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Adaptive tile refresh

Adaptive tile refresh is a computer graphics technique for side-scrolling video games. It was most famously used by id Software's John Carmack in games such as Commander Keen to compensate for the poor graphics performance of PCs in the early 1990s. Its principal innovation is a novel use of several EGA hardware features to perform the scrolling in…

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Adaptive tile refresh

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related to history · 17
Adaptive tile refresh → Adaptive, Carmack, Carmack's, Commander Keen, Copyright Infringement, Dangerous Dave, John Romero, Marooned, Mars, Nintendo, Nintendo's Super Mario Bros, PC, Softdisk, Software, Software's, The, This
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Adaptive tile refresh → EGA, It, The
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Adaptive tile refresh → computer graphics technique for side-scrolling video games

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Adaptive tile refreshis acomputer graphics technique for side-scrolling video games0.90text
Commander Keen to compensate for the poor graphics performance of PCs in the early 1990sinstance ofIt was most famously used by id Software's John Carmack in games0.80text
Adaptive tile refreshrelated to historyAdaptive0.60section
Adaptive tile refreshrelated to historyDangerous Dave0.60section
Adaptive tile refreshrelated to historyCopyright Infringement0.60section
Adaptive tile refreshrelated to historyCarmack0.60section
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Adaptive tile refreshrelated to historyJohn Romero0.60section
Adaptive tile refreshrelated to historySoftdisk0.60section
Adaptive tile refreshrelated to historyThis0.60section
Adaptive tile refreshrelated to historyNintendo's Super Mario Bros0.60section
Adaptive tile refreshrelated to historySoftware0.60section

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