C64 Assembly Programming Part 36 Bitmap Graphics

The Commodore 64 is capable of 8 hardware sprites on screen at the same time - and they can be 2 or 4 color just like the The Atari ST has a ram based screen - we can just allocate some memory, and write data to it to get it on screen... We drew our 'Chibiko' mascot to the screen before, but this time we're going to improve the algorithm.

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• The Commodore 64 is capable of 8 hardware sprites on screen at the same time - and they can be 2 or 4 color just like the
• The Atari ST has a ram based screen - we can just allocate some memory, and write data to it to get it on screen...
• We drew our 'Chibiko' mascot to the screen before, but this time we're going to improve the algorithm.
• We took a look at the excellent mcdraw.xyz site by Zooperdan and use it to convert some
• A primary school class use black and white squares to represent the pixels that make up

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