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From: aaron@stat.tamu.edu (Aaron Hightower)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Sprites on the 3000.
Message-ID: <16193@helios.TAMU.EDU>
Date: 13 May 91 21:47:14 GMT
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I have been having some problems with sprites on my Amiga 3000.  I had
previously discovered that overscan steals DMA from the sprites and thus
you could not use some of the last sprites.  This I considered to be okay
since overscan was not in my opinion a standard mode of operation.  
However, I have recently not been able to get sprite 7 to come up on a
lo-resolution screen..AT ALL!  IE I have no overscan and a lo-res screen
and sprite 7 does not appear.  If I switch to HIRES or even HIRES interlace,
sprite 7 magically comes to the screen.

These are normal every day hardware sprites...
*WHY* don't they work on a LORES, but they *DO* on a HIRES?

I feel very strange about this - earlier I found that you can't open the
topaz font unless you use "topaz.font" as the name instead of "Topaz.font".
Just one piece of code for(;;) {tolower(c)}...  Man...

Sincerely,
  depressed

I don't expect to find a way to get this to work, but if someone has a
suggestion, I would sure like to hear it via mail.  (Can't believe the
system has stolen my sprites!)

ARGHHHHHHHH! :-)