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Re:Intel x86 Documentation Has More Pages Than The 6502 Has ... by TheRealSteel on Saturday August 05, 2023 @08:18AM (#37011281)
Look up 'racing the beam' if you haven't before. The answer is... you can't! It didn't have a frame buffer and lines had to be written to the display one at a time. There was a lot of sprite flicker as many games had more on screen than the console could actually display in one frame.
Re:Intel x86 Documentation Has More Pages Than The 6502 Has ... by beebeepka on Saturday August 05, 2023 @08:42AM (#37011443)
Pacman was horrible.