I'll recount this story just for the sake of nostalgia. Over the summer of 2001 or so I was having fun just writing little programs in VB5 while staying at my

I'll recount this story just for the sake of nostalgia. Over the summer of 2001 or so I was having fun just writing little programs in VB5 while staying at my Dad's house. I wrote a flashy looking MP3 player (basically a front end for Windows Media player I embedded into the project) which made extensive use of native Windows GUI API. All the animations were smooth and fast. I felt pretty good about myself. When summer was over I went back home and found that my MP3 player animations didn't run smooth on my PC. Slow, janky, lots of flickering. What the hell? Turns out my Dad's PC had a Matrox card in it and was massively faster at 2D rendering than my PC.