To be fair, that was also possible on some other 8-bit home computers of the time, but required the CPU to get involved (with tricky timing code to write the ha

To be fair, that was also possible on some other 8-bit home computers of the time, but required the CPU to get involved (with tricky timing code to write the hardware registers at the right time). The 8-bit Atari's display list coprocessor is basically the daddy of the Amiga's Copper :)