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Recortes

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About this executable study

Recortes is reconstructed from its Applesoft BASIC listing and two original binary shape tables. The first five stages use shape 1 from S#RECORTES at $6000. The final stage switches to S#020 at $8000 and randomly selects one of sixty vector glyphs—numerals, uppercase letters, and lowercase letters.

The screen is cleared only when the program first begins. Later cycles draw over the accumulated image, as in the original GOTO 28 loop. Sound is recreated with Web Audio: the first two stages use the original 6502 speaker parameters, the isolated large form uses the program's default zero-valued D3, and the later placements use short speaker-click transients. In this validation build, the opening field excludes the two black HCOLOR values so every form remains visible.