On Sat, 9 Jan 1999 10:41:12 -0800 (PST) petehollandjr@xxxxxxxxx (Pete Holland)
wrote:
>Hello, everyone. Thank you for the responses. I have a few more
>questions at the moment.
>
>1) The book I'm reading did not explain this: what is a kernal?
It's really just a small bit of fast and tight code (cycle-counted) written for
a sharply defined purpose. Kernel is typically used to describe a core
executive which manages cpu, memory, resources, etc. In this case, it's more of
a "graphics driver" of sorts.
>2) If letters must be drawn out by the graphics engine, what about
>numbers, like for a score display?
Everything, baby. Every single thing you see on the screen must be drawn in a
similar fashion (player-missile graphics aside, but you get very few of those,
really).
=R=
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