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		jlarcombe on Feb 28, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How Crash Bandicoot hacked the original Playstatio... Yes. It's possible to do on the Acorn but few games at the time took the trouble to do so. It requires very accurate cycle counting. There have been a number of recent demos that take things to the next level though, and someone has even got raster interrupts working on the Electron, which is frankly astonishing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUl1SGUSkbI

weinzierl on Feb 28, 2020 [–]

I've also heard that there is a hardware mod to give the Acorn true raster interrupts.

ddingus on Feb 28, 2020 | [–]

Like the Apple 2, having so much logic exposed, due to use of discrete logic chips, there are mods to do lots of things.

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