Suppose for a moment that I'm going to publish a new computer. Last time I did that, the showcase save ended up being quite dull and didn't get as much love as I'd expected. Well, I'm not going to make the same mistake twice, so I'll just ask ...

What sort of demo programs would you like to see in the showcase save?

There are a bunch I've already thought of:

• Minesweeper (doable)
• Snake (been done my last computer)
• Tetris (probably doable)
• Fancy plotting, planet orbits maybe? (probably doable)

Ehrm. It cannot. It could probably draw a cube with 8 vertices in a minute.

Guys, forget about 3D. Yeah, it's doable, and you'd get a frame every minute or so. Everybody loves slideshows, huh?

Look at it this way. This one is not much different from my previous computer. It executes as many instructions (one of addition* or similar, shift* or similar, jump, etc.) in a second as many frames your computer can simulate. The only way I know to plot vertices from 3D space to 2D space is with matrices. With that in mind, I'd like to see someone code a rotating cube with that.

I think I'll just stick to Tetris for now. I don't plan on building a pixel-based screen either, but I might, that's not the problem here.

*: And we're talking about (mostly positive) integers here, not fractions.