Today painting a picture using a computer is easy with mouse, scanner etc. But in the 80's it was harder. So, how did "game artists" create their loading screens twenty years ago? Did they use lightpens or some kind of scanner?

... way (a POKE or something) to hide the drawing of a loading screen? I ... did find a post from leespoons in an old ... - handy when you've got a screen$ to load and don't ... paper before the attributes load in, as BORDER 0 was never ...

[FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3]I?ve got my game created as a tap file generated by Pasmo. I now want to add a loading screen. Can anyone explaine the best way to go about doing this so I can create a new tap file with the loading screen?[/SIZE][/FONT]

... of creating a font is very separated from everything else, just like creating a loading screen. In ... both cases, there's no advantage to provide a built-in editor ...

... of creating a font is very separated from everything else, just like creating a loading screen. In ... both cases, there's no advantage to provide a built-in editor ...

I was asked to do a loading screen style image for GTA Vice ... compromise. Each panel is a loading screen in it's own right and each can ... the speccy's display.

There was originally a back cover ...

... =redballoon;718844]Each panel is a loading screen in it's own right and each ...

... redballoon;718844]Each panel is a loading screen in it's own right and each ... also fall into the Spectrum's attributes, so the complete ... the speccy's display.[/QUOTE]
panel with a girl is a 198 ... a bit bigger than 192.
btw can you provide that loading ...

... about creating each loading screen.

I decided to choose Elite's conversion ... from retirement to semi-retirement in doing Spectrum graphics!

s been a real challenge but it's also shown me ...

I have a Spectrum loading screen that I require to be loaded in to an ... that you can see it loading in (Paper 0, Ink7) and have ... that loading sequence recorded to be inserted in to a video.

... nasties and putting in hidden rooms. The game needs a loading screen and perhaps ... menu page if that's any consolation. And a screen named after you ... that drawings which resemble Mile's avatar or feature spurious references ...

When you display the infoseek page with loading screens turned on, the string "[Does not use a loading screen]" appears where a loading screen would take place - and yet one appears listed in the "Additional material" section.

... revived "[thread=20207]Saving a complete SCREEN$ in BASIC[/thread]" thread (although ...
How can the LET s$=a$ (the bit that does the ... FN h(udg):
LET s$=a$:
POKE defadd,0: ... FN h(udg):
LET a$=s$:
POKE defadd,0: ...

... more, to make another pic in less than two weeks with ... ago someone asked to see a possible loading screen for Firebird coin-op ... />
Soon I'll publish a link to download the .SCR ...

Here's a picture of the tape creator...
[IMG]http://s17.postimg.org/sciqhe2an/tape.png[/IMG]
When I run the tape file in an emulator, the game loads find but there isn't a loading screen, even though there should be. :confused:

I'm a UK developer, and so support Made In Creative UK [URL ... use on one half of a loading screen, so at most 12 or ... 13 characters wide, with a black background? If you can ... like it, it'll be in the game.

... a circular buffer to store tiles to be displayed on the screen ... . Tiles only appear for a set period of ... . Everything runs fast but something in the back of my head ... about creating a linked list. Has anyone gone down this route in Z80 ...

... , is make a loading screen.... none of my games have a load screen and I ... ... new tricks aren't sinking in - the Speccy manuals look like ... on my PC and created a .scr loading screen for it ... But now ... the same every time it's loaded - so isn't really ...

What's the best loading screen in your opinion?

I ...

Can't remember the title of the game, but I'm 99% sure whilst the game was loading, there was a second loading screen, and it featured a fist bashing through either bricks or something right at you????

I noticed that the loading screen in the archive for [URL="http:// ... loading screen is actually the title screen, showing the tank rotating in 3d. The loading screen ... is a "drawn" screen looking ...

... I remembered had no loading screens - in fact I remember the ... up with "[Does not use a loading screen]" - so does the second. ... reveals that this is in fact post-loading screens. The original ... Ship of Doom actually has a loading screen, of sorts, but the ...

... out there want to do a loading screen for my Christmas game?
a little short - as in you only have a couple of ... weeks to do it in, but (possible ...

... it never showed the loading screen when loading (black screen until loaded).
... to see it had a loading screen after all these years ... and that the 'no loading screen' version is not available ... download (if indeed it's classed as a different version).

The loading screen in this game belongs to a cracked version (the tap available is indeed a cracked version, I fear!), so maybe it would be nice to remove it (I mean the loading screen :) )

Just designing a loading screen for a game I'm working on.
Are there any speccy(tape based) programs for making and saving screens?

It's been a while since I used a spectrum, and my memory fails me.

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... seeing [B]Redballoon's[/B] excellent alternative loading screens I was inspired ... to have a go myself ... on the Alien 8 loading screen so, here's my version!

Here is a new loading screen for Hewson's Cybernoid, done by [B]PheeL[/ ...

Anyone interested in producing a loading screen for my new Infeasible game? ... like to release it with a decent loading screen. I could do one ... put your name on the loading screen.

Ian ...

Hi,

The original screen:
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