Looks pretty good!
And yes Axe 0.2.2 is outdated, it's up to 1.1.2 now.

As for the scripting system, I'm guessing he means having the patterns stored somehow and a routine runs through the stored data and uses that to tell where to create the bullets. This sort of thing could get complicated pretty fast, tho, so feel free to ask for help

I remember having one of those in elementary school..  I think it came with one of the book orders tho so it was prolly pretty cheap

And yeah I wear a watch basically everywhere too, tho just a $20 casio.

Black Friday is the day after thanksgiving (which is always on a Thursday fsr).

And as for Ti scrapping the z80s as cheap..that would be pretty dumb of them because that's a large part of what they're selling

That's pretty cool, but yeah not much of a point since they're such a large part of the screen anyways
(also I'm guessing it doesn't let focus move away?)

Here's another thing: ctrl+9/3 and ctrl+7/1 are like pgup/pgdn and home/end on a computer. Useful for that long documents list

Apps are fixed at 16384 bytes unfortunately
Have you tried crabcake or fullrene? With those you can make programs upwards of 20000 bytes.

913: You clicked print and copy/pasted it into a text document and posted it.

3571: You did this again except in html format
3572: It was too large to attach so you put it on your ftp
(1.3mb warning)

Try putting the T-- after the RectI(). If I'm reading the code right, that's what's erasing the rectangle?

Edit: ok looked it a bit more closely..what's going on is the top part of the rectangle isn't being erased, it's just being inverted every frame. If the rectangle were on the front buffer, you'd see it leaving a kind of flickery mess behind Because of how the grayscale works, it leaves a flickery crosshatch behind.
I'm guessing here, but try this:

375->T
Repeat T=0
RectI(76,62-(T*2/15),8,T*2/15)^r
T--
Rect(76,62-(T*2/15),8,T*2/15)^r
DispGraph^rr
End

Edit2: what heyleia did looks like it works too.