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2004-07-06 07:19

Oswald

Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 5127

less tall sprites

AFAIR once xbow broke the max onscreen sprites record, by using less tall sprites, what is the trick to make a sprite end sooner as 21 lines ?

2004-07-06 07:55

Steppe

Registered: Jan 2002
Posts: 1510

It was in the demo Krestage: They made an option to display a help screen where the trick was explained.

2004-07-06 09:12

bOOZElEE

Registered: Dec 2002
Posts: 36

might be of some use:
http://www.softwolves.pp.se/misc/arkiv/cbm-hackers/0/0629.html

2004-07-09 12:54

Krill

Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 3098

yeps, the famous sprite crunching. yet, harder to achieve than stretched sprites (tolerance of 1 cycle or so for the d017 writes, iirc) and quite seldomly applicable =)

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