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From: rick@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Eric Ruck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Graphics anybody?
Message-ID: <4462@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>
Date: 12 Mar 90 04:13:39 GMT
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Reply-To: rick@jhunix.UUCP (Eric Ruck)
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In article <1111.25f63c10@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu> tmwhitehead@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu writes:
>I'm trying to write some arcade-quality graphics and sound routines on my ST. 
>Are there any GOOD books that talk about how to do this?  I mean, how do people
>write things like Dungeon Master if there is no information on how to do this?
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>
>-- 
>	       ____
>                /  _   _/  _/        Todd Whitehead
>               / /_/ /_/ /_/        Miami University
>                                      Oxford, Ohio
>	     If it looks like I said it, I probably did...


The Atari ST is a pretty straighforward, sort of standard machine, which is
probably why it has the power and following that it does.  Anyway, on
this account you should check out general computer graphics texts--they
have a number of quite inventive things to speed graphics to "arcade"
quality.  You might also try a trip to the local arcade--sometimes it's
interesting to sit around and try to figure out how some of the animation
is done.

Eric