Yeah, you can x and/or y expand a sprite, then change it to make it look like it contains more data by cleverly drawing the sprite because 1 pixel becomes 2 pixels wide in expanded mode.
They are in the border, Only sprites, ghostbyte (a repeating byte only shown in black. It is the last byte of the chosen videobank) and background color can be displayed there.
You can't change the sprites every rasterline. Sprites are 21 pixels in height in unexpanded mode. So you can only change the sprite after displaying all 21 lines, unless you use sprite-crunching, where the limit is still several lines. Linus has an article on sprite-crunching (mind-blowingly complex).
Have read the book many times. And even played the game many times (Amiga mostly). I recall one mp3 where Gibson reads the book. It wasn't very good. Kind of rushed. Always been a huge fan though. I wonder if we will ever get the movie ;)
Holy cow. I remember reading that page in the Amiga reference manual, thinking it was utter crap and made up my own way of calculating the value (which worked, lol).
I'll definitely take a look at the guide to see if I can make something using my normal Kickassembler setup. I don't know if it's some kind of API, but sounds like fun to find out :)
the author of c64os uses turbo macro pro, so all the include files are in tmp format. there was an un-official kick-assembler port floating around, but i don't know if it's still updated.
I'm at the age where lots of friends are having babies,and this has not been my experience. They love all sorts of vegetables - beetroot, carrot, artichoke, you name it. And at least one toddler really doesn't like meat.
The comment about the shoes, stick with you ;)