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Another Platinum project that completely passed us by, is SpecBAS by Paul Dunn - @ZXDunny on Twitter. 

But before you actually click either link, check out this demo video first.

That so little code can create so much screen fireworks, is always amazing. In this case however, it actually seemed rather unbelievable to us. The fact is, that the code of the demo called bubble_universe actually works. But it is so performant and colorful only thanks to Paul's modern BASIC environment.

This in turn is really ingenious. Because it not only makes arbitrary code run with much more CPU cycles per second, it also increases the number of available colors as well as the maximum resolution and aspect ratio.

If you liked BASIC on Sinclair's machines, you'll love SpecBAS. Unfortunately only for Windows and a bit fiddly to install, but there are emulators for that.