Posted By
YERZMYEY
on 2009-09-25
03:51:29
 |  Re: A reply to "The Letter (3-PLUS-1)"
"A flop"? Haha, and what criterion is that? 
Sam Coupe also wasn't sold in so many issues like ZX Spectrum 128K but Sam is still much more powerful computer than ZX128. No "flop" can change THIS.
Potatoes are still beeing sold in many shops. For hundreds of years. Does it mean they're more powerful than C64? And the same goes to socks.
>we all wished for hardware sprites sometimes
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Well, I don't. There are no sprites on Spectrum and there are thousands of games for it. Many good games're among them.
People write their own sprite engines and that's not only normal to me but even better.
Proof: last times Atari XL/XE sceners were making a conversion of "Bomb Jack" game. They also have hardware sprites so they tried to implement this feature to the game.
And what would You say - they abandon hardware sprites in the end, because they were too crap for the game. Having hardware sprites they wrote custom sprite-engine for the game and it stayed this way, because it appeared better solution.
It was my "5 cents" to the disscussion. 
Sorry for interrupt.
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