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Parameter Description
number Sprite number (1-8)
on/off Turn sprite on (1) or off (0)
foreground Sprite foreground color (1-16)
priority Priority is 0 if sprites appear in front of objects on
the screen. Priority is 1 if sprites appear in back of
objects on the screen.
x-exp Horizontal EXPansion on (1) or off (0)
y-exp Vertical EXPansion on (1) or off (0)
mode Select standard sprite (0) or multicolor sprite (1)
Unspecified parameters in subsequent sprite statements take on the
characters of the previous SPRITE statement. You may check the
characteristics of a SPRITE with the RSPRITE function.
Use the MOVSPR command to place the SPRITE on the screen. Use
SPRCOLOR to set the multicolor sprite colors. To interactively design
a sprite use SPRDEF.
EXAMPLES:
SPRITE 1,1,3
SPRITE 2,1,7,1,1,1
Turn on sprite number 1 and color it red.
Turn on sprite number 2, color it blue
make it pass behind objects on the
screen and expand it in the vertical and
horizontal directions.
SPRITE 6,1,1,0,0,1,1 Turn on SPRITE number 6, color it black.
The first 0 tells the computer to display
the sprites in front of objects on the
screen. The second 0 and the 1
following tell the C128 to expand the
sprite verticaly only. The last 1 specifies
multicolor mode. Use the SPRCOLOR
command to select the sprite's
multicolor.
SPRSAV
a
—Store sprite data from a text string variable into a sprite storage
area or vice versa
SPRSAV (origin),(destination)
This command copies a sprite image from a string variable to a
sprite storage area. It can also copy the data from the sprite storage
area into a string variable. Either the origin or the destination can be
a sprite number or a string variable but they both cannot be string
variables. If you are copying a string into a sprite, only the first 63
bytes of data are used. The rest are ignored since a sprite can only
hold 63 data bytes. See SSHAPE.
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