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to: JASEN BETTS
from: FERNANDO ARIEL GONT
date: 1998-03-20 03:27:00
subject: Vertical retrace / sprite

Hullo Jasen Betts, hope you are having a nice day!!
09-Mar-98 05:38:00, Jasen Betts wrote to FERNANDO ARIEL GONT
          Subject: Vertical retrace / sprite
 FA>> "saveblock" will get the x and y coordinates, and the number of
 FA>> rows and columns, and will copy this block to a buffer specified
 FA>> by the user. "restoreblock" does the opposite: it copies the
 FA>> contents of a buffer to the video memory. Note: I only use *byte*
 FA>> moves and *not* word or dword moves, because the routine is
 FA>> intended to work on any size of sprite.
 JB> you could use dwords the above cases, the extra memory overhead
 JB> Isn't much and it will go faster...
Ok, but the rotines were intended for general use.
That menas that they should work even on a 3*3 sprite...
 FA>> In the next three messages I'll post the three routines I've
 FA>> made.
 JB> They haven't arrived here. (how long were they?)
Have they, now?
 -=> Yours sincerely, Fernando Ariel Gont <=-
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