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- Charges (v 1·70)
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- © 1992-4 Richard G. Hallas
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- Just for interest: the latest versions of Acorn's
- desktop implement translucent solid sprite dragging,
- with alternating masked pixels in a chessboard-style
- pattern which allows you to see through the solid
- sprite to whatever's behind it. This looks really
- fantastic.
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- Remember, you saw this effect first in Charges!!
- It was implemented (and looking great) way back in
- version 1.00 in 1992, long before anyone at Acorn
- thought of it! The effect was subsequently seen in a
- (very slow) patch in Acorn User, and then as a well-
- implemented effect in Michael Rozdoba's excellent
- Desktop+. Then Acorn adopted the standard. I'm very
- pleased: I'd have thought it was far too 'cool' for
- Acorn to bother with! They've gone up in my
- estimation. But it happened here first.
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