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From: jcfst@unix.cis.pitt.edu (John C. Fossum)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Shadow of the Beast...Dissection 101
Keywords: What makes it tick?
Message-ID: <20500@unix.cis.pitt.edu>
Date: 8 Nov 89 00:27:33 GMT
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     I just purchased Shadow of the Beast by Psygnosis. My question
posed to the board is; 'How do they do it?' (meaning how are 128
colors achieved on the screen...is it palette swapping?); the 900K
of digitized soundtrack (IFF track splicing?) or the huge animated,
well at least moving on the screen, characters? Was this done in C?
Assembler? How did they create such a huge parallax effect and no
slow down?  

-Steve Suhy