Subj : ATARI and Spectrum are rubbish - The C64 is the king of home-comput
To   : Andreas Kohlbach
From : Janne Johansson
Date : Mon May 14 2018 10:25:20

On 2018-05-13 16:54, Andreas Kohlbach : Janne Johansson wrote:
>>>> The Atari 800 and C64 had sprites. Gee, I wonder where Commadore got
>>>> the idea for sprites? Anyway, the C64 had many improvements over the
>>>> Atari sprites give the 3+ years they had to develop them.
>>>
>>> True.
>>
>> In the end, sprites was a dead end. After amiga, there was almost no use
>> of sprites apart from the mousepointer at all, it was all done
>> differently using the GPU in a BOB-like way from 1995-ish onward.
>
> Didn't the Amiga also use sprites besides of bobs?

Sure, but they were "only" 8, even if they could stretch vertically over
the whole screen and you could actually reuse them horizontally with
some effort, but as I wrote, after amiga, almost no platform relied on
sprites anymore. If you wanted 200+ moving objects on the screen, it was
BOBs in some fashion and not sprites.

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