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Article #6200Re: Comments on STE -- (un)known facts
From: Scott Yelich
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 1989 15:26
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 1989 15:26
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> What this all adds up to is horizontal and vertical scrolling by bits, > and split-screen effects which are effortless and not memory- or > time-consuming. You can, for instance, load a large "landscape" into > memory, like a whole Gauntlet level, and slide the "window" around by > individual pixels, taking ZERO TIME rather than the huge time required > to move the memory around. In addition, you can have the static > (non-scrolling) part like the scores at the top or bottom: it won't > have to be moved around, copied, or anything. This sounds a lot like the old 8bits capabilities.... -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scott D. Yelich scott@cs.odu.edu [128.82.8.1] After he pushed me off the cliff, he asked me, as I fell, ``Why'd you jump?'' -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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