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Sprite Scroll
Category Glossary/Demos Programming/Assembly Programming/General Topic Sprite Scroll is a textscroller which doesn't use the hardware scrolling registers, instead produces this effect by performing cycles of background restoring and graphics overlapping – mostly in bitmap environment, but possibly in screen memory too – sometimes with the addon of an alteration of the letters themselves. Clearly, the 'sprite' term refers to the specific definition of it for the 264 systems (see Sprite), as the moving text may be described as an application of the softsprite's programming. Examples: Part 5 of First Demo (TLC), it's now time to read a long story from behind my nickname's logo, are you ready for this? Faster than the F40 portrayed on its own bitmap to be overlapped, here's the 3 chars tall scrolltext in Turbo Outrun Music Box. Over a Mandelbrot Zoomer, a bitmap scroller can shine, as in the last part of Perfect Visions 2. Oh my, there's a vacuum cleaner device in Terminal Obsession part 3, and it's deforming my letters! Keywords sprite,scrolling,scroll,text, See Also Sprite