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Re: Animation Speed & Redraw

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From: Larry Phillips
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 1990 02:04
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In <T&B%'T@masalla.fulcrum.bt.co.uk>, S.J.Raybould@fulcrum.bt.co.uk (Simon Raybould) writes:
>In article <4265@crash.cts.com> uzun@pnet01.cts.com (Roger Uzun) writes:
>>between frames.  On a system like the amiga, this makes no sense, 
>>since hardware sprites can be reused and you get 128 pixels of 
>>sprite per scanline, and you DO NOT need to save the background
>
>WHAT ? I thought that the width of hardware sprites was restricted to 16 pixels.

That's right. 16 pixels horizontal per sprite, 8 sprites per scan line; 128
pisels of sprite imagery.

-larry

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