No, Apple games did not flicker. We used screen swapping to stop that. It's the first lesson I learned as a video game programmer: flicker not allowed. I don't

No, Apple games did not flicker. We used screen swapping to stop that. It's the first lesson I learned as a video game programmer: flicker not allowed. I don't know what your deal is with the word "awkward." As someone who wrote a lot of games on Apple, C64, and one each on the PC and Amiga, I've earned the right to use whatever innocuous word I want to describe a vague feeling that I have. Mind you, all that more than 35 years ago. Perhaps I am misremembering how non-awkward it all was. I did not do anything with the Atari. I was merely told by my boss and friend Dale Disharoon how strange he found it. Yes, we liked the C64 collision detection. The main awkwardness about the C64 was, at the time I was first working with it, that it was all undocumented. I just think it's awkward to call information to get the phone number of a writer of a magazine article in Toronto to find out how to work the vertical blank interrupt, since there was no reference manual at that time. The Amiga manuals were full of errors when they first came out. I suppose I am a lazy learner. As you can read all about in my book about being a high school dropout, published by Simon and Schuster (get your copy in Korean today!). Also see page 60 of this issue of Compute Gazette (https://archive.org/details/1983-11-computegazette/page/n59/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/1983-11-computegazette/page/n59/...).