Amiga has buildin hardware Sprites.
Sprites are small GFX elements which are drawn by the hardware
on a position on the Screen and which can easily be moved.
The are typically be use for Mousepointer Players, Bullets, Enemies...Amiga hardware has 8 Sprite channels.
Each channel could display one or more sprite on the screen. Amiga Sprites normally have 4 colors (transparent plus 3 colors)
2 Sprites could be attached to use 16 colors (transparent plus 15)
But attaching Sprites made you loose a Channel. SAGA Amiga chipset supports a new mode which allows each Sprite to have 16 colors without loosing any to attaching. Here is an Example of a 16 color Spaceship Sprite using this feature. To enable the Newmode, you have 1st to set the "SAGA Mode" bit in FMODE Register COPPER
dc.w $01fc,$001C Then you can switch each Sprite into the 16color mode by Setting Bit(0) of the 1st Sprite Command Word
Player1:
dc.l $60600000,$00000001
dc.l $6c000000,$00000000 dc.l $00000000,$00000000,$00000000,$00000000
dc.l $00000000,$00000000,$00000000,$c01e0000
dc.l $00140000,$00000000,$40060000,$f76b0000
dc.l $67460000,$65330000,$00030000,$f88f8000
dc.l $008b0000,$38738000,$00038000,$7707c000
dc.l $25750000,$1a898000,$00018000,$0573c000
dc.l $2e1a0000,$10040000,$00000000,$1de9e000
dc.l $18230000,$00c1c000,$21000000,$7fbfe000
dc.l $30988000,$47050000,$00000000,$eaefc000
dc.l $41000000,$02000000,$00000000,$f59d8000
dc.l $00200000,$00200000,$00000000,$c7c00000
dc.l $00000000,$00000000,$00000000,$00000000
Happy Hacking!
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