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From: rcook@eagle.wesleyan.edu (ME:MINT.INIT)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Who cares about sync? (was Re: Animation)
Message-ID: <1991Feb11.162713.38783@eagle.wesleyan.edu>
Date: 11 Feb 91 21:27:13 GMT
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In article <27B6FAE5.14450@ics.uci.edu>, pkraus@bonnie.ics.uci.edu (Pamela Joy Kraus) writes:
> In article <1991Feb11.142307.38779@eagle.wesleyan.edu> rcook@eagle.wesleyan.edu (ME:MINT.INIT) writes:
> 
>>
>>If only the Mac had sprites like a Nintendo...
>>
>  Better: sprites like a Lynx (no 8x8 size limit, no 8-per-scanline limit)
> Nintendo-style sprites would be cool for reducing basic mouse cursor overhead,
> though.
> 
> I doubt you'll ever see a game like Colony or Falcon on Nintendo.

Indeed.  I am well aware of the limitations of my little Japanese wonder that
lives under the TV.  I was just making the point that you don't need to be too
much of a computer to do sprites.

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Randall Cook
rcook@eagle.wesleyan.edu
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