[vunderba]

Nice.

Mine is definitely more about achieving as close to perfect parity as possible with Microsoft QBASIC (a dog-eared copy of the Microsoft QuickBASIC Compiler book circa 1985 is sitting on my desk right now), but it also dives pretty deeply into the technical decisions behind some of QBasic’s quirks and how it worked with MS‑DOS at the time.

So it’s just as much an educational tool for understanding how BASIC pulled off certain effects. And with the hardware abstraction layer, it also mimics period‑appropriate hardware (386SX, 486DX, etc.).

I took a look at the video. The only thing is that I had a hard time making out what was going on. I could clearly see the green cannon at the bottom, but at the top it just kind of turned into a smeary, artifact-y mess. I don’t know if that was a result of vimeo's compression or what, but I'd consider re‑uploading it at a higher quality.