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W E L C O M E T O C O L O U R S C R O L L
Hi! I`m Andrew Elia, and this is my first demo in AMOS (apart from the crap
that I threw together when I first rolled my fingers over the keyboard!) By
the way: Silver Bytes is also me, I use this name as a name for demos like
the other greats like Red Sector and the others, except that they program in
assembly language (unless they`ve got their hands on the compiler!) Anyway,
this scroller was put together in two days, excluding the titles. The titles
I programmed a few months ago for a project for Eastern Electricity called
"Wattville `90". This had the same groovy music and it included a HAM
picture of Frank (EE`s promotional answer for Frankenstein!) and speech! Not
only that we scooped first prize at the Talk Electric Centre, in Ipswitch (a
looooong way away!) which was a 27 inch telly with Nicam Digital Stereo,
Fast Text and a video. All of which has ended up in the Headmasters` study.
No rubbish, guys, this is true! AMOS has lead the way to fame, we even had a
photo in "Switch" magazine!. Anyway, enough of that, here`s some techie
info:
Colourscroll is compatible with half meggers, except you lose the tunes. You
can load Cola.ABK and Ramage.ABK into AMOS anyway, or even Music Mania
(plug, plug!).
The program was written with five AMAL strings, four for the copper, and one
for the bouncy scrolly, which is actually sits in a screen only 18 pixels
high.
The SHIFT UP command was used to make the colours swirl, and all of my font
is in a sprite bank.
Disclaimer
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You are very welcome to use my scroller for your own purposes, provided I
get credited for it (or a small donation wouldn`t go amiss!) I have left the
programming as open minded as possible, so everything is in two procedures.
(Sorry, they`re locked!). The good thing is that you can quite happily call
the procedure and put your own text in to see how the scrolly works. Have
fun!
Should you want to use the program the syntax is as follows:
Make a call to the CSSETUP procedure once to set up the nessessary screens.
You are now free to call CSCROLL. Here`s the template :
CSCROLL[A$,SPLEN]
Where A$ is the scrolltext, as large as you want it, allowing for the size
of the variable buffer. SPLEN is the length of spaces after the scroller,
before it repeats itself.
Should you want any completely awesome software from RAMAGE SOFTWARE then
you can send me a stamped, self-addressed envelope for details of the
following software:
SPLITZ image processor
CODER file encryption program
MUSIC MANIA programmable music file player
BGS-BUSTER track and kill the BGS virus
PICCON convert bobs and sprites into IFF files
MUSIC MANIA V2.0+ latest version, more features!
SPLITZ V2.0* mixing procedure now included
3 DISCS of .ABK music files, all new!
BOOTUTILS files to execute bootblocks, rippers, installers!
* in the pipeline
+ near completion
You can reach me at :
178 Carterhatch Road,
Enfield,
Middlesex,
ENGLAND
EN3 5LY
See ya!