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The garfield is quite impressive for a kid, I suspect most people would have just drawn it in paint program, and bload'ed it off disk to the second graphics pag
by StillBored 6y ago
The garfield is quite impressive for a kid, I suspect most people would have just drawn it in paint program, and bload'ed it off disk to the second graphics page, or similar trick to avoid manually computing all the vector points.
That said, I guess it comes from looking at games like KQ where (presumably to save disk space) they draw a vector outline and then flood fill the areas to create scenes.
- jhbadger 6y agoA lot of Apple ][ software (including from Sierra, the publishers of KQ) used a package called "The Graphics Magician" for the graphics. The Graphics Magician stored graphics as a series of vector lines and fills, leading to the classic "picture drawing itself" nature of a lot of Apple ][ adventure games. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_Magician https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_Magician