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Bananoid was awesome because it could make use of the VGA offset registers for smooth scrolling. I was blown away when I saw it.
by mmastrac 6y ago
Bananoid was awesome because it could make use of the VGA offset registers for smooth scrolling. I was blown away when I saw it.
- the_af 6y agoOne VGA with multidirectional smooth scrolling that really impressed me, back in the day, was a shoot'em up called Zone66 [1]. It was hard to get running on DOS, but it was a beauty -- and fun, too! [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone_66 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone_66
- fullstop 6y agoDo you remember "VGA ART" ? https://archive.org/details/msdos_shareware_fb_VGAART https://archive.org/details/msdos_shareware_fb_VGAART I remember being very excited for Zone66 since I had seen other things by Renaissance and it used protected mode to squeeze every ounce of processing power out of my PC. In the end, though, the game just wasn't very fun. It had a cool introduction, though!