In fact, Polka! is a great tool for me too, it helped me a lot in the development of Saimazoom (LOTS of tile design for that one). Anyway, I'm waiting for a more complete program with more features (*cough* Polka v2 *cough*)

yes yes yes yes yes buncha impatient frogs! YES!

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Quote: You have really only 1 color per line, instead of 2... You are right in this point: I get a new restriction (2 colors per 2 bytes instead of 2 colors per byte), but I get a smooth horizontal scroll in return... it is all about a balance of what you lose and what you get...

So you really created a pixel scroll? Nice!!!! For 4 pixel scrolls you can still use 2 colours a row... Just make sure the 4 pixels that bound to the background have the same colour, the 4 pixels that bound to a neighbouring tile may use 2 colours.

As for the colour glitches, I plan to have the screen scroll at least 2x4pixels per scroll command. So basically the uneven (glitched) screen would be visible for such a short time the human eye probably can't focus on it...

reg,

Danny

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Quote: Just wait for Malaika, hehehe This game does seem very promissing. I really hope it is able to provide smooth horizontal scrolling of colorful backgrounds, I've been wanting to see that in the MSX for a while.

There is GROG'S revenge that do 1 pixels scroll and colorfull background on msx1. Check the forbidden site...

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yes yes yes yes yes buncha impatient frogs! YES! ^_^

Hmm, that might be news worthy

Also with smooth scrooling there are "Moon Patrol" and circus charlie and desolator (the last is monocromatic and 1 pixel) . All on msx1

Moon patrol had also parallatic scroll! On msx1 at 4 pixels for every frame!


link to desolator

http://www.xydirect.com/msx/ShortComents.asp?IdRom=desolator