To download stuff from the forums you have to have to be logged in with an account. I'll let Curt answer the other part of your question.
Mitch
The account needs to be validated by an admin too I think. I got an email that it had, tried again and it worked.
Thanks for posting this, it reminds me of trying to program Ataris to do playfield animation in 6502 assembler a long time ago. Though my playfield animation was a lot worse than Landon's.