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From: adh@well.UUCP (Allen D. Hastings)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Sprites
Message-ID: <4170@well.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 8-Oct-87 05:49:19 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct  8 05:49:19 1987
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Summary: It's intentional...


    The reason that the new ShowANIM blanks the mouse cursor is not overscan
or any DMA issue but simply to allow video recording of the animation being
played.  Old versions of ShowANIM required one to use preferences to change
the pointer into something that can be hidden in the corner if you wanted
to properly record the animation (it wouldn't do to have an arrow obscuring
your unicycles), so Gary Bonham (the author of ShowANIM) changed it to
automatically blank the pointer while playing.  This shouldn't cause too
many problems since the program is written for speed and is not intended to
multitask...
    - Allen Hastings