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Programming methods used in games

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/* Hardware Scrolling */
If the game uses a status panel, there are 2 ways to handle this.
1. # Redraw the panel when the screen is scrolled to compensate for it.2. # Use rupture technique, the panel is in a different part of RAM and will not be affected by the scroll.
This following is an incomplete list of games using hardware scrolling. From this list it can be seen that hardware scrolling has been used from 1984 :
| No
| Yes
| Yes
|-
| [[Wonderboy]]
| 1987
| Yes
| No
| No
| No
| Yes
|-
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