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   Baylor was espousing about 'Re: real sprites',
   on [10-03-92  04:54] to All!
 Ba> Not in this lifetime. Only the 8515 on up will support hardware 
 Ba> sprites (on an IBM, which by vga i assume is the case here), and then
 Ba> only one 16x16 sprite for mouse handling. And of course, no one gets,
 Ba> uses or programs for the 8515.
 Ba> No, you have to save the background somewhere each time, either
 Ba> on the video page or in ram. No way around software work that i know
 Ba> of.

    Reminds me of a project I wanted to do.  Build a
    "coprocessor" for VGA.  Where you could control "sprites" in
    the VGA display.  I never got around to doing it though.
    Such is life :) I still think it would have been a cool
    project.  The problem came with finding ANY information about
    programing the PC's DMA.  Since I couldn't get any I simply
    gave up.

        Stephen Cyberman@Toz.Buffalo.NY.US
        Scripted at Sun  10-04-1992  16:21:53

... Assumption is the mother of all screw-ups.
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