From:	arg AT whangomatic DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk (Andrew R. Gillett)
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Subject:	Re: Tile-based side scroller
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In comp.os.msdos.djgpp, Lonny Smith wrote:
> I'm doing a side scroller and I was wondering exactly how to get the
> screen to scroll.  And am I supposed to use an enourmous image as the
> level or what?  Are there utilities for making scrollers?  I'm
> completely clueless.  Any help would be appreciated.

If it's tile-based, then you have a big array which defines the map in 
terms of which tile sprite each square uses, then you display the map by 
reading from that array. To scroll, simply change the x and y offset 
which determine where in the array you start when drawing to the screen.

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