Uploaded July 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 days ago

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This is part of a new series of videos covering Projects and Design using the PowerBasic Windows compiler. These videos may be longer than the Snippet videos as they cover projects in detail.

This project is to create simulation of a globular cluster within a graphics window, and illustrate the migration of four civilisations over time to the stars.

Today we are amending the code to save the graphics window as an image and the data in the Stars array as a CSV file after each processing cycle.

00:00 - Introduction
01:37 - Outputting CSV data
07:01 - Closing App when Graphics window closes
08:48 - Testing CSV Output
11:45 - Saving the Graphics Window
15:25 - Building an animation
16:32 - Summary

I don't work for, nor am I paid or sponsored by, the owners of PowerBASIC, I'm just a fan of their products.

For more information on PowerBASIC visit
pbusers.org
OR
pump.richheimer.de/index.php

Music by ghosthack.de

Source files for these projects are available from here
gsfsoftware.co.uk/PBTutorials/Projects.htm

GitHub
github.com/gsfsoftware/Tutorials/tree/master/Projects_StarMigration_part3