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- Alligata Software
- AMSOFT
- Anco Software
- Anirog
- Ariola Soft
- Beau Jolly
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- CRL
- CRONOSOFT
- Digital Integration
- Dinamic
- DMV
- Domark
- Durell
- Electric Dreams
- Electronic Arts
- Elite Systems
- Epyx
- Firebird
- ERE Informatique
- Grandslam
- Gremlin Graphics
- Hewson
- Hi-Tec Software
- Image Works
- Imagine
- Incentive
- Infocom
- Infogrames
- Konami
- Krisalis
- Kuma Computers
- Loriciel
- Lankhor
- Leisure Genius
- Level 9
- Magic Bytes
- Magnetic Scrolls
- Martec
- Mastertronic
- MBC
- Melbourne House
- Microids
- Microprose
- Microstyle
- Mikro-Gen
- Mindscape
- Mirrorsoft
- New Age Software
- Ocean
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- Palace Software
- Players
- PSS
- Psygnosis
- Radical Software
- Rainbird
- Rainbow Arts
- Silmarils
- System 3
- The Edge
- Titus Software
- Topo Soft
- Tynesoft
- Ubi Soft
- Ultimate Play The Game
- US Gold
- Virgin
- Vortex Software
- Weeske
- Zeppelin Games
- Zigurat
Games Which use hardware tricks (on old generation cpcs)
Useful if you want to dissect games to work out how they did it.
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Hardware Scrolling
- R3 used to make an approximate byte lenght horizontal scroll (not really smooth)
- R5 used to make smoother vertical scroll (1 line)
Title | Year | Vertical | Horizontal | R3 | R5 | Confirmed |
Action Force | No | Yes | No | No | ||
Anarchy | No | Yes | No | No | ||
Axys | Yes | No | No | Yes | ||
Bob Morane Science Fiction | 1987 | Yes | Yes | No | No | |
Builderland | No | Yes | No | No | ||
FlySpy | Yes | Yes | No | No | ||
Ghosts 'n' Goblins | No | Yes | No | No | ||
Led Storm | 1988 | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes |
Legend of Kage | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
Le 5eme Axe | 1985 | Yes | Yes | No | No | |
Mission Genocide | Yes | No | No | Yes | ||
Monty Python's Flying Circus | 1990 | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes |
Octoplex | 1989 | Yes | Yes | No | Yes(?) | Yes |
Prehistorik 2 | 1992 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Prohibition | 1987 | Yes | Yes | No | No | |
Rick Dangerous 2 | No | Yes | No | No | ||
Roland On the Ropes | Yes | Yes | No | No | ||
Skatewars | 1989 | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
Stryker In The Crypt Of Trogan | 1992 | Yes | Yes | No | No | |
Super Cauldron | 1992 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Titan | Yes | Yes | No | No |
Rupture
A technique to split the screen into more than one block vertically. (independant videoram offset) Used to hardware scroll one part of the screen while another is static.
Title | Year | Confirmed |
Action Force | ||
Dynamic Duo | ||
Enlightenment: Druid 2 | ||
Grell and Falla | ||
Octoplex | 1989 | Yes |
Prehistorik 2 | 1992 | |
Skatewars | 1989 | Yes |
Snowstrike | ||
Super Cauldron | 1992 | |
Turrican | 1990 | Yes |
Usagi Yojimbo | ||
Xyphoes Fantasy | ||
Sol Negro(opera) |