Macintosh Game Animation 1985
Macintosh Game Animation is a 1985 programming book by Ron Person, published by Osborne McGraw-Hill, Berkeley, California (ISBN 0-07-881127-9; copyright McGraw-Hill, Inc.).[1] The Library of Congress record gives its extent as xi, 254 pages, LCCN 85-227955, call number QA76.8.M3 P48 1985.[2] The scan here is 260 PDF pages including the covers.
The book teaches animation in Microsoft BASIC 2.0 or later, for a 128K or 512K Macintosh with one or two disk drives. It covers picture animation with the ROM drawing routines, image animation, MacPaint artwork, scrolling backgrounds, collision detection and special effects, and includes four utilities: Pattern Maker, Cursor Maker, a MacPaint-to-BASIC converter and Animation Maker. Appendices repeat the techniques in Apple's Macintosh BASIC and in Macintosh Pascal.[3]
Contents
[edit | edit source]Page numbers as printed in the table of contents.[4]
| Part | Title | Page |
|---|---|---|
| Introduction | ix | |
| 1 | An Animation Primer | 1 |
| 2 | Programming Style | 11 |
| 3 | Macintosh ROM Routines and Picture Animation | 19 |
| 4 | Image Animation | 39 |
| 5 | MacPaint | 55 |
| 6 | Background Animation | 75 |
| 7 | Collision Detection and Identification | 93 |
| 8 | Program Presentation and Control | 111 |
| 9 | Special Effects | 143 |
| 10 | Developing Your Program | 169 |
| 11 | Demonstration Programs | 177 |
| A | Animation Toolkit | 197 |
| B | MacBASIC Animation | 227 |
| C | MacPascal Animation | 237 |
| D | Additional Sources | 245 |
| Index | 247 |
It is a programming book and contains no hardware or service information. Apple's service manuals are in Category:Apple Service Source.
Related titles
[edit | edit source]- Macintosh Graphics And Sound 1986, also Osborne McGraw-Hill and also Microsoft BASIC.
- Black Art of Macintosh Game Programming 1996, Macintosh Game Programming Techniques 1996 and Macintosh Program Factory 1985 link here.
Download: Macintosh_Game_Animation_1985.pdf
References
[edit | edit source]- ↑ Title page and copyright page of the scan (PDF pp. 3-4): publisher, copyright 1985 McGraw-Hill, Inc., ISBN 0-07-881127-9, technical editor Paul Hoffman.
- ↑ Macintosh game animation (OL2647820M), Open Library, from Library of Congress MARC data—link(accessed 2026-09-30)
- ↑ Introduction, pp. ix-xi (PDF pp. 8-10).
- ↑ Table of contents (PDF pp. 6-7).