64 Bites - #037 - Animating Characters

We've already been talking a lot about hardware sprites. They are a useful tool to draw and animate dynamic parts of your game, application or a demo.The other way of creating graphics on this computer is to use characters. Apart from letters, the default font of Commodore 64 contains a set of graphical characters.Today we will explore a way in which we can animate them.

What is this?

It's an episode of the 64 Bites - Video Tutorials for Programmers,

the series designed to teach you how to program Commodore 64 in small and easy steps.

What's inside?

• The Video - Short, Intense and Focused
• You can stream it on any device
• or download DRM-free
• Full Transcript so you can follow along.
• Source Code for everything you will see on the screen.
• Programming Exercises to do on your own.