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Originally Posted by Foebane
Sorry, but the id Software story Masters of Doom never mentioned anything about EGA hardware scrolling when Carmack cracked smooth scrolling on PC, they said it was down to him only updating the parts of the screen that needed to be updated. Now THAT'S genius.
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Masters of Doom is a great book, but certain parts of it do not really connect well with how the people involved explain it after the fact. This may well be one of them, although I do remember reading that the hardware scrolling was mentioned in the book itself... I'd need to dig it up again.
I wouldn't know myself how updating parts of the screen would help you with scrolling, everything moves and thus everything needs to be updated.