Re: A83: Penguins

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Subject: Re: A83: Penguins
From: "Trey Jazz" <joemama@minot.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 11:34:06 -0500
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the scrolling is very easy. you just di, move the sprite and replace the
background under it after youre done with each pixel it moves then ei when
its been scrolled all the way.

>But on the other hand, most of the stuff in penguins is uninteresting, like
>level loading, which Bill probably spent the most of the time coding. The
main
>thing about penguins would be the smooth scrolling, but I think that
actually
>knowing that it can be done proves that it isn't that hard to do yourself.
I
>mean, there are no tricky video chips in the ti-83, everything's just
banging
>on that boring old bitmapped 96*64 monochrome lcd driver! Running penguins
>proves that the 6Mz system is capable of doing smooth scrolling in a
>reasonable speed - you don't have to disassemble anything at all. (But I
guess
>that's just me, then... =))
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>Linus
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>On 28-Jun-98, Jimmy wrote:
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>>  Does anyody have the source for penguins?  I would like to see how
>>Bill did most of it.
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>>Jimmy
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