Wow.. I never realised companies used splits 
Always thought it was something from the demoscene..
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Wow.. I never realised companies used splits Always thought it was something from the demoscene..
The upper part of the screen in Space Mambo (Wammes!) is screen5, though the rest is screen4. That explains why the game runs so smoothly, even on a MSX2! (Well... aside from the moving border on such machines.)
And what do you think of Illusion City? It uses a pallette and screen split during conversations, to have character portraits using 16 different colours... Quite nifty
Everyone remembers Nyancle Racing from Bitni? IIRC that game uses a screensplit as well. The game is from 1988 I think...
Another famous MSX game with a split is ofcourse Quarth
But which game was the first? who 'invented' screen splitting? quite interesting
And what about the first really smooth horizontal scroll? 
When did we see that for the first time?