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===== Sprite Mirror ====
Sometimes 16Kb are not enough to contain all the frames of your animations. A common trick used by many games, such as Impossible Mission, is to mirror sprites horizontally at runtime so that only the frames for the main character facing one direction must be stored at any time. This is a simple routine in Kick Assembler that flips a sprite horizontally. If source and destination sprites are the same, as it's often the case, initialization code can be simplified.
  
<code>
//===========================================================================
//Flips a sprite horizontally - by Antonio Savona
//===========================================================================

//initialization
			ldy #<source_sprite
			sty mirror_sprite.src1 + 1
			iny 
			sty mirror_sprite.src2 + 1
			iny
			sty mirror_sprite.src3 + 1
				
			ldy #<destination_sprite
			sty mirror_sprite.dst1 + 1
			iny 
			sty mirror_sprite.dst2 + 1
			iny
			sty mirror_sprite.dst3 + 1

			ldy #>source_sprite
			sty mirror_sprite.src1 + 2
			sty mirror_sprite.src2 + 2
			sty mirror_sprite.src3 + 2

			ldy #>destination_sprite

			sty mirror_sprite.dst1 + 2
			sty mirror_sprite.dst2 + 2
			sty mirror_sprite.dst3 + 2

			jsr mirror_sprite
			...

	mirror_sprite:
	{				
			ldx #$3c //bottom left byte offset
	!:		
						
		src1:	ldy $e000,x
			lda sprmir,y
		src3:	ldy $e002,x	
		dst3:	sta $e002,x
			lda sprmir,y
		dst1:	sta $e000,x
	
		src2:	ldy $e001,x
			lda sprmir,y
		dst2:	sta $e001,x
			
			txa
			axs #$03 //dex * 3. We save 2 cycles.
				
			bpl !-

			rts

.align $100
// The following table is for multicolor sprites. Changes for hires sprites are trivial.
sprmir:
.fill 256, [[i & %00000011] << 6] | [[i & %00001100] << 2] | [[i & %00110000] >> 2] | [[i & %11000000] >> 6]


	}
</code>