Check this large, little, git out:
http://www.blitzcoder.com/cgi-bin/showcase/showcase_showentry.pl?id=gillissie01022003212523&comments=no
The above is more for fancy effects - but it is customisable.
Doing a small scrolling text system can be done cheaply by creating a few rows of strings and then just copying the contents of each string to the one above it. The text doesn't physically scroll - it more moves up line by line - but some RPG games use that rather than true scrolling.
http://www.blitzcoder.com/cgi-bin/showcase/showcase_showentry.pl?id=gillissie01022003212523&comments=no
The above is more for fancy effects - but it is customisable.
Doing a small scrolling text system can be done cheaply by creating a few rows of strings and then just copying the contents of each string to the one above it. The text doesn't physically scroll - it more moves up line by line - but some RPG games use that rather than true scrolling.