FWIW, the Alpha 0.1 and 0.2 bB kernel uses this too, mostly because of the
pointer setup thing. However, I will probably use a kernel rewritten with
skip/switchdraw to get more on the screen, but I'm not looking forward to
the pointer setup stuff. Actually, I haven't figured out how to setup the
pointers at all yet...
>Hi there!
>
>How about...
>
> LDA #SPRITEHEIGHT
> DCP spriteOffset
> BCC FlipDraw
> LDY spriteOffset
> LDA (spritePtr),Y
>Continue
> STA GRP0
>
>That's 2/3 cycles more than skip/switchdraw, but it neither requires a
>line counter (save lotsa cycles here!) nor occupies a register.
>
>I'm currently working on a 4LK with 2LK sprites, and this seems to be by
>far the most elegant way to do that :-)
>
>Also instead of the nightmarrish sprite/pointer setup for skip/switchdraw
>it only requires a setup as simple as:
>
> LDA spriteY
> STA spriteOffset
> SET_POINTER spritePtr, spritedata
>
>Greetings,
>Manuel
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