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I consider getting any sort of decent music out of the TIA to be a result on its own, even before the rest of the demo.
right? the demoscene is insane — this is the kind of thing that makes me want to program for a demo, but I don’t know where to start
Same here. I've tried to learn OpenGL multiple times, but keep getting distracted by the boilerplate and my distaste for C++isms.
The nice thing about stuff like 8-bit Game Boy programming or TempleOS is a sense of immediacy. You can put pixels on the screen with just a few lines of code in a way that keeps you motivated to try more, at least relatively speaking.