Scrawler

There was a game on the Amiga, Jimmy White’s Whirlwind Snooker, and along with being a really well engineered treat by legend Archer MacLean, the title screen had this cool effect where the title text was written out like chalk on a board.

Well, I wanted that effect, so I made a recorder for mouse strokes. Worked out pretty well, though didn’t age very well because the Amiga and MS-DOS had fixed clock speeds.

Here’s an example of the editor in action: