I sounds crazy, but drawing directly on the screen is not a good idea. At least in case when you
want to make some animations. The problem is - and this is a common issue for all computers and
videocards, not just for VGA - that if you make modifications on the screen while the card reads
the data from the video memory, the screen might be flickering and sometimes you see glitches. To avoid this
issue we have to synchronize our operations to the electron beam. This means that you have to wait while the
electron beam starts its retrace (usually vertical retrace, becasue the horizontal retrace is really short) and
then make all modifications on the screen as soon as possible. In this was the screen will be updated when the
electron beam does not draw anything, in other words the VGA card does not read the video memory.
