The vertical scrolling shoot-em-up is the furthest ahead, with most of the basic scrolling, sprite + control engine up and running. I'll try and get a snapshot put up soon.

... displays of the C64 make scrolling games VERY easy to implement ... the gfx data of a sprite.

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... only have coded the scrolling and some sprite routines, and I am ...

... would require substantial research into scrolling routines before you start looking ... else. The Master System's sprite hardware is limited (maximum of ... easier to convert a non-scrolling title like Vampire Killer from ...

... to the raster, so all sprite draws, line draws, etc are ... native support for pixel*pixel scrolling?
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That ... draw order, doing chars in sprite order rather than position order ...

... either the Zynaps or Stormlord scrolling & sprite routnes so we could ...

... either the Zynaps or Stormlord scrolling & sprite routines so we could ... capable of writing his own scrolling routines.

... either the Zynaps or Stormlord scrolling & sprite routnes so we could ... limited in some ways.
Sprite routine copy data into screen ...

... , specific hardware for sprites and scrolling, and a half decent sound ... the Sinclair marketing strategy) sprite and scrolling hardware that was difficult to ...

... cell's "sp1_update" ordered sprite list according to its plane ... sp1_cs" making up the sprite. This list is ordered ... CONS

- The move sprite function has an overhead associated ... civilization / board game types of scrolling).
- The engine is ...

... ) that its really just a sprite coded game layed out on ... angles and had multi directional scrolling. Something that not many other ...

... used a technique called line scrolling. It's not actually all ... . It's not capable of sprite and background manipulation to the ... and NeoGeo are, so line scrolling was used a fair bit ... , it's really using line scrolling and moving small groups of ...

... goes for all machines with sprite hardware.[/QUOTE]

Believe ... graphics accelleration features in hardware, scrolling and blitting seem far more ...

... new X,Y coordinates or sprite frame than to do a ... graphics accelleration features in hardware, scrolling and blitting seem far more ...

... new X,Y coordinates or sprite frame than to do a ... silicon went into providing those sprite capabilities. I think the VIC2 ... that certainly had blitting and scrolling but not sprites. Anyway, they ...

... that the CPC had hardware scrolling as well.[/QUOTE]

sprite changes ahead of the raster ... want to have these compensated sprite positions visible in order to ...

... a simple static multicolor image/sprite moving/scrolling up and down though...

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very clasic sprite (1x8):
.BYTE %01111110
drawing a sprite at new position overwrites sprite at previous position ... Star[/b] different routines for scrolling by different speed, back buffer ...

... vs the msx. For instance, scrolling games on the Spectrum tend ... 's for -- it contains the sprite code so that you don ...

... =Gwyn]Where the main character sprite looks exactly the same as ... examples of pixel scrolling with colour attributes scrolling every 8 frames.[/QUOTE ... C64 has hardware scrolling for doing the pixel scrolling. You only have ...

... (or more if you use sprite multiplexing in the border area ... modes have full hardware screen scrolling.

So the 64 ...

... (or more if you use sprite multiplexing in the border area ... modes have full hardware screen scrolling.[/quote]

That is ... the Speccy had had hardware scrolling, though unless it scrolled eight ...

Smooth scrolling all right and good key ... names I forget) dabbled with sprite routines and went on to ...

... Wolf, etc are smooth pixel scrolling whereas on the MSX1 they ... as a rapid flickering of sprite graphics that is not present ...

... does the screen grabbing / putting / scrolling. These will have to be ... deal of speed.

Scrolling is particularly scary, even for ... particular I think the SP1 sprite engine might be interesting since ...

... learning C, z88dk has a sprite engine for the spectrum that ... supplies commands like "sp1_MoveSpr(...)" (move sprite), "sp1_PrintAt(..)" (print at), etc ... that don't do any scrolling. It can do much more ... a spectrum which has no sprite support at all.
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... the tilemap/sprite rendering, yes I need per-pixel scrolling and sprites ... code out there to handle scrolling tilemaps with sprites overlayed as ...

... great for left-to-right scrolling using the RRS operator (rotate ... have something to do with sprite animations (walking left, up, down ...

... each 2 character rows of scrolling and the tiles are stored ... /> PS glad you like the sprite tutorial - hope i'll be ...

... internally breaks up a sprite into its characters and ... screen
sp1_DeleteSpr(p->sprite);
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With the sprite off screen "sp1_DeleteSpr()" is called ... () is called to start scrolling the message and d_ScrollStop() ...