Re: [stella] New scrolling text cart available

[Eckhard Stolberg <Eckhard_Stolberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 23:14 22.06.99 -0500, you wrote:
>	Would this be better in a 6-digit format as opposed to a 4-digit format?
>I don't think it'd make that much of a difference, but I'd actually like to
>know your opinion on the matter.

In a previous post you said, that you don't mind some competition,
so I gave this a try myself. Here are two scrolling text demos with
a six sprite display, so that you can see for yourself if it makes much
of a difference to you.

SCRLBAR2.BIN uses single scanline resolution and can hold 3045
characters in this form. (3041 on the Supercharger)

Since this was a bit hard to read on a real VCS, SCRLBAR4.BIN does
double scanline resolution and can hold 3004 characters. (3000 on the SC)

Both programs provide an ASCII font with characters from $20 to $7e.
The text can be added as simple ASCII text to the source code file.
The characters are 7 (double)scanlines high and can be up to 8 pixels
wide. The scrolling works with ASL/ROLs as Kurt described it, so I
hope he isn't disapointed about my programming skills as well. ;-)


Ciao, Eckhard Stolberg

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