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echo: apogee
to: ANDREW BIELER
from: JAMES BUWALDA
date: 1996-08-19 15:05:00
subject: How the gun works

AB> Well, now that is another idea, if you have the memory you can place 
AB> an  "invisible"matrix that flickers at rates the human eye can't see 
AB> over the whole screen, when the gun closes the circut and matches the 
AB> specific flicker rate with a section of the screen it then checks to 
AB> see if any sprites are in that section. If so then the computer makes 
AB> the according hit/miss. It  would also make a sprite of a crosshair 
AB> possible. Arcade like.
yeah, but I believe monitors don't get as high a frame rate as tv's do.  
There fore I have to place less strobe frames on the screen.
PLease take this to netmail.
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