Program name:           Turbo Sprites and Animation (v1)
 
Author name:            Donald L. Pavia
Address:                1488 Lahti Drive
                        Bellingham, WA 98226
Telephone Number:       none given
 
Suggested Donation:     $10 for the programs supplied on the disk.  For an 
                        additional $20, you get the commented source code for
                        the utility programs.

Description:

Turbo Sprites and Animation is one of the most interesting and practical 
animated graphics creation programs the writer has seen.  It will be useful, 
instructive and entertaining for any Turbo Pascal programmer with even a 
casual interest in learning how to create animated graphics.  It is well 
documented, liberally commented and is supplied with source coded demo 
programs that demonstrate numerous techniques for animation.  On a scale of 
10, this program is a solid 9.  

The program consists of several components which make up a complete tutorial 
and development environment:  
    
    A sprite designing utility that allows you to create sprite arrays and 
    store them in tables for later use;  
    
    A utility that allows you to load an entire screen and sprite table, then 
    freely move the sprites around the screen to design an arrangement or 
    animation pathway;  
    
    A library containing the definitions and driver routines that allow you to 
    use sprites in your own programs;  
    
    Various sprite tables and individual sprites used in the demo programs;  
    
    Eight liberally commented demo programs which show you how to achieve 
    different animation effects with sprites.  

It also includes a utility to import PC Paint screens to Turbo Pascal 
programs, and a library file of routines to save and load Turbo Pascal screens.

The program requires Turbo Pascal, an IBM (or compatible) computer, PC or MS 
DOS V2.00 (or greater), 256K bytes of RAM memory, 1 disk drive, an IBM (or 
compatible) Color Graphics Adapter, and an RGB color monitor.  The program 
will not work with either a monochrome or color composite monitor.