Matrix-style digital rain screensaver

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MarkTheStrange
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Matrix-style digital rain screensaver

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This renders a version of the digital rain display seen in The Matrix.

Try It Now!

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It's all PETSCII (no halfwidth kana characters, sorry). It doesn't do anything else – no messages fade in or anything – but it does have a bit of variability. You can use the + and - keys to make it faster or slower, or switch from the default all-green look to a festive tricolor scheme inspired by Mardi Gras by pressing M (press G to go back to all-green):

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First attempt in BASIC was far too slow, so this was written in Prog8. The source code is available at GitHub.


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