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denzil
on July 15, 2022
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Scorched Earth: The Mother of All Games
My guess would be Mode X, it was quite popular in games at the DOS/VGA times:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mode_X
bananaboy
on July 15, 2022
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The default resolution is 360x480x256 colour, a variant on mode X also described by Abrash in his Dr Dobbs articles!
malkia
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We didn't had access to that book then on, but it was described in various .txt files from demo groups, though I've found them later (like arround assembly 93 or 94 came out)
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