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Even if it was done in software, it was still easier to write against planes because you had to run on hardware with wildly different hardware capabilities, so
by dbt00 8y ago
Even if it was done in software, it was still easier to write against planes because you had to run on hardware with wildly different hardware capabilities, so drawing routines were far easier to parameterize over planes than over various bit packing mechanisms.
- rasz 8y ago>wildly different hardware what do you mean? NES never changed, Amiga was always compatible with itself, nothing changed.