Let a program say what part of a sprite collides
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`SPRHIT n, kind [,x1, y1, x2, y2]` gives a sprite a collision shape: a box, a
circle inscribed in it, or a capsule. `RSPHIT(n, f)` reads it back in SPRHIT's
own argument order, the way RSPRITE and RSPPOS already do, and needs no device
because it answers from interpreter state.

The rectangle is two corners measured from the sprite's top-left, in device
pixels -- the same `x1, y1, x2, y2` that `BOX` and `SSHAPE` take. A dialect with
two spellings for a rectangle is one nobody can write from memory. Omit it and
the shape fits whatever the picture turned out to be, which is what a sprite
loaded from a file needs: `SPRSAV "ship.png", 1` takes the image's own size and
the program never learns what that was.

**A sprite nobody has shaped collides with its whole frame, expansion bits
included, exactly as before.** That is a promise rather than a convenience, and
it has its own test: the same two sprites in the same two places, once with no
SPRHIT and once with a four-pixel box, reporting a collision and then not.

Named SPRHIT rather than SPRSHAPE because "shape" already means "a region SSHAPE
saved" in this dialect, in this very chapter -- `SPRSAV A$, 1` takes one -- and a
reader who typed `SPRSHAPE A$, 1` would have had every reason to. Both names, and
RSPHIT, were grepped against every label in docs/, examples/ and both corpora
first: a bare word is a label here, so a verb and a label share one namespace and
taking a name a checked-in listing already uses would break it silently.

`SPRHIT n, 0` takes a sprite out of collision while leaving it on the screen --
the ghost, the flashing invulnerable player, the pickup already taken. Hiding it
with `SPRITE n, 0` stops it colliding too, and is what you want when it should
not be seen either.

The circle answers the complaint chapter 8 already ships a figure of. That figure
shows two discs whose *boxes* touch at a corner while the artwork is nowhere
near, and `BUMP(1)` reporting a collision; two `SPRHIT n, 2` and it stops. The
test asserts both halves so the figure's caption stays true.

`tests/verbs_table.c` caught RSPHIT filed after RSPPOS rather than before it,
which is the sorted-table test doing exactly the job it exists for.

Docs: a new section in chapter 8, rows in the verb and function references in
alphabetical order, and chapter 13's "collision is by bounding box" becomes
"collision is by shape" with the addition named. 111 with akgl, 110 without, and
the artwork breakout still runs clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01EwxGB6TdoVvZ11KQQME9cL
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@@ -172,7 +172,12 @@ interpreter's error code, which bears no relation to a Commodore error number. P
cannot hold a zero byte. It also takes an **image file path**, which a C128 cannot.
- **A sprite loaded from a file keeps the image's own size**, not 24 by 21.
- **`MOVSPR`'s speed unit is a choice.** The manual does not say what a unit is worth.
- **Collision is by bounding box**, not by pixel, and only type 1 exists.
- **Collision is by shape**, not by pixel. A sprite nobody has shaped collides with its
whole frame, expansion bits included, which is what a bounding box means here; `SPRHIT`
narrows that to a box, a circle or a capsule. None of them is pixel-exact.
- **`SPRHIT` and `RSPHIT` are an addition.** BASIC 7.0 has `COLLISION` and `BUMP` and
nothing else, and nothing about them changes an existing program.
- **Only collision type 1 exists.** Types 2 and 3 are refused by name.
- **Priority and multicolour are recorded but not drawn.**
- **`SPRDEF` is out of scope.**