> to Commodore 64 level

That’s unfair to C64 which can smooth scroll very well.

npsomaratna 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I owned a C64. Remember how buttery smooth the interfaces of those '80s computers were?

	▲	cryptonector 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Not Apples. But Amigas, omg those were smooth.
	▲	ekianjo 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		fewer layers between software and hardware...

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sehugg an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Eh, the NES is better because you get two entire screen buffers. The C-64 gives you only one offscreen row or column to repaint every coarse scroll, and the colormap is fixed so you gotta move all of its bytes while racing the beam.

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nine_k 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Not by repainting the whole screen every frame!

	▲	sedatk 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Modern browsers don’t repaint the whole screen every frame either.