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The Amiga 500 blitter was nothing to write home about, in my experience. Slow. But, moving 16bit words was a huge improvement compared to the C64 for obvious r
by OnlyMortal 4y ago
The Amiga 500 blitter was nothing to write home about, in my experience. Slow.
But, moving 16bit words was a huge improvement compared to the C64 for obvious reasons.
The one thing the C64 missed was full screen hardware scrolling. I don’t mean the pixel shifting.
I’m aware there’s a clever hack to get full screen scrolling - even at Sonic the Hedgehog rates.
This game leverages that: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ldo2ewLBt3Y https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ldo2ewLBt3Y