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The Archimedes Gamemakers Manual

Copyright © APDL and Terry Blunt 2002. All Rights Reserved

The Archimedes Gamemakers Manual is © Terry Blunt and Sigma Press. This edition also © APDL. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior written consent of the Publisher nor circulated in any form, binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.

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Part 2 - Contents

• Chapter 4 - Static Graphics
  
  • 4.1 Drawn Pictures
    
  • 4.2 Sprites
    
    • 4.2.1 User Sprites
      
    • 4.2.2 Sprite Masking
      
    • 4.2.3 Sprite Control
      
    • 4.2.4 A Sprite Example
      
  • 4.3 User Defined Characters
    
  • 4.4 ECF Patterns
    
  • 4.5 Backgrounds
    
  • 4.6 Banked Screens
    
  • 4.7 Clearing Screen Areas
    
  • 4.8 Smartening Up
    
  • 4.9 Fancy Fonts
    
• Chapter 5 - Making it Move
  
  • 5.1 Objects
    
  • 5.2 Movement
    
  • 5.3 Animation
    
    • 5.3.1 Colour Changing
      
    • 5.3.2 Animating Sprites
      
  • 5.4 Collisions
    
    • 5.4.1 Coordinate Collisions
      
    • 5.4.2 Pixel Collisions
      
    • 5.4.3 Cell Collisions
      
    • 5.4.4 Pointer Collisions
      
    • 5.4.5 Look Ahead
      
  • 5.5 Scrolling
    
    • 5.5.1 Hardware Scrolling
      
    • 5.5.2 Scrolling in Software
      
    • 5.5.3 ARM Code Scrolling
      
• Chapter 6 - More Dimensions
  
  • 6.1 3D
    
    • 6.1.1 Cartoon Styles
      
    • 6.1.2 Scaling
      
    • 6.1.3 Perspective
      
    • 6.1.4 Wire Frame Drawings
      
    • 6.1.5 Hidden Lines
      
    • 6.1.6 Rotation
      
    • 6.1.7 Matrices
      
    • 6.1.8 Universal Movement and Rotation
      
  • 6.2 Sound
    
    • 6.2.1 Music
      
    • 6.2.2 More Voices
      
    • 6.2.3 Voice Generator Utility
      

  Terry Blunt