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Bresenhams line on 6502


Article: 7833 of alt.hackers
From: rosemary@sauterne.cis.udel.edu (James Rosemary)
Newsgroups: alt.hackers
Subject: Bresenhams line on 6502
Date: 16 May 1995 14:41:57 GMT
Organization: University of Delaware, Newark
Lines: 6
Approved: If you insist.
Message-ID: 3padjl$9m5@louie.udel.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: sauterne.cis.udel.edu
Status: RO

ObHack:
  Implemented Bresenham's line algorithm on a 6502 using 8 bit variables
to improve speed. This limits the line length to 64 pixels, so I made
the routine recursively break the line in half if it's too big. Rounding
is very important.




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