It's Halloween, programming is an art form and there's a darker side to it. Come with me in this fun video as I explore several languages that hate you and are trying to make your life difficult, before we go off down the rabbit hole and find some truly horrific examples of real programming. There's languages that are hard to read, languages that are deliberately hard to understand with nonsensical rules and syntax. Then there's the true evil cooked up at 3am when programmers really need to get their job finished and nobody cares how they get it done. No, this video is not just a trip through the Esolangs website picking out the usual suspects, it gets far far worse. Did you ever think regular expressions were a good idea, or write CGI programs in Perl? Maybe you're a seasoned C programmer and have had a look at the madness on display in the Obfuscated C contest. Support ------- Support me by simply clicking the "like" button or pressing "subscribe"! That's it. No hard sell, just let me know you saw this video and thought it worth watching for more than 30 seconds. These videos take time and effort to make, and if people watch them they'll keep coming out. If you think my efforts are worth a bit of pocket change, feel free to go to my Ko-fi link https://ko-fi.com/ncot_tech Credits ------------ Video by Dmitri Posudin: https://www.pexels.com/video/colorful-artwork-and-design-1307329/ Video by Bronze Digitals: https://www.pexels.com/video/video-of-a-candle-inside-a-halloween-pumpkin-5780924/ Video by Dimitar Dimitrov: https://www.pexels.com/video/a-person-typing-on-a-laptop-keyboard-4496268/ Video by Oleg Gamulinskii: https://www.pexels.com/video/blazing-fire-2715412/ Video by Ehab El Gapry: https://www.pexels.com/video/a-motion-graphic-design-6238188/ Horror, Violin Tremolo Cluster, B.wav - https://freesound.org/people/InspectorJ/ ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uNI3_fonEk

Let's look at how to make an 8bit computer produce graphics normally seen on an Amiga. The Spectrum Next contains extra hardware that lets us very accurately control when things happen relative to the screen being drawn. This is done using a piece of hardware called the "copper". The copper is a processor external to the main CPU and can be given a list of instructions to follow that are synchronised to the generation of the screen. By cleverly manipulating the Spectrum Next's registers we can create some impressive visual effects normally only seen on 16 bit machines like the Amiga. In this video I explain how to create the classic copper bars effect, some nice gradient backgrounds and parallax scrolling. The full source for this is available on my github, linked below and a detailed explanation of the code is on my website also linked below. If you manage to make anything with this, let me know in the comments or send me a message on Twitter - @ncot_tech In-depth written version: https://docs.ncot.uk/spectrum-next/copper/index.html Github - https://github.com/ncot-technology/specnext-copper Blog - https://ncot.uk/spectrum-next/the-copper Chapters ======= Overview - 00:53 The Copper - 01:57 Copper Programming Overview - 05:10 Copper Bars - 06:28 Parallax Scrolling - 14:14 Outro - 16:52 ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IokhD9dArv0