MINDSET Computer: Blitter Animation, part 1

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When you combine the vertical blank interrupt handler (which fires 60 times each second) with the BLITTER copy operations, very smooth; complex animation is possible on a system, on a system that would otherwise not be able to support it without the display co-processor.

I am working on a complex animation scene, modelled after the first intermission in pac-man. The code is here:
https://github.com/tschak909/mindset-examples/blob/master/pacman-cutscene/main.c



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