Man, this makes me remember the good old times of linear framebuffers and how easy it was for literally any gfx coder to modify VGA registers to achieve interes

Man, this makes me remember the good old times of linear framebuffers and how easy it was for literally any gfx coder to modify VGA registers to achieve interesting effects. Like ModeX. Or smooth scrolling through videoram. Or split screens. Rasterbars. Custom resolutions (on CRTs) which, like magic, worked everywhere anyway despite not being officially supported.