Magicore Anomala is powered largely by the Amiga's blitter, allowing me to quickly clear the screen and draw hundreds of objects every frame at a full 60fps. It runs in parallel with the CPU and excels at copying or manipulating large blocks of data. But the blitter goes above and beyond the functionality of simply hauling bits around. You can shift, mask, and logically combine up to three independent sources anywhere in shared memory. Today I'll show you how Magicore uses the copper and blit...
