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Cameron Kaiser
spectre at floodgap.com
Sat Jun 2 17:13:56 CDT 2007
> > about 32Kb of ROM to store the code, and a couple of
> > k's RAM to
> > handle things like sprites (remember them?).
>
> Most people should. The Commie 64 had hardware
> sprites. The Apple 2s...I don't really know. Maybe
> with the addition of some krazee logic they did. Not
> as stock I don't think.
They didn't. They had shape tables, but this was software-driven.
I'm pretty sure there was a card that had a 9918A, and you could get
sprites with that, but I don't recall it being very popular (typical
software-hardware catch-22 situation).
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