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Article #22908Re: Sprites, Hardware, Chips et al.
From: ph9991_imm
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 04:22
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 04:22
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Cherborth@semprini.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca (Chris Herborth) writes: > In <1993Jan18.140856.644@rivers>, ph9991_imm@rivers.acc.uwrf.edu writes: >> What happened to the good ole' days of the C64/128's when you could buy ONE >> reference manual for the machine and you could use it to totally rebuild an >> old C64, or construct one from scratch? And they didn't withhold anything. >> (none of this "for further information consult..." bulls**t) > > Well, the world moved on, and personal computers got powerful... Well, yea, sure, but there's a difference between these sources being _difficult_ to get and IMPOSSIBLE to get. and yes, I've talked to many people and have sent many letters to the *nice* people in Sunnyvale, and THEY can't get me that kind of technical stuff! >> BTW... The revised edition manual that comes with Mark Williams C also has >> NO INFORMATION on hardware sprites. Damn! (though it did help alot with my >> bound VDI and AES routines :) > > Uh, there's no such thing as a hardware sprite on an ST... You'll need > a C-64, Atari 8-bit or Amiga for that. My apologies. I guess when "personal computers get powerful" a few sacrifices are made to benefit the whole machine. Larry I. -- larry.o.imm@uwrf.edu
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