Re:Let Chris Crawford teach you to program Atari's 8-bit com...
by duskwuff on Monday April 25, 2016 @10:47PM
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> The 2600 had sprites, but they had limitations.
Calling them "sprites" is perhaps a bit of an exaggeration. They were colored boxes. :) Turning them into any sort of recognizable graphics was required developers to "race the beam" to update registers constantly to render more objects per line than the hardware directly supported.
Calling them "sprites" is perhaps a bit of an exaggeration. They were colored boxes. :) Turning them into any sort of recognizable graphics was required developers to "race the beam" to update registers constantly to render more objects per line than the hardware directly supported.