05-15-2010, 07:28 AM
Hi Compiuter! Welcome!
For the record, note that Fourspriter version 1 is already available for the compiler. It's up and it works - at this point, version three is about speed improvements, since the original is a little inefficient in the way it works. I worked out that with speed improvements, there could be a real frame rate improvement.
Boriel - I absolutely support a generic sprite library system. That would be beyond awesome. I was looking at the Sprite Library for C, and it's very embedded stuff, that; requiring IM mode 2 and quite a lot of memory in full use. However, it's possible to cut down the amount of memory used for buffers and back-screens by reducing effective screen area. I'm not quite sure how all that could work in ZX BASIC as it stands, which doesn't really have the interface at the moment.
For the record, note that Fourspriter version 1 is already available for the compiler. It's up and it works - at this point, version three is about speed improvements, since the original is a little inefficient in the way it works. I worked out that with speed improvements, there could be a real frame rate improvement.
Boriel - I absolutely support a generic sprite library system. That would be beyond awesome. I was looking at the Sprite Library for C, and it's very embedded stuff, that; requiring IM mode 2 and quite a lot of memory in full use. However, it's possible to cut down the amount of memory used for buffers and back-screens by reducing effective screen area. I'm not quite sure how all that could work in ZX BASIC as it stands, which doesn't really have the interface at the moment.