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something interesting about programming old computers like, say, a Commodore 64, vs programming a modern computer:

if you wanted to program a C64 to have graphical stuff, it wasn't trivial, but it wasn't hard. not a lot of help, but not a lot in the way

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could you do blazingly fast beautiful demos in BASIC on the C64? no but could you do SOMETHING? yes you could get some form of sprite graphics up and running in 8 lines of code, for instance: https://www.devili.iki.fi/Computers/Commodore/C64/Programmers_Reference/Chapter_3/page_153.html