Sprite Animation Toolkit (SAT) is a computer game programming library created by Lysator

Lysator

Lysator is an academic computer club at Linköping University, Sweden with almost 600 members. It is an independent non-profit society, separate from the students' union and the faculties of the university.- History :...

 for the Apple Macintosh platform which was popular during the late 1990s, in particular for shareware

Shareware

The term shareware is a proprietary software that is provided to users without payment on a trial basis and is often limited by any combination of functionality, availability, or convenience. Shareware is often offered as a download from an Internet website or as a compact disc included with a...

 games. SAT can be used with Think Pascal, Think C

THINK C

THINK C was an extension of ANSI C for Mac OS developed by THINK Technologies; although named Lightspeed C in the original mid-1986 release, it was later renamed THINK C. THINK Technologies was later acquired by Symantec Corporation and the product continued to be developed by the original author,...

 or CodeWarrior

CodeWarrior

CodeWarrior is an integrated development environment for the creation of software that runs on a number of embedded systems. Prior to the acquisition of the product by Freescale Semiconductor, versions existed for Macintosh, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Solaris, PlayStation 2, Nintendo GameCube,...

 in the Pascal

Pascal (programming language)

Pascal is an influential imperative and procedural programming language, designed in 1968/9 and published in 1970 by Niklaus Wirth as a small and efficient language intended to encourage good programming practices using structured programming and data structuring.A derivative known as Object Pascal...

 or C

C (programming language)

C is a general-purpose computer programming language developed between 1969 and 1973 by Dennis Ritchie at the Bell Telephone Laboratories for use with the Unix operating system....

 programming languages. Several shareware games used SAT, including Asterax

Asterax

Asterax is a Macintosh adaptation of the classic shoot 'em up Asteroids, unique for its addition of a monetary element that can be used to purchase persistent power-ups and score bonuses...

, Bert, Escape Velocity, Harry the Handsome Executive

Harry the Handsome Executive

Harry the Handsome Executive is "anti-productivity software" sold by Ambrosia Software. It was originally published by Mixed Metaphor Software.-Overview:...

, Space Debris and Star Chaos. SAT was written by Ingemar Ragnemalm

Ingemar Ragnemalm

Ingemar Ragnemalm is a computer programmer, best known for writing the Sprite Animation Toolkit and several games for the Apple Macintosh during the 1990s, including Bert and Solitaire House. Current projects include the development system Lightweight IDE and Sprite Animation Toolkit version...

, and a native Mac OS X

Mac OS X

Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems...

 version has been released as an alpha

Alpha

Alpha is the first letter of the Greek alphabet. Alpha or ALPHA may also refer to:-Science:*Alpha , the highest ranking individuals in a community of social animals...

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External links

• Sprite Animation Toolkit home page