diff -u ./xgame.c ../Mk11/xgame.c
--- ./xgame.c	Wed Nov 18 10:53:16 1998
+++ ../Mk11/xgame.c	Wed Nov 18 10:45:57 1998
@@ -1320,6 +1320,55 @@
 
 
 
+	void
+XgameDrawSpriteArea(struct XgameWindow *win, int xcen, int ycen,
+			int srcx, int srcy, int xsize, int ysize, int spritenr) {
+	struct XgameSprite *thissprite;
+	int xorig,yorig;
+	int xmul,ymul;
+	GC *gcused;
+
+	if (win->skipdraw) return;
+	
+	thissprite=&(win->sprite[spritenr]);
+	xorig = xcen - thissprite->xcenter;
+	yorig = ycen - thissprite->ycenter;
+	xsize+= xorig;
+	ysize+= yorig;
+
+	/*** Scale. Note that begin,end are scaled instead of begin,size.
+	 *** Otherwise, tiles could not be laid seamlessly, because
+	 ***   scaled(begin+size) != scaled(begin)+scaled(size) ***/
+	xorig = (xorig*(xmul=win->xmul)) / XgameScaleFixDiv;
+	yorig = (yorig*(ymul=win->ymul)) / XgameScaleFixDiv;
+	srcx  = (srcx * xmul           ) / XgameScaleFixDiv;
+	srcy  = (srcy * ymul           ) / XgameScaleFixDiv;
+	xsize = (xsize* xmul           ) / XgameScaleFixDiv;
+	ysize = (ysize* ymul           ) / XgameScaleFixDiv;
+	xsize-= xorig;
+	ysize-= yorig;
+
+	/*** choose/init GC ***/
+	if (!thissprite->mask) {
+		gcused = &(win->tilegc);
+	} else {
+		XSetClipOrigin(win->pdisplay, win->spritegc, xorig,yorig);
+		XSetClipMask(win->pdisplay, win->spritegc, thissprite->mask);
+		gcused = &(win->spritegc);
+	}
+
+	if (win->drawtobuffer) {
+		XCopyArea(win->pdisplay, thissprite->pixmap,win->buffer,
+		          *gcused, srcx, srcy, xsize, ysize, xorig, yorig );
+		XgameAddRect(win->bufrectlist, xorig,yorig, xsize,ysize);
+		XgameAddRect(win->bgrectlist,  xorig,yorig, xsize,ysize);
+	} else if (win->background) {
+		XCopyArea(win->pdisplay, thissprite->pixmap, win->background,
+		          *gcused, srcx, srcy, xsize, ysize, xorig, yorig );
+		XgameAddBGRects(win,win->bgrectlist, xorig,yorig, xsize,ysize);
+	}
+}
+
 
 	void
 XgameDrawSprite(struct XgameWindow *win, int xcen, int ycen, int spritenr) {
diff -u ./xgame.h ../Mk11/xgame.h
--- ./xgame.h	Wed Nov 18 10:45:47 1998
+++ ../Mk11/xgame.h	Wed Nov 18 10:45:58 1998
@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@
  ***
  *** Thanks to Aaron Digulla for the original extended key support patch.
  *
+ * Patchlevel2: New function XgameDrawSpriteArea
+ * Patchlevel1: mouse offset bug fixed
  * New in 0.95:
  *   Deleted XgameClear/ShowSprite, they did not seem useful enough to 
  *       warrant the amount of duplicated code.
@@ -131,7 +133,8 @@
 #include <X11/Xlib.h>
 /* #include <X11/Xutil.h> */
 
-/* #include "xpm.h" */
+/*#include "xpm.h"*/
+
 #include <X11/xpm.h>
 
 #include "vroot.h"
@@ -547,9 +550,21 @@
 /*** drawing pixmaps ***/
 
 	void
+XgameDrawSpriteArea(struct XgameWindow *win, int xcen, int ycen,
+			int srcx, int srcy, int xsize, int ysize, int spritenr);
+	/*** Copy part of pixmap to given coords xcen,ycen, denoting the position
+	 *** where the center of the sprite should appear. Transparency is used
+	 *** when sprite has a mask. The rectangular area within the sprite given
+	 *** by (srcx, srcy)...(srcx+xsize, srcy+ysize) is copied to
+	 *** the topleft coordinates (xcen-spritexcenter, ycen-spriteycenter). The
+	 *** spritecenter coordinates are either (0,0) or equal to the hotspot
+	 *** coordinates as were found in the sprite's XPM file.
+	 ***/
+
+	void
 XgameDrawSprite(struct XgameWindow *win, int xcen,int ycen,int spritenr);
-	/*** Write pixmap at given center coords, using transparency when sprite
-	 *** has a mask.
+	/*** Equivalent to XgameDrawSpriteArea(win,xcen,ycen, 0,0,
+	 ***                                   spritexsize,spriteysize, spritenr).
 	 ***/