User blog:SlackerPrime/Per-Pixel Text Scroller pt. 0

"ayy slacker' is doing another tutorial let's hope he finishes it this time"

You know how old C64 or Amiga demos would have these really long messages scroll by on one line, one pixel at a time, so you had to really concentrate to read all of it and remember what it said? In essence, that's what we're making; except this message will be 16 characters or less. I'll be walking you guys through how to make one of these in a series of blog posts aimed at the more skilled users among us.

But before we start, here's the intro post.

For starters, here's an example program for what a more advanced one of these is like.



I apologize for having to use 4 SPRITE PAGES but that's just how this turned out. Again, this is an advanced example. You won't be making something exactly like this until this tut's "Advanced Lesson" (you'll know when you get there). I also want to apologise for the way some of this is written. I've done some tweaks here and there so this program isn't going to be exactly how the tutorial is. Blah blah blah. I also do some particularly weird things here and there, and none of this is really optimized.

You get the idea. Now, onto lesson 1!