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Basic Computer Games is a modern revitalization of the classic “Basic Computer Games” book’s collection of games, ported and expanded into various modern, memory-safe and scripting languages. It includes illustrative code examples of many classic games (e.g. Blackjack, Bowling) in multiple languages, with the goal of making the historical games accessible and educational in safe modern environments.

...It’s set up more like an experiment or proof-of-concept than a polished end-user app, focusing on the plumbing for grabbing images from the webcam. The project shows how to access the camera stream, keep it running, and expose the captured output for later use or display. Because it’s in a regular GitHub repo and not a closed binary, you can inspect the code to see how device selection, frame acquisition, and UI/display are wired. This makes it useful for developers who want to add camera capture to a Windows tool or who need a barebones sample to build surveillance, monitoring, or computer vision toys on top of. ...

Feb. 2014: The project is still active; a new version with many changes is comming soon! NOTE: The Khronos group made a big shift in describing the OpenGL specification. Starting from OpenGL 4.4, the old .spec files are replaced by .xml which is great news for community, bad news for me and this project as it strongly depends on the old format. Currently I am working on the new version, but there's really a huge change, so please, be patient.