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From: john <jmn6@hotmail.com>
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Subject: animation, collision detection, backgrounds
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 1999 01:04:02 -0700
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How do I do animation with sprites. I want a character to appear to walk 
when he moves across the screen.

When i wrote a simple function to test two spheres colliding as they 
bounced around the screen the program slows down when the spheres are 
near the edge of the screen (but only if collision detection is being 
used). Also when if a higher res mode (640 x512) the screen flickered 
constantly and when the spheres collided they produced a static double 
image until the spheres collided again. What's wrong?

Also the spheres sometimes stick together if they collide whilst moving 
towards each other.

Has anyone got a simple tutorial for using the background picture 
functions (ie. words not just code)

Thanks