I highly, highly recommend the wonderful book: _Racing the Beam_ ... if you are at all interested in stories like this of bending hardware (in this case, the

I highly, highly recommend the wonderful book: _Racing the Beam_ ... if you are at all interested in stories like this of bending hardware (in this case, the Atari 2600) to the will of the programmer. (The Atari 2600 didn't have a framebuffer - you had to tell the electron beam what color to paint in real time, sync'd to the clock of the CPU. This was called "racing the beam")