Bisqwit's video: Halfway Point QBasic demo to celebrate 50000 subscribers

I have been observing a pattern where right as I am about to hit a round number in the subscribers count, I get a spike of more views & subscribers than usual. Only this time it doesn’t seem be happening. Oh well. Can’t have fun every week! Here’s a little something to celebrate the moment (50000 subscribers) anyway. Huge thanks to everyone who has contributed towards this number! Here’s hoping for another 50k :-) Become a member: https://youtube.com/Bisqwit/join The video is not sped up in any manner. However, I did design and test the program before starting recording the video. The whole video took about 4 hours to produce and was pretty much done at moment’s inspiration: 2 hours of programming & testing, 5 minutes of recording, 1 hour of encoding for YouTube publication, 15 minutes of uploading, and assorted time writing the description, captions etc. Because it was recorded using OBS (desktop recorder) and not using DOSBox’s built-in recorder, the video quality is unfortunately not as sharp as you are used to. If I used DOSBox’s built-in recorder, I could not have synced the microphone sound to the video because DOSBox has an internal clock that is separate from the host (real) clock. Nevertheless, I upscaled it to 4K so that people, who do have the bandwidth, will not get any extra blurring caused by lossy bitrates. Unfortunately slight buffering / lag in OBS caused a small pause in the middle of the video. The plasma effect in the background is generated using the diamond-square algorithm. I have usually seen it used recursively (for example in Fractint), but I did it iteratively here instead. I used this tutorial to do it: https://www.bluh.org/code-the-diamond-square-algorithm/ My links: Twitter: https://twitter.com/RealBisqwit Liberapay: https://liberapay.com/Bisqwit Patreon: https://patreon.com/Bisqwit (Other options at https://bisqwit.iki.fi/donate.html) Twitch: https://twitch.tv/RealBisqwit Homepage: https://iki.fi/bisqwit/ You can contribute subtitles: https://www.youtube.com/timedtext_video?ref=share&v=dNZcd9wr_Bc or to any of my videos: https://www.youtube.com/timedtext_cs_panel?tab=2&c=UCKTehwyGCKF-b2wo0RKwrcg