mon = peripheral.wrap("left")
function lineBreak()
    x, y = mon.getCursorPos()
    if y ~= 1 then
            y = y + 1
    end
    mon.setCursorPos(1, y)
    width, height = mon.getSize()
    mon.write("+" .. string.rep("-", width - 2) .. "+")
end
function printString(sString)
    x, y = mon.getCursorPos()
    y = y + 1
    mon.setCursorPos(1, y)
    mon.write(sString)
end
function printStringCentre(sString)
    x, y = mon.getCursorPos()
    y = y + 1
    mon.setCursorPos(1, y)
    width, height = mon.getSize()
    nStringCentre = math.floor(string.len(sString) / 2)
    nMonitorCentre = math.floor(width / 2)
    x = math.floor(nMonitorCentre - nStringCentre)
    mon.setCursorPos(x, y)
    mon.write(sString)
end
function printStringRight(sString)
width, height = mon.getSize()
x, y = mon.getCursorPos()
y = y + 1
x = math.ceil(width - string.len(sString))
mon.setCursorPos(x, y)
mon.write(sString)
end
function scrollText(tStrings, nRate)
nRate = nRate or 5
if nRate < 0 then
  error("rate must be positive")
end
local nSleep = 1 / nRate

width, height = mon.getSize()
x, y = mon.getCursorPos()
    sText = ""
    for n = 1, #tStrings do
            sText = sText .. tostring(tStrings[n])
  sText = sText .. " | "
    end
    sString = "| "
    if width / string.len(sText) < 1 then
            nStringRepeat = 3
    else
            nStringRepeat = math.ceil(width / string.len(sText) * 3)
    end
for n = 1, nStringRepeat do
  sString = sString .. sText
end
while true do
  for n = 1, string.len(sText) do
   sDisplay = string.sub(sString, n, n + width - 1)
   mon.clearLine()
   mon.setCursorPos(1, y)
   mon.write(sDisplay)
   sleep(nSleep)
  end
end
end
mon.clear()
mon.setCursorPos(1, 1)
lineBreak()
printStringCentre("|News Board|")
lineBreak()
printString("")
lineBreak()
tScrollText = {}
tScrollText[1] = "BREAKING NEWS"
tScrollText[2] = "It's not in the way that you hold me It's not in the way you say you care It's not in the way you've been treating my friends It's not in the way that you stayed till the end It's not in the way you look or the things that you say that you'll do Hold the line, love isn't always on time, oh oh oh Hold the line, love isn't always on time, oh oh oh It's not in the words that you told me, girl It's not in the way you say you're mine, ooh It's not in the way that you came back to me It's not in the way that your love set me free It's not in the way you look or the things that you say that you'll do Hold the line, love isn't always on time, oh oh oh Hold the line, love isn't always on time, oh oh oh It's not in the words that you told me It's not in the way you say you're mine, ooh It's not in the way that you came back to me It's not in the way that your love set me free It's not in the way you look or the things that you say that you'll do Hold the line, love isn't always on time, oh oh oh Hold the line, love isn't always on time (Love isn't always on time) Hold the line, love isn't always on time (love isn't always, love isn't always on time) Hold the line, love isn't always on time Love isn't always on time Love isn't always on time Love isn't always on time, oh oh oh"
x, y = mon.getCursorPos()
y = y - 1
mon.setCursorPos(1, y)
scrollText(tScrollText)