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From: indi (all posts)
Date: 1999-01-08
Subject: Re: Merry X-mas!
On Thu, 07 Jan 1999 20:57:58 +0100, you wrote:

>Hi,
>
>>I've more or less decided on a shoot-em up... I've finally got 12
>>masked/multi colour sprites on a scrolling backdrop... and it does
>>ALSO run on a real plus/4! (after a bit of a tweek!)
>
>At what framerate ?
2 frames.. although I'm going to run the actual game in 3...

>>I can have about 165 16x16 sprites... which should give a huge range
>>of baddies..
>How much does that take in memory ?
Just under 8K...(160 in fact...)
160*2 for sprite base address...

Each sprite holds...



16x16=32 bytes (4 chars)
17 bytes for caching sprite system.
(1 byte bitmask, and 8*2 addresses)

Mike
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