reminds me of werkkzeug which was used to produce demos by farbrausch back in the days

https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=12511

Explanations of how werkkzeug works

https://youtu.be/P7MNvUz5yyU?si=N1zED81UlYfuAV8N

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUfV41HE_Dg

wow, I never saw those videos! thanks for linking

Immediately after seeing werkkzeug, I started coding my own wz clone.

Here is a video of what it was like around 2009. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPYy8lry2do