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- Program name: Turbo Sprites and Animation (v1)
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- Author name: Donald L. Pavia
- Address: 1488 Lahti Drive
- Bellingham, WA 98226
- Telephone Number: none given
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- Suggested Donation: $10 for the programs supplied on the disk. For an
- additional $20, you get the commented source code for
- the utility programs.
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- Description:
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- Turbo Sprites and Animation is one of the most interesting and practical
- animated graphics creation programs the writer has seen. It will be useful,
- instructive and entertaining for any Turbo Pascal programmer with even a
- casual interest in learning how to create animated graphics. It is well
- documented, liberally commented and is supplied with source coded demo
- programs that demonstrate numerous techniques for animation. On a scale of
- 10, this program is a solid 9.
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- The program consists of several components which make up a complete tutorial
- and development environment:
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- A sprite designing utility that allows you to create sprite arrays and
- store them in tables for later use;
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- A utility that allows you to load an entire screen and sprite table, then
- freely move the sprites around the screen to design an arrangement or
- animation pathway;
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- A library containing the definitions and driver routines that allow you to
- use sprites in your own programs;
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- Various sprite tables and individual sprites used in the demo programs;
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- Eight liberally commented demo programs which show you how to achieve
- different animation effects with sprites.
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- It also includes a utility to import PC Paint screens to Turbo Pascal
- programs, and a library file of routines to save and load Turbo Pascal screens.
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- The program requires Turbo Pascal, an IBM (or compatible) computer, PC or MS
- DOS V2.00 (or greater), 256K bytes of RAM memory, 1 disk drive, an IBM (or
- compatible) Color Graphics Adapter, and an RGB color monitor. The program
- will not work with either a monochrome or color composite monitor.
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