05-06-2025, 01:30 PM
Hi folks! I'm the Peter Cooper who created the BASIX Fanzine back in the day (1994 I think?) and the first version of the raycaster you're talking about here. I am now a bit older, I was a teenager at the time, but still programming every day!
I found this post because I've just created a new raycaster in Go as an exercise to see how far I can stretch so-called "vibe coding" (i.e. just using LLMs to write all the code) and the experiment has gone pretty well. I thought I'd see if I could find the code for my original raycaster from... 30 years ago
and found this post! I'm super surprised to see a reference to it in 2025 and figured it'd be rude if I didn't say hi. I don't know what this forum's etiquette is like on self-linking but if you want to see my new raycaster in action hit up "cooperx86" on X and it's the latest post right now - just a video but I can slap the code up on GitHub at some point.
![[Image: Screenshot-2025-05-06-at-14-30-02.png]](https://i.ibb.co/vSfdChG/Screenshot-2025-05-06-at-14-30-02.png)
I found this post because I've just created a new raycaster in Go as an exercise to see how far I can stretch so-called "vibe coding" (i.e. just using LLMs to write all the code) and the experiment has gone pretty well. I thought I'd see if I could find the code for my original raycaster from... 30 years ago
and found this post! I'm super surprised to see a reference to it in 2025 and figured it'd be rude if I didn't say hi. I don't know what this forum's etiquette is like on self-linking but if you want to see my new raycaster in action hit up "cooperx86" on X and it's the latest post right now - just a video but I can slap the code up on GitHub at some point.