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- From: peirce@outpost.SF-Bay.org (Michael Peirce)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Subject: Re: Sprites
- Message-ID: <D2150035.m4hhjw@outpost.SF-Bay.org>
- Date: 27 Dec 92 01:26:12 GMT
- Reply-To: peirce@outpost.SF-Bay.org (Michael Peirce)
- Organization: Peirce Software
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- In article <K-Y=lP=@engin.umich.edu> (comp.sys.mac.programmer), positron@engin.umich.edu (Jonathan Scott Haas) writes:
- > Does the Mac have sprites? I'd like to be able to draw something
- > in a window, then move it around without disturbing the background
- > beneath it. If that works, I'd maybe even like to do fancy stuff
- > like collision detection. How can I do this? (If the answer is "Read
- > Inside Mac", please tell me which volume I'll want.)
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- There are isn't any hardware support for sprites, but many people
- have rolled their own. It's not all that hard, but does take a basic
- understanding of bitmapped computer graphics.
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