{"id":919,"date":"2026-02-07T10:19:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T10:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/?p=919"},"modified":"2026-02-07T10:19:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T10:19:22","slug":"lets-code-ms-dos-0x35-sprites-scaling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/?p=919","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s Code MS DOS 0x35: Sprites &#038; Scaling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Adventure games like Monkey Island utilized sprites that could be moved and scaled arbitrarily on the screen. How does this work on a machine that doesn&#8217;t have support hardware sprites? We will work our way from simple sprites with no transparency, to ones that are clipped, have transparency and can be scaled down arbitrarily.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Let&#039;s Code MS DOS 0x35: Sprites &amp; Scaling\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/O5Ke0vaCgb0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adventure games like Monkey Island utilized sprites that could be moved and scaled arbitrarily on the screen. How does this work on a machine that doesn&#8217;t have support hardware sprites? We will work our way from simple sprites with no transparency, to ones that are clipped, have transparency and can be scaled down arbitrarily.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[147,148,195],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":920,"href":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919\/revisions\/920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}