Post by Mark Jones Junior on Mar 31, 2005 8:25:30 GMT -5
In case some of you didn't know all my old Spectrum graphics stuff that was salvaged from those 50+ microdrives is online at:
ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/games-extras/MarkRJones/
Took me back going through that lot I tell thee! Thanks to Andrew Barker who did the hard graft getting it all transfered over.
There's piles of stuff that never got used. You can see for EVERY game I did there's lots of bits that got left out. i.e the 'cop' and the 'Ying and Yang' in 'Wizball'. That's when you went invincible and you and your cat turned into a revolving Ying and Yang. Spent hours doing that and it never got used. Though come to think of it I don't think it was used in the Commode 64 version either. Lots of 'Gryzor' bits that got cut out AND 'Vindicator', not to mention 'Athena ' (which Bill said, recently, looked better than the one that came out! ) AND the scrapped 'Total Recall', most of that stuff I'd had no memory of until I saw it again and something was unearther from the depths of my brain. Like the cartoon strip boxy things from 'TR'. Completely forgot about them!
I even found a Speccy loading screen for 'Conan' by F.D.Thorpe. THAT game never game out either so the screen went unused!
Have a browse. See how we Spectrum graphic designers worked way back then!
ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/games-extras/MarkRJones/
Took me back going through that lot I tell thee! Thanks to Andrew Barker who did the hard graft getting it all transfered over.
There's piles of stuff that never got used. You can see for EVERY game I did there's lots of bits that got left out. i.e the 'cop' and the 'Ying and Yang' in 'Wizball'. That's when you went invincible and you and your cat turned into a revolving Ying and Yang. Spent hours doing that and it never got used. Though come to think of it I don't think it was used in the Commode 64 version either. Lots of 'Gryzor' bits that got cut out AND 'Vindicator', not to mention 'Athena ' (which Bill said, recently, looked better than the one that came out! ) AND the scrapped 'Total Recall', most of that stuff I'd had no memory of until I saw it again and something was unearther from the depths of my brain. Like the cartoon strip boxy things from 'TR'. Completely forgot about them!
I even found a Speccy loading screen for 'Conan' by F.D.Thorpe. THAT game never game out either so the screen went unused!
Have a browse. See how we Spectrum graphic designers worked way back then!
