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Message: 466
Author: andycadley
Date: 02/08/2000
Subject: Re: ?tioning the mind of a genious
"The alternative is to spend time blanking out
the entire screen, then move across the screen
copying the appropriate 8x8s (and attributes), except
when the block is air, in which case do nothing except
set the attribute. Searching for this exception would
probably add as much code as the 8x64 bytes the blank air
8x8s take up. Also it would take extra time to blank
the entire screen."
Well, that'd be an even
more wasteful way of doing things. That said, Matt's
way is a rather inefficient way of doing thigs as
well. Still, it has always been my opinion that Matt
wasn't a particularly good programmer - although he was
a fantastic games designer.
Andy
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