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Simple Optimization Trick (lemmy.zip)

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[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago

Epic Pinball, if I recall correctly, also used some ModeX trickery, meaning it had most of the pinball table in VRAM, and then modified the VGA framebuffer pointer for scrolling, then only moving as much data as it was needed (ball, flippers, etc)