Subject: Road Runner sprites (was: Re: [stella] Cosmic Ark stars) From: Piero Cavina <p.cavina@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 11:05:55 -0400 |
At 18.17 10/05/97 +0200, Eckhard Stolberg wrote: >>How did they do those nice blinking background stars in "Cosmic Ark"? >OK, I cheated. I looked at the code, but it still took some experimentation >to figure it out. > >Actually the answer is right in the programming manual. It says: Uh, there were no comments on Eckhard's work... don't you think he would deserves some applause? :) Now, speaking of exotic programming techniques, here's another obscure thing... How could they put three multi-color, single-scanline-resolution, no-flickering sprites in the same vertical space in Atari's "Road Runner"? The sprites are Road Runner, Wiley Coyote and the Truck. Ciao, P. -- Archives available at http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/archives/ E-mail UNSUBSCRIBE in the body to stella-request@xxxxxxxxxxx to be removed.
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