Henk Rogers: Um, I like Pascal. Assembler is my go-to. But never underestimate…
Alexey Pajitnov: …the power of BASIC.

From the movie Tetris (2023).

It has been a long while that I wanted to write this article. The usual motivation is to propose another of my BASIC programming explorations performed in the 80s on my Philips MSX VG-8010 and Amiga 500 microcomputer. The exploration was encouraged by the reading of another of the brilliant articles by A. K. Dewdney in his column “Ricreazioni al Calcolatore” (Computer Recreation) of Le Scienze, the edition in Italian of Scientific American [1]. Dewdney’s article was inspired by the beautiful book by Thomas F. Banchoff [2] who pioneered in the early 1990s the study using computer graphics of hyperdimensional objects.

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