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I always particularly loved the tech scroller shown in-game:

    TECHSCROLL DB 21 dup(1),'YEAH     YOU ARE PROBABLY WONDERING HOW IT IS POSSIBLE TO MAKE A GAME LIKE THIS ON THE PC'
      DB '                         FIRST OF ALL THE GAME IS CODED IN 100 PERCENT ASSEMBLER LANGUAGE              '
      DB '      WE RUN IN A SPECIAL VGA   320 X 240   OR   360 X 350   IN 256 COLOR MODE                        HARDWARE IS USED FOR SCROLLING THE TABLE           '
      DB '      THE FLIPPERS AND DOT MATRIX SCOREPANEL ARE DELTA ANIMATED AND TO MAKE THE GRAPHICS RUN FLICKER FREE WE ARE USING RASTER INTERRUPTS                      THE PALETTE IS USED FOR FLASHING THE LIGHTS      '
      DB '                     THE MUSIC ROUTINE HAS FEATURES SUCH AS SOFT CLIPPING AND INTERPOLATIVE MIXING          '
      DB '                  ALTOGETHER THIS MAKES THE GAME POSSIBLE TO RUN ON A 12 MHZ 286 WITH SOUNDBLASTER MUSIC AT 16KHZ IN EACH FRAME'
      DB 21 DUP (1),255


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