In 1999, I was in high school and continued to actively study Chinese implementations of the Basic languages.
During this period, I was fascinated by mathematics and I used Q-Basic to write programs that helped me solve mathematical problems.
I also did not give up trying to make games. However, the capabilities of the G-Basic language (special implementation of Basic for games) were not enough.
Apart from programming, I tried to use my 8-bit keyboard to create animations.
Just imagine, I had a TV screen at my disposal, where I could draw some images with huge “pixels”, something like this:
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I wrote code that drew one or more frames, and then I recorded the video on a VHS videotape. Sometimes I separately added an audio stream from a tape recorder.
Aleksey Nemiro
2023-09-05