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at67
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Sprites

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Here's a video of the new sprite routines I have been working on for ROMvX0:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9XdTe4zZ9w

There is more work that needs to be done in reducing sprite flicker, (especially as sprites approach the top of the screen), and a double buffered rendering mode needs to be added for 64K Gigatron's, (which will eliminate sprite flicker and glitches completely).

There's detailed info in the video's description.
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Very good work, an incredible performance, I love it.
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This is fantastic! I'm looking forward to tinkering with these new sprite routines :-)
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Cheers guys!

Here's an updated video of where I am at, it uses a rather sneaky cheat of extending VBlank by an extra 20 scanlines to allow most of the sprites to be redrawn before active video display, (as well as sorting by ascending Y), thus almost completely eliminating flicker and glitches.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TVFWlMzO3k
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Another update, I have added Bullets; 4x4 user definable patterns that use XOR to draw and restore, (all the usual caveats apply when XOR drawing).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mT-jkaNwsbM
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How should I compile ROMvX0, is there any one that has been compiled?
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denjhang wrote: 04 May 2021, 16:21 How should I compile ROMvX0, is there any one that has been compiled?
I haven't released it yet unfortunately, I should have by now, but work has taken up 90% of my time...I'll do my best to get it dropped soon, but no promises.
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Sprites with split screen scrolling:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xv5civaoGOM
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