From: Vanessa Ezekowitz (vanessaezekowitz_at_gmail.com)
Date: 2008-12-12 10:10:17
This thread makes me wish I'd released this little program I wrote back in 1986 or so. It handled low-resolution 40x25 black-and-white images, so nothing particularly fancy. As I recall, the program supported around 25 or 30 distinct images, and you could create an "animation sequence" up to 255 frames long. The pinnacle of BASIC programming (hah!) :-)
I modeled the program after the Etch-a-Sketch Animator [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etch_A_Sketch#Etch_A_Sketch_Animator ], a nice little toy that was popular back then.
The files were simple uncompressed memory dumps. Damn things took about upwards of 35 minutes to load from tape depending on how many unique frames the file had. :-)
Hmm... Rewriting it might make for a nice project in the future. Maybe update it like I'd planned to back then (to 80x50 in 2-bit grayscale).
--
"There are some things in life worth obsessing over. Most
things aren't, and when you learn that, life improves."
Vanessa Ezekowitz <vanessaezekowitz@gmail.com>
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