Collection of pictures for the Amstrad CPC

XeNoMoRPH · 10:27, 15 July 22

XeNoMoRPH · 05:58, 16 July 22

XeNoMoRPH · 05:59, 18 July 22

ZbyniuR · 22:44, 21 July 22

Oh my God! Eric is artist best sort. I bow to the ground.

XeNoMoRPH · 06:01, 25 July 22

rexbeng · 09:57, 25 July 22

It's funny how the result feels so much 'early 90s'! Even the style is very comparable to Made's when he was converting other peoples' works back in the day.

abalore · 10:40, 25 July 22

They are all nice pictures. But as replacements for original screens... I don't see the need and I don't like the idea.

ComSoft6128 · 12:03, 25 July 22

I don't see the need, but I like the idea and the screens

eto · 12:29, 25 July 22

Of course the original versions need to be preserved. But the personal preference for playing games can be different.

E.g. I rarely see a need for the original screens at all. Their "artwork" is often so bad, it doesn't even trigger the imagination.
I think loading screens (with few exceptions that can be considered art) are "waste". Either a waste of time (tape) or a waste of space (disc). I still remember how much I hated it, when my friend loaded a game on his 464, and 30% of the loading time went into a crappy loading screen. For my personal disc collection, I removed as many screens as possible to get 30-50% more games on a single disc.

Others use SNA anyway. No loading screen there either. And if you like loading screens in general, but hate the crappy artwork, you are free to use the new graphics. I hope they will show up at some point on cpcpower and cpcrulez, so people have a choice to select versions with updated loading screens.

skylas · 13:14, 25 July 22

Quote from: ComSoft6128 on 12:03, 25 July 22I don't see the need, but I like the idea and the screens

i can agree that the need is not so necessary, but usually creation and art get better when the only need that exists is the author/creator's need for expression

XeNoMoRPH · 14:19, 25 July 22

offtopic not CPC: Spectrum remake loading screen for Thanatos from MAC ( Batman Group )

rexbeng · 14:54, 25 July 22

Truth be said, if the purpose is to have a new loading pic for the actual game, the box illustration works much better than the picture Titan found and converted, which despite it being of similar theme ('girl on dragon'), it's not particularly well made to begin with. MAC's conversion is much more suitable. The box illustration would work nice for a CPC conversion as well.

Axelay · 23:45, 26 July 22

I needed something to do that didn't involve thinking about code, and I wondered how MAC's Thanatos image would look in CPC colours. I couldn't find if there already is one, so apologies to MAC for this hack if there is, but here's a quick stab I had at converting MAC's Thanatos to CPC colours.

There's changes to a few pixels where shading didn't work any more or needed to work differently, but it's pretty minimal.

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eto · 00:02, 27 July 22

Quote from: Axelay on 23:45, 26 July 22I needed something to do that didn't involve thinking about code, and I wondered how MAC's Thanatos image would look in CPC colours. I couldn't find if there already is one, so apologies to MAC for this hack if there is, but here's a quick stab I had at converting MAC's Thanatos to CPC colours.

There's changes to a few pixels where shading didn't work any more or needed to work differently, but it's pretty minimal.

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I think this is amazing!

XeNoMoRPH · 05:49, 27 July 22

author: Musicman Trencinqdouze , source: FB - Amstradiens

" .. Un petit essais sur Robocop qui passe du MODE 1 au MODE 0 en passant par la case Overscan. En essayant de garder au max l'esprit du screen original... en s'eloignant du mode ZX Spectrum ... "

TotO · 07:44, 27 July 22

The Robocop picture is just a fast transfert. The game title and Ocean logo look dirty.

rexbeng · 08:36, 27 July 22

Quote from: Axelay on 23:45, 26 July 22I needed something to do that didn't involve thinking about code, and I wondered how MAC's Thanatos image would look in CPC colours. I couldn't find if there already is one, so apologies to MAC for this hack if there is, but here's a quick stab I had at converting MAC's Thanatos to CPC colours.

There's changes to a few pixels where shading didn't work any more or needed to work differently, but it's pretty minimal.

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Hey, what?! Are you trying to take my job?

Good job! Orange works amazingly well on this!

rexbeng · 08:38, 27 July 22

Quote from: TotO on 07:44, 27 July 22The Robocop picture is just a fast transfert. The game title and Ocean logo look dirty.

Yeah, quite sloppy. I wonder if the person involved used ConvImgCPC, or is there some other semi-automatic tool to convert graphics?

TotO · 08:46, 27 July 22

Quote from: rexbeng on 08:38, 27 July 22Yeah, quite sloppy. I wonder if the person involved used ConvImgCPC, or is there some other semi-automatic tool to convert graphics?

It looks to use ConvImgCPC with the "trame TC" (TotO's Colours) option I have suggested to Demoniak few years ago. I don't know any other tools doing that semi-automatically.

rexbeng · 08:57, 27 July 22

Quote from: TotO on 08:46, 27 July 22It looks to use ConvImgCPC with the "trame TC" (TotO's Colours) option I have suggested to Demoniak few years ago. I don't know any other tools doing that semi-automatically.

I squeezed my brain and remembered there's also one made by Devilmarkus. https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=88808

TotO · 09:06, 27 July 22

Hehe, I don't know this tool. Nice to have both.

XeNoMoRPH · 09:07, 27 July 22

I have added some info about the author and some small words in the image of Robocop.

Axelay · 14:03, 27 July 22

Quote from: rexbeng on 08:36, 27 July 22Hey, what?! Are you trying to take my job?

Good job! Orange works amazingly well on this!

Well, probably not. I do still do my messing around with pixels in Advanced Art Studio!

I thought orange was the best compromise colour for all the things that needed to be around about that colour. Particularly when referencing the original cover art.

rexbeng · 14:19, 27 July 22

Quote from: Axelay on 14:03, 27 July 22Well, probably not. I do still do my messing around with pixels in Advanced Art Studio!

Well, that is a relief! For a moment there I feared you'd leave the coding part to me!

Axelay · 14:24, 27 July 22

Quote from: rexbeng on 14:19, 27 July 22Well, that is a relief! For a moment there I feared you'd leave the coding part to me!

Going on recent trends, you might be faster than me at it?

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Collection of pictures for the Amstrad CPC