Coding old videogames

While chatting with one of my children as they played on the Nintendo Switch, talk of sprites reminded me of raster interrupts and I wondered if modern hardware makes them obsolete. Apparently so: Wikipedia's page about them mentions system support approximately through the 1980s. It is nice to see the two Commodore systems listed there: despite the company's series of poor business decisions I recall finding their hardware a rewarding pleasure to program for.

Some simple background: ( Raster interrupts offer a workaround for graphics hardware limitations. )