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Simple Optimization Trick (infosec.pub)

submitted 6 days ago by Maven@lemmy.zip to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] yucandu@lemmy.world 20 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Epic Pinball was another game that I recall was written in assembly. When your old 286 struggled to run games at a decent framerate, Epic Pinball would run in a smooth 75fps or whatever you set your CRT monitor to.

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days 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)