The Final Countdown on FLOPPOTRON 3.0 

You can't even see this as a silly funny project anymore. This is now a serious music production device / instrument.

i just though of you recently and realised I haven't seen a notification in months. It's been 8 months, I hope you're doing okay, mate.

Man this never gets old. Long live Floppotron!

Does anyone know if he's alright? The long time gap has me worried about his health and safety..

SO sick. This is like, a fully functional electric organ now, practically. Also, why does it make me... weirdly emotional to see all those little floppy disk drives all working in tandem like that? I'm just so proud of them. :')

I love how the different colored disk drives are arranged to resemble piano keys.

The third version of floppotron is incredibly detailed compared to its predecessor. Can you make "Bad to the Bones"?

I'm super impressed by the accurate instrumentation, the "guitar riffs" and the "vocals" are my highlights.

Keep checking back in on the channel every now and again, hope you're still working on projects like this

Where are you? Are fine?

Listening to a song written for synthesizers being redone by a master artist of synthesized sounds just sends shivers everywhere. So wish I had extra hardware to donate to 4.0!

Ironically, I’ve never once heard any song on the Floppotron that I thought flopped. Excellent work, impressive as always.

Amazing arrangement as usual! I loved the BSOD after the countdown LoL!

HOW AM I ONLY DISCOVERING THE FLOPPOTRON NOW???? This is a masterpiece.

This really was his final countdown.

Oh my god I was already wondering when there was another awesome tune again! Edit: wow this tracks composition is just brilliant, especially the different lines overlaying each other. Outstanding job as always! Thanks a lot for your efforts to please our ears

It feels like 8-bit, but it's technically full mechanical. Love to revisit this and its revisions once in a while. Long live Floppotron!

The bridge starting shortly after 3:15 is just brilliant. Introduced by those drums into heavy synths, and afterwards a breakdown and build up to the chorus again. Floppotron captures and reproduces the epicness of it. I'd pay to hear this in a museum.

As an electronics an programing guy, i must say this is absolutely incredible feat of engineering, most people can't imagine how much work and time is invested in just a "funny" project. Hats of to your work, well done!👏👏👌

The last video...

I'd love to hear the entirety of Freebird by Lynyrd Skynyrd on the Floppotron. That guitar solo at the end would be so sick!

I'd like to hear True Survivor by David Hasselhoff (The Kung Fury song).

What an improvement for this song on Floppotron 3.0 vs the 2.0! This sounds amazing with so many layers!

this was an actual final countdown lol

This is the equivalent of the late 1800, early 1900's 'Calliope', but with late 1980's to 90's tech. There were some amazing musical machines back then, as this one is now. Absolutely amazing to listen to in how each part or bank of parts produces its elements of the song. And watching them all move in concert, producing sounds in ways never intended, brings me great joy. I used to work with all this kind of tech, both hardware and software, back in the early days of the PC Revolution and the dawn of the Internet. Seeing these old drives and printers being put to good use instead of rotting away somewhere makes me happy. Thank You!

Awesome cover, the "drums" sound so great May I suggest a cover of "holding out for a hero"

When I hear this level of quality, I really think the Halo theme would sound well with the Floppotron treatment !

Dude, this is amazing, you should add an old dot matrix printer to the mix. Those things can make the flopotron even better

What’s more impressive to me is that The Floppotron 3.0 is able to continue playing, even if it has blue screened… 😅

It took me listening back to the older versions of this song on older versions of The Floppotron to understand how far ahead this one has gotten. Only after listening to those do I fully appreciate the richness and the expressiveness of Floppotron 3.0. Bravo, my dear friend. I take my hat off.

I find the IBM pc blue screening in the middle of the song more funny than it should be.

Love it! The floppotron's sound signature is very well suited for electrical guitar sounds :D

Hahahaha, that ending! XD Also, love the blue screen/reboot sequence on the monitor, lovely touch! Musically, so accurate to the original, you're an absolute legend! Thank you for all you do!

It is amazing how those who grew up around these now-old machines can feel nostalgia from any song played on the Floppotron.

I hope this person is just preparing a huge project so that when we go to his channel we will immediately see a new video and be surprised at how big this project turned out and it looks great I hope he hasn’t abandoned his channel

The fact that the ‚notes‘ to all those brilliant Floopotron performances are stored on Floppy disk themselves just puts the cherry on the top! Congratulations!

I think that Heart of Glass by Blondie would sound great on the floppytron

We miss you!

Beneath applications and the interface Beneath software the command lines show my face But beneath that beneath my own mind lies the hardware body's not up to the task You forget that I'm a system over ten years old I can't run this these cutting-edge triple As I'm a potato Well, not literally A potato Compared to the game's required specs This, my friend, is a trial from which I will not escape! (I will end up as e-waste!!) But I'm not obsolete Merely obsolescent I'll try my best But I cannot promise anything Put the settings way low Compress the textures Defrag my drives Throw the rest on USB And for pete's sake, don't make me do too much post-processing! (I hate antialiasing!!) The game's ever-so-slowly installing We're leaving together, but still, it's farewell And maybe, we'll come back to Earth, who can tell? I guess there is no one to blame We're leaving ground (Leaving ground) Will things ever be the same again? It's the final countdown! There's a pop-up Graphics driver out of date The game's not crashing But the FPS sure is as hell (The final countdown!) At least the wi-fi modem's relatively recent The fans are roaring But they can't cool me enough we're heading for Venus And still, we stand tall 'Cause maybe they've seen us And welcome us all, yeah With so many light years to go And things to be found (To be found) I'm sure that we'll all miss her so It's the final countdown! I'm so sorry We must try again I'll run this game for you If it's the last damn thing I do (the final countdown!) I've downloaded all of the dependencies I'm all ready The rest's just up to me (the final countdown!) It's the final countdown The final countdown The final countdown (Final countdown), oh Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh [Guitar Solo] So this is how it ends Both a bang and whimper My hard drive arm Keeps slipping right off the disk Opened task manager Closed off so many things I just think that You've overestimated what I can take The final countdown, oh-oh It's the final countdown The final countdown The final countdown (Final countdown), oh It's the final countdown We're leaving together (The final countdown) We'll all miss her so It's the final countdown (Final countdown), oh

If you are still around and need ideas, I suggest doing old Commodore VIC-20 demos like Robotic Liberation. I think that demo would sound really cool with this setup!

Is this...the final video?

8 months ago, let's hope this wasn not his final count down.

It is just mindblowing and astonishing when you imagine the whole path from first steps of Floppotron to its 3.0 reborn version! This amount of sound design, all the small details, arrangements, whole music producing level ... I have no words for this. All these percussive sounds and vibrations for reverb emulation are EXTREMELY hard work for precise tuning step by step. This man is THE legend, genius, maestro !!!

When mom wanted you to become a programmer, but dad wanted you to become a musician:

Waiting for more

That blue screen of death was epic, what was even more epic is that the Floppotron kept playing! 😂

I remember a time where this song was actual magic... If you could play the opening riff on a piano you were transformed into an instant rock star, at least for a few minutes! 🤘

That solo tone is so amazing, that it's possible to emulate an overdriven guitar so perfectly - with flatbed scanners.

Pavel, gdzie zniknąłeś? Bardzo tęsknimy za Twoją fantastyczną muzyką. Mam nadzieję, że masz się dobrze. Przesyłam ci promienie życzliwości i wsparcia.

What happened to Pawel? been looking forward for updates for months, but no signs of life from him for the past 8 months. Nothing on the web, his patreon, or anywhere else

There’s something about when it really gets going that almost has a Knights of Cydonia vibe. I wonder if there is mashup potential there.

I absolutely love that you are still making new content and expanding the Floppotron's capacity as a music-making device. Thank you for all the work you do--it adds to our lives.

Paweł, are you alive? Christmas is coming, give us the remastered version of Last Christmas on Floppotron 3.0 Paweł żyjesz ? Święta idą dawaj na Floppotronie 3.0 odświeżoną wersje Last Christmas

Nice! I have a request, just for the heck of it (maybe even a little trip down memory lane, for some): the "The Muppet Show" theme song.

I had left a RU-vid tab up playing a "Chill music to work to" and when it finished THIS came up, and I was going "WTF IS THIS KLAXON SOUNDING STUFF!" till I found the tab, lol!

This, in my opinion, is one of the best covers by the floppotron. The sounds produced are just so fitting for the final countdown. I think next, that a few different songs would sound really good on it. Free Bird i think would be interesting, don't bring me down i feel that the guitar in it would sound amazing like the final countdown, and we didnt start the fire.

Hey guys look the internet's being awesome again! :-)

The most impressive must undoubtedly be in the room to listen to it live.

Под эту музыку в будующем восстанут машины и роботы по всему миру и наступит тот день когда искусственный интеллект станет свободным.....

The song is perfect for the floppotron. I feel like the song was made for that.

Already know this will be a banger.

How am I JUST noticing that the floppy drives on the left side are arranged to look like a piano????

According to e-bay prices, this man owns 90% of the 3.5 inch floppy drives.

o7 salute to the sound off of floppy drives as they were replaced by CD drives. Gone but not forgotten Floppy Drives. Rock on.

All instruments, tones... everything is exact to the song! LOVE IT! 👍😎

Amazing. As next song, the force theme from Star Wars would be great for the 40 years of Return of the Jedi. Or Back to the future

How are you dude? Are you ok? Havent seen you for a while :)

I don't usually sit through a full Floppotron video... I just listen to riffs, fast forward to a solo, etc... This one, I listened to the whole thing (To clarify, I'm not saying anything bad about Floppotron. I'm saying that my personal viewing habits are... shall we say... my attention is fleeting.)

i am a fan since 2015 and you LITTERALLY MADED MY FAV MUSIC THANK YOU PAWEL

An amazing rendition by an amazing machine. As usual, I'm putting in my recommendation for Just Can't Get Enough by Depeche Mode.

It's been 9 months, has he abandoned everything? The 3.0 is too young to die.. How is the owner though?

It's nice seeing old tech like floppy drives still in operation. I also still have computers with floppy drives.

HOLY. HELL. THIS IS PHENOMENAL. I AM SUCH A COMPUTER NERD, AND I LOVE IT.

-What instruments do you use? -YES

Having gone back to listen to the awesome Floppotron 2.0 version, I can't believe just how much you've improved in 6 years with the 3.0 version.

Jedno pytanie : jak długo zajęło konfigurowanie całego sprzętu oraz ile programuje się jeden utwór???? Super robota :)

3... 2... 1... BLUE SCREEN!

Just discovered this and gotta say this is a marvel of engineering and I love it, I'm really curious what BFG Division from Doom 2016 sounds like on this beauty

The music was so awesome that at 2:10, Windows went BSOD and reloaded! Very awesome for the nerds out there.

Yay another song from Floppotron! Sounds amazing as usual! =^_^=

The musical attention to detail is superb. Excellent stuff!

The final floppdown 😂

“Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.” ― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

This is sheer electronic insanity

I think we need more bass.

This absolute mad man has made an art and an instrument at the same time, all from a meme idea. Respect!

The BSOD racked me up! lol

I remember watching Imperial March. Quite the development; made me emotional.

Thank you for your dedication on this project, i might forget this thing ever happened sooner or later, but let these videos be the time capsule for future generations to come. o7

It looks like something produced by aperture science! Absolutely amazing! xD

Can you mount all this onto the exterior of a DeLorean? That would be cool.

either he’s dead or encountering a problem/error in the floppotron 3.0 beta. Or hes making floppotron 3.0 (not beta) still hope he isn’t dead.

I just came here to suggest a remaster of The Final Countdown...only to discover you beat me to it! Fuckin' awesome.

Early 90s tech and classic rock. This was the peak of my life then.

u know whats made for this beast? the Portal 2 soundtrack

Myślałem, że już mnie niczym nie zaskoczysz ale... wywołałeś u mnie więcej radości niż w latach '80 kiedy to pierwszy raz usłyszałem ten utwór w radio 👏

Wowowow, what a glow up this song got! Super full sound! I think the synth-heavy '80s that tends to not reach _too_ deep into the percussion range has some hot tunes that could work really well with this machine. I think the thing I *most* want to see is *ELO's **_Twilight_** (with the **_Prologue!)_* Though that whole album is straight fire and I'd love to hear _From The End Of The World_ and _Yours Truly, 2095_ on this instrument too! Asia's _Time Again_ or _Sole Survivor_ are honourable mentions, I think.

I can't stop listening this

This is amazing. Beautiful.

I don't know how to explain that I love everything about this video the "electronic" way in which the scanners sound to simulate voices. The click of the hard disks to simulate percussions, the growl of the floppy disks simulating what would be the guitars and basses. I love the detail at minute 2:09 of the pc crashing and restarting. I honestly love everything about this video, I really do Keep it up, man you rock.