro Erik’s consecutive uploads were a median of 2 days apart (shortest gap 0 days, longest 81 days).
- Views are lifetime totals as of Nov 3, 2026, so newer uploads have had less time to collect them. These figures describe only the videos listed here, not the whole channel, and do not show why any video performed as it did. Dates are UTC.

## Recent uploads

| Video | Published (UTC) | Format | Views | Duration | Outlier score |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [PicoMEM 2 CD-ROM Emulation \| October 2026 Firmware](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@retroerik/videos/GoovQYi4Xm0/) | 2026-10-18 | Long-form | 1,064 | 14:57 | - |
| [The One ISA Card to Rule Them All Returns: PicoMEM 2 a short introduction](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@retroerik/videos/zyye6Xmiifc/) | 2026-09-03 | Short | 1,575 | 1:38 | 3.22x |
| [What If IBM Had Won the Console War?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@retroerik/videos/d4OjN-5KqdY/) | 2026-08-27 | Short | 1,986 | 1:37 | 2.52x |
| [Picovox: The Ultimate Printer‑Port Sound Card (Covox, OPL, Tandy, CMS & More)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@retroerik/videos/RXeCC0Em0JA/) | 2026-08-25 | Short | 437 | 0:55 | - |
| [This Tiny MIDI Box Made My DOS Games Sound New Again. #cm32l #retrogaming #doom](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@retroerik/videos/h9TWFwuaTUY/) | 2026-08-21 | Short | 3,162 | 0:57 | 4.69x |
| [Picovox: The Ultimate Printer‑Port Sound Card (Covox, OPL, Tandy, CMS & More)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@retroerik/videos/p4jTwdeZi98/) | 2026-08-12 | Short | 772 | 0:55 | 1.22x |
| [Picovox: The Ultimate Printer‑Port Sound Card (Covox, OPL, Tandy, CMS & More)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@retroerik/videos/DntUm2Rt9Ts/) | 2026-08-07 | Long-form | 7,448 | 12:03 | - |
| [SoundCanvas on a stick: Microsoft GS vs X2GS - The Difference Is Huge](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@retroerik/videos/Fd6PklOAN1g/) | 2026-08-05 | Short | 625 | 1:00 | 1.51x |
| [1:1: The Best Excuse to Replay Old DOS Games? Serdashops TM-32 MIDI synth. (Square version)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@retroerik/videos/oXnHSGwheM4/) | 2026-08-04 | Long-form | 811 | 8:21 | - |
| [The One ISA Card to Rule Them All Returns: PicoMEM 2 Setup Guide](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@retroerik/videos/bPsdKUwWdUU/) | 2026-08-04 | Long-form | 19,471 | 35:33 | 2.28x |
| [SoundCanvas on a stick: Microsoft GS vs X2GS - The Difference Is Huge](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@retroerik/videos/hfBHDQc9Bho/) | 2026-08-01 | Long-form | 15,134 | 40:02 | 4.15x |
| [This Macintosh Runs on a $4 Microcontroller](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@retroerik/videos/DBXCKXRd2Is/) | 2026-07-28 | Short | 1,140 | 0:43 | 2.91x |
| [This Macintosh Runs on a $4 Microcontroller](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@retroerik/videos/G_65GwnkD-A/) | 2026-07-26 | Long-form | 12,932 | 4:17 | 4.6x |
| [This Tiny MIDI Box Made My DOS Games Sound New Again. #cm32l #retrogaming #doom](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@retroerik/videos/U7ktvc4S_5U/) | 2026-07-22 | Short | 537 | 0:53 | 1.28x |
| [9:16: This Tiny MIDI Box Made My DOS Games Sound New Again. (Vertical version)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@retroerik/videos/L_xpyQJeTXY/) | 2026-07-20 | Long-form | 13,708 | 8:21 | 4.88x |
| [This Tiny MIDI Box Made My DOS Games Sound New Again](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@retroerik/videos/ggZbOlwRzA0/) | 2026-07-18 | Long-form | 16,627 | 8:21 | 5.89x |
| [PicoMEM CMS recordings - Silpheed](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@retroerik/videos/U2Ai3lg1ftY/) | 2026-04-28 | Short | 15,596 | 0:17 | 11x |
| [Unlocking 16 colors on a machine that was never meant to show them.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@retroerik/videos/lRqhT1qlRF4/) | 2026-04-24 | Short | 593 | 0:40 | 1.26x |
| [Unlocking Secret NTSC Colors on the Olivetti PC1 (CGA Artifact Mode)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@retroerik/videos/P_G7ylAQ_dg/) | 2026-04-24 | Long-form | 3,130 | 15:56 | 1.56x |
| [PicoMEM CMS recordings - Larry 1](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@retroerik/videos/HML1ENayZ_s/) | 2026-04-21 | Short | 2,518 | 0:19 | - |
| [Sierra AGI & SCI0 in 16 Colors on an Olivetti PC1 — Hidden Mode Unlocked](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@retroerik/videos/aQYgbVWuqRI/) | 2026-04-17 | Long-form | 743 | 18:08 | - |
| [PalSwap TSR - Zaxxon](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@retroerik/videos/UubVa2a1k5s/) | 2026-04-15 | Short | 2,199 | 0:15 | - |
| [CGA & VGA Color Hacks on Real Hardware — CGASwap 1.0 + PalSwapT 3.5 - ENG Voiceover](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@retroerik/videos/F5vWv3njth8/) | 2026-04-15 | Long-form | 4,097 | 8:07 | - |
| [PicoMEM CMS recordings - Qix](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@retroerik/videos/xfuLckE1VpU/) | 2026-04-14 | Short | 537 | 0:10 | - |
| [CGA & VGA Color Hacks on Real Hardware — CGASwap 1.0 + PalSwapT 3.5](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@retroerik/videos/su9mawA1brc/) | 2026-04-13 | Long-form | 737 | 11:04 | - |
| [CGA palette swapping and raster bars on a PC from 1987. - PC1 Update 2](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@retroerik/videos/Go74UOUnwTw/) | 2026-04-11 | Short | 432 | 0:14 | - |
| [A remastered Styx for the Olivetti PC1](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@retroerik/videos/-kIubhZ9GDA/) | 2026-04-10 | Short | 9,056 | 0:18 | - |
| [PalSwap TSR - Lode runner](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@retroerik/videos/yeKxb8V3n4o/) | 2026-04-10 | Short | 1,558 | 0:23 | 3.21x |
| [PalSwap TSR - IK](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@retroerik/videos/kt51W8PbwMU/) | 2026-04-10 | Short | 339 | 0:17 | - |
| [PalSwap TSR - Summer games](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@retroerik/videos/I8_XeVUvQgs/) | 2026-04-10 | Short | 1,274 | 0:30 | 2.7x |
| [PalSwap TSR - Popcorn](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@retroerik/videos/OxjdN8HosVk/) | 2026-04-10 | Short | 282 | 0:25 | - |
| [PalSwapT v 3.3 - CGA Reimagined: Swap to C64, ZX Spectrum & Amstrad Colors in DOS Games](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@retroerik/videos/c2lrBGcd43Q/) | 2026-04-10 | Long-form | 2,484 | 8:07 | 4.04x |
| [512 Colors on a PC from 1987.- Check out full video on YouTube](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@retroerik/videos/tYYZcu_OxiE/) | 2026-04-08 | Short | 3,377 | 0:29 | 1.18x |
| [512 Colors on a PC from 1987.- Check out full video on YouTube](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@retroerik/videos/Hmo7NBEZ8vY/) | 2026-04-08 | Short | 70,306 | 0:21 | 74.93x |
| [512 Colors on a PC from 1987.- Check out full video on YouTube](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@retroerik/videos/IeDs3zG-FeQ/) | 2026-04-08 | Short | 315 | 0:23 | - |
| [512 Colors on a PC from 1987.- Check out full video on YouTube](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@retroerik/videos/_R3SBrqZOjs/) | 2026-04-08 | Short | 4,602 | 0:32 | - |
| [PicoMEM CMS recordings Indiana Jones](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@retroerik/videos/I_vTambRwG4/) | 2026-04-07 | Short | 1,995 | 0:09 | - |
| [PicoMEM CMS on PicoMEM - Monkey Island](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@retroerik/videos/zhB0pKo4ZVo/) | 2026-04-05 | Short | 833 | 0:23 | - |
| [PalSwap: CGA Games With Any Colors You Want — PalSwap for Real DOS Hardware](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@retroerik/videos/M94z11cK5FQ/) | 2026-04-01 | Long-form | 666 | 9:00 | - |
| [STYX on the Olivetti PC1 — 16 Colors, Raster Bars, and a Secret Video Mode](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@retroerik/videos/Z3v6KYRCbh4/) | 2026-03-27 | Long-form | 593 | 7:57 | - |
| [CGA Magic on the Olivetti PC1: Raster Bars + Palette Tricks on Real Hardware (PC1‑Labs Update)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@retroerik/videos/2Wez2L9ke-I/) | 2026-03-20 | Long-form | 3,492 | 12:22 | - |
| [PC1PAL: Your CGA Games Never Looked Like This — Custom RGB Palettes on the PC1!](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@retroerik/videos/uqIDscWm9C0/) | 2026-03-13 | Long-form | 3,820 | 3:42 | 3.88x |
| [Olivetti PC1 Breaks Expectations – New Graphics Tricks Unlocked (PC1‑Labs Update)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@retroerik/videos/OJOHznsd0Gc/) | 2026-03-04 | Long-form | 34,411 | 4:27 | 5.66x |
| [The Olivetti PC1 Has Hidden Powers — Watch These Assembly Demo Effects](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@retroerik/videos/YxFZWqKxw7U/) | 2026-02-26 | Long-form | 891 | 1:02:51 | - |
| [Game Blaster / CMS – DOS Audio Demo (PicoMEM 1.11)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@retroerik/videos/v8KbL-XZyKU/) | 2025-12-21 | Long-form | 5,241 | 16:33 | 3.67x |
| [Getting started with the ZX Spectrum Next.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@retroerik/videos/1Kyd5F1RRkQ/) | 2025-11-29 | Long-form | 4,805 | 25:21 | 3.43x |
| [Sound Blaster – DOS Game Audio Recordings (PicoMEM 1.11)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@retroerik/videos/CoCs-XxDIEI/) | 2025-11-22 | Long-form | 8,692 | 5:14 | 6.71x |
| [CMS, Covox & Adlib – DOS Audio Emulation Test (PicoMEM 1.11)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@retroerik/videos/pg1qJCq3O-I/) | 2025-11-20 | Long-form | 4,470 | 6:46 | - |

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