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Prepare to be amazed and watch "Copper" by Surprise!Productions (1992) [1]. It has hardware zooming, vertical and horizontal copper bars, and even a horizontal
by smokel 3y ago
Prepare to be amazed and watch "Copper" by Surprise!Productions (1992) [1].
It has hardware zooming, vertical and horizontal copper bars, and even a horizontal wobble all on a regular VGA card (although not many cards or emulators support it)!
One interesting VGA hardware effect in this context which I have not seen in any demo, is to change the character width from 8 to 9 pixels _during_ a horizontal scanline. The trick is to use RDTSC to estimate the pixel position, with which you can create a nice wobble effect in text mode. Obviously, this requires a Pentium or higher, and at the time this became possible, text mode was rather outdated.
[1] https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=2048 https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=2048