High-performance interactive graphics

In the early days of computers, it was common for people to use BASIC to write their own programs (utility and otherwise). Lee Adams' Supercharged Graphics was a book in which the author explained methods for doing different, more advanced (graphics) things in BASIC, and then provided the source code for several sample applications (a paintbrush program, a 2-D and 3D graphics program, and so on). Later, he released High-Performance Interactive Graphics, which concentrated more on gaming than graphics themselves (although he covered both). This book had less in the way of sample programs, but…