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Many Sprites

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How many sprites does the Commander X16 have?  Let's find out, shall we!




 




Written in Prog8.  Source code is here: https://github.com/irmen/prog8/blob/master/examples/cx16/bobs.p8



updated the 'sprite' image and changed the pattern a bit to bea  more pleasing animation


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Try it online! Try It Now!
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I got to 1600+ sprites going - I couldn't watch after 10 as it made me kind of queasy. I wonder what the upper limit actual is.
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Re: Many Sprites

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Spoiler alert.



(there is no upper limit, eventually the counter will wrap around to zero I guess if you're patient enough. It's all an optical trick.)
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Optical delusions?
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It is heavily inspired by the classic Dragons Megademo "infinite bobs" trick [yt]https://youtu.be/3NhQGdXlkOE?t=1404[/yt]
It uses bitmap mode with a bunch of back buffers that it cycles.
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