MESSAGE SCROLLER 2

by Dan Nielson

from Your Sinclair #33 (September 1988)

[files MSCROLL2.*]



Remember that old Message Scroller routine printed way, way, way, way

back in issue 30? Well, Dan Nielson (as in Bridgette - wahay! Fnar!),

from the tongue-twistingly named Tornskadavenget (excuse me while I

unknot my tongue), has sent in an updated version of the program which

allows you to scroll letters up to four times wider than normal text.

And why not?



Method



This is pretty simple to start up and get working. All you do is type in

the 19 lines of hexadecimal with the hex loader (see Circles), and then

save the chunk of code with: SAVE "name" CODE 23296,160. Or, alternat-

ively, you can type in the Basic controller program and utilise the save

option on that. Nuff said?



Basic Controller



This smallish BASIC program helps you establish scrolling messages. It

contains the variables all you programming bods could ever need. To save

it type: SAVE "name" LINE 1 and it will auto-run when you load it next.