>> When you say "the prior line only had one RESPx", where exactly is the
>> position of that RESP0? If that RESP0 is at position, say, 40... then on
>> the next line you hit RESP0 again at 40, you will get a sprite at position
>> 40, but it was caused by the *first* line's RESP0, not the second. Because
>> 40 is the current position of the sprite, it starts displaying at position
>> 40, because the RESP0 for line 2 hasn't happened yet - as far as the TIA is
>> concerned, it's simply a standard sprite positioning and display.
>
>You know, this has always been a very confusing point to me. The idea
>that you do your RESPx to set up for the next line. If it's true, it
>means that when you're doing multiple RESPx on a line, then somehow, TIA
>is buffering them, remembering them all for the next line. I don't know
>about that... I tend to think about TIA as if it's rendering in real
>time, reacting to RESPx pretty much right away. But I'm probably
>wrong... ;-)
The idea is *usually* that you do your RESPx to set up for the next line,
yes. Think of it that any hit to RESP0 takes effect *eight pixels after
the hit*, which I'm almost sure is correct. It matches all of what you've
said, as well as Eckhard's observations. The TIA doesn't buffer any
previous-line hits except for the last - it doesn't care how many times you
hit it. The last one will generate a sprite at that position on the next
line, unless you hit RESP0 again in the meantime.
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