04-26-2022, 03:29 PM
Years ago there were ads in computer magazines, I think including BYTE, that had a neat little graphic BASIC program creating a "hat", one pixel at a time. I don't know if it advertised hardware or software or Geico, but I entered it and ran it and was impressed.
This code is my recreation of it, but it's not as good as the original. I think the colors are right, but the texture is wrong and the backside shows through. The original somehow PSET the near stuff over the far stuff. When it ran on a BASIC interpreter on a 2MHz computer, is was a pleasure to watch it for the many seconds it took to run. With the QB64 compiler on a xGHz computer it is TOO FAST. I put in a _DELAY .03 to allow the thrill to last 12-seconds or so.
I would like to get the original code. If somebody else was impressed with it like I was and has the magazine issue or has the code on a 8" floppy, I would appreciate it. I've browsed a few issues from https://archive.org/download/BYTE-MAGAZINE-COMPLETE but haven't come across it.
(Are images restricted to 1x1? Is there a way to get the images side by side?)
This code is my recreation of it, but it's not as good as the original. I think the colors are right, but the texture is wrong and the backside shows through. The original somehow PSET the near stuff over the far stuff. When it ran on a BASIC interpreter on a 2MHz computer, is was a pleasure to watch it for the many seconds it took to run. With the QB64 compiler on a xGHz computer it is TOO FAST. I put in a _DELAY .03 to allow the thrill to last 12-seconds or so.
I would like to get the original code. If somebody else was impressed with it like I was and has the magazine issue or has the code on a 8" floppy, I would appreciate it. I've browsed a few issues from https://archive.org/download/BYTE-MAGAZINE-COMPLETE but haven't come across it.
(Are images restricted to 1x1? Is there a way to get the images side by side?)