Re: Real Sprites

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From: Baylor
Date: Sat, 03 Oct 1992 04:54

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>Hi!
>	Can anyone tell me about "real sprites". I think it's in the hardware
>standard for VGA. Its supposed to let you draw sprites to the screen without
>have to redraw the background. Please send all replies via email. Thanks
>in advance.

	Not in this lifetime. Only the 8515 on up will support hardware 
sprites (on an IBM, which by vga i assume is the case here), and then
only one 16x16 sprite for mouse handling. And of course, no one gets,
uses or programs for the 8515.
	No, you have to save the background somewhere each time, either
on the video page or in ram. No way around software work that i know of.

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