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Originally Posted by lmimmfn
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Very interesting website. He discussed the EGX trick. It has limited uses. One example is the game "Imperial Mahjong".
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Originally Posted by lmimmfn
They did implement a per pixel scroll mode 0 16 colour demo of Mario.
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It looks so fast I thought it was scrolling 2 pixels at time. Then later I realised the resolution is lower than the NES.
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Originally Posted by Bruce Abbott
BTW it's not only mediocre ports that might be improved. In 1986 when I transferred the Graphic Adventure Creator from tape to disk, I glanced at its code for filling areas in drawings and saw right away that it could be speeded up. 27 years later I finally published a patch that makes the fill function more than 5 times faster! |
That is interesting and exactly the kind of thing I like to hear about. There are a dozen text adventures on the CPC I'm keen to try, though I don't know if they use GAC or not.