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- From: jxp@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Joe Potter)
- Newsgroups: alt.sys.amiga.demos
- Subject: Re: Phenomena egos??
- Message-ID: <Bxt60A.HGt@dcs.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 12:14:34 GMT
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- > mknip@niksula.hut.fi (Mats Anders Knip) writes:
- > >(For those who didn't know it, using 8 sprites disables a word from
- > >each side of the screen. Time used by the copper to update the
- > >pointers, I guess. This is the area that can be eliminated)
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- That'll be the word to fetch the sprite data. That's a DMA access
- normally, but you can do it at any point before the sprite is displayed with the
- copper, allowing you sprites on an overscan screen. More next post...
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- Joe.
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