Masks?

What is the best way to animate sprites... without using keyboard characters?!

My friend along time ago use to use a XOR mask... each character was stored in afile... that looekd like

0 0 1 0 0
0 1 0 1 0
0 1 0 1 0
0 0 1 0 0

where each 1 would be the color that was read, and inputed with PSET.

Anyone hird of this method?

You write them to a file, then read them into an array
Then you test each byte, if its a zero, dont draw it, else, pset it

Ohhh ya its all coming back to me, thank you!
..I just thought there was something elsem ore to it... hmmm... isent psetting the values every time a slow process?

What's really slow is testing it for zero, not pset
HOwever, u can speed things up further by using poke
'Example
DEF SEG = &HA000
FOR I& = 0 TO 65535
POKE I&,INT(RND*255)
NEXT
DEF SEG

This is still very slow, try using ASM codes

FYI, indeed u need to pset every bit, if u need to use MASK
Otherwise, you could just move them in blocks to the destination

You could use REP MOVSD in ASM codes to move them
quickly