Creating an old school amiga demo bitmap scroll in Python 3 and pygame 2
Back in the old days (1980:s) I did some demo coding on first the commodore 64 and later on an Amiga 500. I wouldn't say I was very good at it but I did manage to make some simple demos One feature that was a "must have" in all Amiga demos was a "sprite scroller". A sprite scroller displays a moving, e g scrolling, text on the screen. But not with the standard font, it must have a special and very cool looking font which was often made in a paint program like Deluxe paint. The bitmap image was then cropped to the characters and displayed in the scroll. Now, when I try to make my kids interested in coding, I was talking to them about text scrolls. It ended up with me trying to create a "sprite scroller" in Python. Here is a screenshot of the result If I recall correctly the way it was done on an Amiga was that I (or a friend) created a font bitmap containing all the characters needed for displaying the text message. The bitmap was then cropped into the...