Monday Links from the Still Point of the Turning World vol. DCLXXXX

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Yeah but that was back in the day when they were competing. I mean nowadays when our understanding of computing has moved on. Are there clever logic manipulations now that weren't understood back then or is any tinkering constrained by the architecture of the chip and fixed logic. You get me? For example, I think we had an article on the either the Spectrum or the Commodore where tricks were found in both display and sound to produce more colours and multi-tone sounds above what the actual hardware was designed to do.

I think now you're heading down the road of "Undocumented Instructions"...
https://www.os2museum.com/wp/undocum...pcodes-part-i/

On the PC graphics side, I certainly remember "Mode X" having a cult following... 320 pixels across, 200 rows, 1 byte per pixel...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mode_X