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Uploaded by on Apr 5, 2007

I wrote a program to simulate an erupting volcano in Atari BASIC and filmed the results, frame-by-frame. Enjoy!

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  • Hi Foebane72. I saw your video a while back and I was impressed with it. I saw you use this as a response to my video just today. Could you describe at all how you did it, besides it being written in Basic? Was it based on an abstract mathematical concept, or was there some physics to it?

  • @mmille10 No fancy maths, just simple maths that I knew at the time. Heck, I was only a teenager when I wrote this, and I hadn't even passed my Maths neither! I used to attempt 3D starfields as well, but they never worked out right, the perspective was all wrong. When the volcano's particles hit the "ground", they simply slow down their fall. As they fall further and further, I scrolled the screen up to follow them. It gives a good sense of the lava "creeping", doesn't it?

  • So when did you program this Foebane, I assume it wasn't recent due to it obviously being on film, I could be wrong though. It is a great looking program though, it almost looks like it is in 3D!

  • I think it was 1989, when I got the Super 8 camera I filmed it on. The program was frame-by-frame, not realtime, but I think that's why I wrote it, so I could try out fancy animations. I wrote other programs for the camera as well, but they're long gone. As is this one.

  • It's a very cool result

  • Thank you :)

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  • Great dude!

  • hola, sabes como puedo pasar una foto a 8bit en lenguaje basic atari. XD

  • Sorry, the program's long since gone, and it didn't run in realtime either, since it was in BASIC. I just let it generate a frame and then captured it with the cine camera.

  • I want this program =) was it very long?

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