turboxray wrote: ↑Thu Apr 09, 2020 2:55 am
I know of plenty of people that used the term linescrolls, since the 90's. Matter of fact, pretty sure it came from magazines back in the day (8bit,16bit generations). And it's pretty accurate actually.. you're setting the scroll value(s) on per line basis (instead of whole screen, or tile block widths). Raster effects includes linescrolls, and more.
As near as I can tell, "linescrolling" in this way appears to be a sega-ism, and searching around finds at least a couple instances of people incorrectly believing that certain non-sega platforms are incapable of performing multiple scroll change raster effects across multiple adjacent scanlines. I have to assume this happens specifically because no-one else uses that term, and we come back to my earlier point: If most people you're talking to don't already know the term, it
doesn't matter if some subgroup already had a term for it; the only utility of such a term is if you don't have to explain it.
And your point, that "linescrolling" means a specific thing in one community+context, does not in any way invalidate Koitsu's point (namely that it implies a very different thing in a different, older, but still electronics related community+context)