On Tue, 6 Jan 1998, Nick S Bensema wrote:
> Because, it's bneen made clear from other mesages that the kernel is just
> too tight to do something as complicated as copying a shape into a player
> object. As other messages have stated, the best solution is to use the
How many cycles does it take to move a pointer to different shape data?
If it isn't many, do you think it's theoretically possible to optimize the
kernel to free up those cycles, perhaps if SC RAM is used as a bitmap
instead?
> acting as an explosion. Maybe one or two more bytes for random number
> generation, if there isn't one already.
The problem with the missile is that it results in one big ugly box, which
isn't much more appealing than the invader just disappearing.
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