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LeChuck · 19 January 2021, 14:26

Thank you for setting me straight on hardware scrolling AND the palette of EGA, obviously my knowledge of the EGA specs is lacking.

Commander Keen I believe was the first PC platformer with nice and smooth scrolling and it was an EGA game, AFAIK John Carmack didnt use any sort of harware scrolling and that adaptive tile refresh engine he was doing was all software based.

Enchanted Land on Atari ST came out 1990 like Commander Keen but also featured several layers of parallax. Surely a decently high clocking 286 with an EGA card should have been able to achieve parallax scrolling in the right hands too?

19 January 2021, 14:26	#6
LeChuck Registered User Join Date: Aug 2020 Location: Helsinki Posts: 23	Thank you for setting me straight on hardware scrolling AND the palette of EGA, obviously my knowledge of the EGA specs is lacking. Commander Keen I believe was the first PC platformer with nice and smooth scrolling and it was an EGA game, AFAIK John Carmack didnt use any sort of harware scrolling and that adaptive tile refresh engine he was doing was all software based. Enchanted Land on Atari ST came out 1990 like Commander Keen but also featured several layers of parallax. Surely a decently high clocking 286 with an EGA card should have been able to achieve parallax scrolling in the right hands too?