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From: jstich@pro-avalon.cts.com (Jonah Stich)
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Subject: IIgs Animation
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Date: 6 Jun 89 22:56:07 GMT
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I'm programming (attempting to at least) my IIgs in assembly, and was
wondering if anybody could tell me how to do good animation. I've read Leo J.
Scanlon's section (in his book _Apple IIgs Assembly Language Programming_) but
the routines he presents are *SLOW*. I'm looking for something that gets
somewhat closer to the animation used in games.

I've also perused the Sample Code from APDA dealing with animation, but in
that example, the shapes had to be coded into the program. For more
sophistocated animation, with 25+ shapes, typing them all in in hex could get
quite irksome!

I've thought that the best way to approach the problem would be to load a
picture into memory (created with any paint program) and then copy the figures
to the screen. Am I totally barking up the wrong tree here?

Any help you could give would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Jonah

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