W E L C O M E  T O  C O L O U R S C R O L L 
                                      
Hi! I`m Andrew Elia, and this is my first  demo in AMOS (apart from the crap
that I threw together when I first rolled  my fingers over the keyboard!) By
the way: Silver Bytes is also me, I  use  this name as a name for demos like
the other greats like Red Sector and the others, except that they program in
assembly language (unless they`ve got their  hands on the compiler!) Anyway,
this scroller was put together in two days, excluding the titles. The titles
I programmed a few months ago for a  project  for Eastern Electricity called
"Wattville `90". This had  the  same  groovy  music  and  it  included a HAM
picture of Frank (EE`s promotional answer for Frankenstein!) and speech! Not
only that we scooped first prize at the Talk Electric Centre, in Ipswitch (a
looooong way away!) which was a  27  inch  telly  with Nicam Digital Stereo,
Fast Text and a video. All of which has  ended up in the Headmasters` study.
No rubbish, guys, this is true! AMOS has lead the way to fame, we even had a
photo in "Switch"  magazine!.  Anyway,  enough  of  that, here`s some techie
                                   info:
                                      
Colourscroll is compatible with half meggers, except you lose the tunes. You
can load Cola.ABK  and  Ramage.ABK  into  AMOS  anyway,  or even Music Mania
                               (plug, plug!).
                                      
The program was written with five AMAL strings, four for the copper, and one
for the bouncy scrolly, which is  actually  sits  in a screen only 18 pixels
                                   high.
                                      
The SHIFT UP command was used to make the  colours swirl, and all of my font
                            is in a sprite bank.
                                      
                                 Disclaimer
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You are very welcome to use my  scroller  for  your own purposes, provided I
get credited for it (or a small donation wouldn`t go amiss!) I have left the
programming as open minded as possible,  so everything is in two procedures.
(Sorry, they`re locked!). The good thing  is that you can quite happily call
the procedure and put your own text  in  to  see how the scrolly works. Have
                                    fun!
                                      
        Should you want to use the program the syntax is as follows:
                                      
Make a call to the CSSETUP procedure once to set up the nessessary screens.
                                      
          You are now free to call CSCROLL. Here`s the template :
                                      
                             CSCROLL[A$,SPLEN]
                                      
Where A$ is the scrolltext, as large  as  you want it, allowing for the size
of the variable buffer. SPLEN is the  length  of  spaces after the scroller,
                         before it repeats itself.
                                      
Should you want any completely  awesome  software  from RAMAGE SOFTWARE then
you can send me  a  stamped,  self-addressed  envelope  for  details  of the
                            following software:












                                      
                           SPLITZ image processor
                       CODER file encryption program
                 MUSIC MANIA programmable music file player
                  BGS-BUSTER track and kill the BGS virus
               PICCON convert bobs and sprites into IFF files
              MUSIC MANIA V2.0+ latest version, more features!
                 SPLITZ V2.0* mixing procedure now included
                   3 DISCS of .ABK music files, all new!
        BOOTUTILS files to execute bootblocks, rippers, installers!
                                      
                             * in the pipeline
                             + near completion
                                      
                           You can reach me at :
                                      
                           178 Carterhatch Road,
                                  Enfield,
                                 Middlesex,
                                  ENGLAND
                                  EN3 5LY
                                      
                                  See ya!