Is there any PC88 expert that can explain where is the trick? it does appear to scroll by brute force the display.....
I'm wondering why on a msx1/2 we are unable to achieve this with the same CPU the more advanced VDP and hw sprites...!
That's not a PC88 series machine, it's the last of the PC-8001 series, the PC-8001 mkIISR with dedicated graphics (dual planes, half the resolution of a PC88 so less VRAM to move and a high speed blitter) and sound hardware.
Probably the Japanese Wikipedia article is the best source out there. Despite being pretty powerful, it was a short lived machine and there's not too much info in the web.
Very nice version, I would love that Namco should produced a MSX2 version of Pac Land, was one of my favourites coin ops. We only had the Spectrum port for MSX1, that in any case has a very nice music and not so bad graphics considering they are monochrome.
