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diablothe2nd · 25 August 2013, 01:46

no i'm not saying ignore them. heck i'm not even qualified nor experienced enough to say either way.

I recall from either reading the blitz manuals or the amiga hardware books that hardware sprites, even on AGA are only 4 or 8 colours (i forget which) and there is a maximum (4 OR 8? i can't remember) that the system supports.

there is, however an interesting article here on EAB about Brian The Lion and how the sprites were done, and overlaid to appear more than the colour limitations of hardware sprites of AGA.... i'll have to dig out a link

EDIT- here's the link to our resident Codetappers breakdown of it

http://www.codetapper.com/amiga/spri...rian-the-lion/

25 August 2013, 01:46	#14
diablothe2nd Registered User Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Northamptonshire, UK Age: 41 Posts: 1,236	no i'm not saying ignore them. heck i'm not even qualified nor experienced enough to say either way. I recall from either reading the blitz manuals or the amiga hardware books that hardware sprites, even on AGA are only 4 or 8 colours (i forget which) and there is a maximum (4 OR 8? i can't remember) that the system supports. there is, however an interesting article here on EAB about Brian The Lion and how the sprites were done, and overlaid to appear more than the colour limitations of hardware sprites of AGA.... i'll have to dig out a link EDIT- here's the link to our resident Codetappers breakdown of it http://www.codetapper.com/amiga/spri...rian-the-lion/ Last edited by diablothe2nd; 25 August 2013 at 01:56.