An excerpt of the style used by ST-News editor Stefan Posthuma...

...Ok, practical now. Let's create a raster.

First of all, we need a safe way to trigger timer B. Why not use the level 4 interrupt which occurs each time the electron beam reaches the bottom of the screen. Here we set the value for timer B and in that scan line, the interrupt will occur! So if we want a raster on scan line 100, we activate timer B with a value of 100 in the level 4 interrupt and wait for the timer B interrupt.

Uh oh....strange things are happening....

 MFP 68901: Hi guys! Interrupt time!
 68000    : No way, I'm tired...leave me alone!
 MFP 68901: Ah, come one, just one little interrupt...
 68000    : Forget it, go away!
 MFP 68901: Ok, have it your way.
 68000    : Fine.
 MFP 68901: OVERRIDE!!!!!!
 68000    : OUCH!!!
 MMU      : Hey? What's going on? Who is overriding there without
            filing the proper request at my address bus?
 MFP 68901: I am and you can't stop me.
 68000    : Groan...
 MMU      : Stop it right now or I'll have to get involved here.
 68000    : Yeah, stop this idiot!
 MFP 68901: Fools!
 MMU      : SYNCHRONIZE!!
 Shifter  : AAAAAAHHHHH! My borders!!!
 MMU      : Ooops, wrong interrupt level.
 MFP 68901: Wow! no borders, let's throw some rasters in there!
 Shifter  : NO!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGRRLLL!!
 68000    : Hey guys, what about me?
 MMU, MFP 68901: We're having fun.  In fact,  we haven't had this
                 much fun since the Union Demo.
 Shifter  : WHAT???!! UNION DEMO??!!!? AAAAAAAHAHAAAAAHAAHAAA!!!
 68000    : Nurse!!
 MMU      : Yeah,  border  here,  synchro there.....I'm having  a
            blast.
 MFP 68901: Ok, what does this address do?
 Shifter  : AHAHAAAAAAAAAGGRRRLGGALAAAHAAHAHHH!!!!
 68000    : Hey, look out!!
 Gemdos critical error handler: PANIC!
 Exception vector: ZAP!
 68000, MMU, MFP 68901: Uh oh.....
 Shifter  : UNION DEMO!!!  RAAAAAAHHH! LOST BOYS!! GROOOOOWWWLL!!
            CAREBEARS!!! AAAAAAAAAAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHGGGGGLLLlllpp..
 ST       : CRASH!!
 Stefan   : F.CK!!


As you might have guessed, Union Demo, Lost Boys and CareBears were the best demos and demo groups on Atari ST in the end of 80's --- Eero