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Re: Sprite card?
- Subject: Re: Sprite card?
- From: a2@wilserv.com (Willi Kusche)
- Date: 14 Dec 2003 21:32:59 -0800
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: http://groups.google.com
- References: <srECb.380792$275.1230943@attbi_s53> <pY5Db.6737$J77.6483@fed1read07>
- Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.sys.apple2:1515
Hi, y'all!
salfter@salfter.dyndns.org (Scott Alfter) wrote in message news:<pY5Db.6737$J77.6483@fed1read07>...
> It would allow you to do bitmapped animation at faster speeds than what you
> get with a simple framebuffer display...in addition to telling it where you
> want it to draw a sprite, some of them will also do collision detection and
> other stuff that would've been useful in games. The chip used in this card
> was the same one that handled the graphics in the TI-99/4A back in the day.
Hmmm, spirited bidding for the card...
Willi