29. If your soo smart how did Herve kick your ass at programing in 1985? And what's your problem with clipping routines?
In 1985 I was into video games and hackers demos on Atari ST. There was a competition going on between me and Herve and he always had the upper hand, ggggghhhh
Whatever I was coming up with, he always was one step further. My explanation on it is he was older than me (one year) and that's what made the difference...lol
Cliping is a bit technical. On older computers, you had to display the sprites yourself, in assembly langage and one of the key feature is cliping. That's where you want to display only a part of your sprite on the screen, the other part being outside of it. The trick is to avoid displaying the part that is outside of the screen, which can be difficult when the screen structure are entrelaced, without compromising with the speed. I always had problems with that, ie small pixels appearing where they shouldn't and it bacame a recuring joke between us... I think I still have one working one a backup CD somewhere, just in case I'd have to do that again