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From: koreth@ssyx.ucsc.edu (Steven Grimm)
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Subject: Re: Design your own character generator & titling system
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Date: 15 Dec 88 09:18:10 GMT
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In article <18338@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> mwm@eris.berkeley.edu (Mike (I'll think of something yet) Meyer) writes:
>However, what I don't have is a nice, simple system for generating
>characters that do something interesting - scroll upwards on the
>screen, or across the crawl space, or appear slowly in fixed
>positions, or other methods of making them appear.

My final project for a computer graphics class was a receding text
display a la the "Star Wars" title sequence.  I wrote it on an Atari
ST.  It works pretty well, though since an 8MHz 68000 isn't exactly
a speed demon, the fonts are pretty simple.  My system allows for
other special effects with simple modifications to the program; I
toyed around with having the text move across the surface of a
sphere, for example, which looked pretty neat.  If anyone's interested,
I can E-Mail the source code; it's mostly in C, with a smidgeon of
assembly language in the time-critical spots.

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