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What's the best freeware utility for creating Low-Res (and Hi-Res too, if possible). mode EGA sprites? I've found a lot of VGA ones, but no EGA ones. Does anyone know where I can find them? Thanks.

go to the header of this page, enter to ABC, look for egavga.abc, graphics.abc, etc.

Gracias Fumador

I've always done my EGA graphics in Deluxe Paint II, then saved them to PCX and used them. I used to convert them to GIF and load them using Rich Gieldreich's GIF loader which works like a charm.

You can grab DP2 in one of my (VERY OLD) webs:

http://usuarios.lycos.es/qbsux/utils.html

Ola Nathan,

Thanks for the link, that would be a good option. I actually started making a sprite editor this afternoon, but I'm facing a bit of a dilemma: WINDOWed or non-WINDOWed sprites? Because if I make them in a Windowed environment, it won't appear the same if I don't use the Window command in the program, will it?

But this issue probably doesn't exist if I do it as you suggest.

I dunno, as far as I know the WINDOW command only accepts coordinates, not sprites. I mean, if you do change your coordinates the sprites won't show bigger or smaller, just placed somewhere else.

Anyway, why would you want to change the coordinate system? I've been coding games in QBasic/QB/fB since 1993 and I never used the WINDOW command... Not once.

It comes in handy when you're graphing functions, or using a 3D co-ordinate system, that sort of thing. But as you say, for games it probably isn't that much useful.