The Matrix effect started when I saw a youtube video of it wrote in BASIC. I really liked the effect but BASIC on the Commodore 64 is interpreted and performance is slow so I translated it to 6510 machine language. The line numbers in the BASIC version are referenced as comments above the 6510 machine language version's instructions to show how I translated each BASIC lines. There is also a compiled BASIC version (BOSS-BASIC) as I was curious to see how the hand rolled machine language would stack up to the generated one.

Press space bar on the machine language version to see the source code in Turbo Macro Pro or download the CBM Studio files below.

• Matrix Effect - CBM Studio Source code.
• Matrix Effect Demo - CBM Studio Source code.
• Matrix binary $1000 (SYS 4096)
• Original Matrix BASIC code on youtube.