Loading Screens

[Spider]

Just a bit of fun.

Using both Andy Green's (2018)  and Mick Farrow's (2014) loading screens with two effects...

For reference, the new loading screens look like this:

 

Eight .tap files are provided, yes .tap as they load at conventional speed without 'trickery' hence no .tzx needed.

 Please load these at normal speed, ie: turn off flash/edge/fast loading !

Two for each effect and two for each author which makes four and I was initially going to leave it at that but...

... that is with the screen set to black before any drawing commences, so I made a duplicate set minus the colour controls (which are in the Basic loader anyway) so it can be seen how they work because blank black paper will hide part of the effect.

Enough said...

 

With the "ZigZag" effect with a black screen first:

Mick Farrow_2014_MM_ZigZag_BLACK.tap Andy Green_2018_MM_ZigZag_BLACK.tap

 

The same "ZigZag" effect without a black screen:

Mick Farrow_2014_MM_ZigZag_RAW.tap Andy Green_2018_MM_ZigZag_RAW.tap

 

With a "Top/Tail" effect with a black screen first:

Mick Farrow_2014_MM_TopTail_BLACK.tap Andy Green_2018_MM_TopTail_BLACK.tap

 

The same "Top/Tail" effect without a black screen:

Mick Farrow_2014_MM_TopTail_RAW.tap Andy Green_2018_MM_TopTail_RAW.tap

 

It is well worth a couple of minutes to try each one, they don't really take much more time (just over a minute) to load in compared to a standard screen.

 

[MtM]

I had some Andy Green stuff somewhere, I can't remember where I got it from, really good turbo loaders

and re done screens, the guy clearly has a lot of talent. Just out of interest Andy who is Andy Green,

or Mick Farrow for that respect, are the old skool coders I guess?

 

Thanks for the above though, some great screens there.

[Spider]

I think its zx-art mainly ?

I'm honestly not that sure.

The 'regular' screens are here for convenience if it helps, before I "fiddled about" with them hehe.

They have a simple Basic loader attached so they'll load in OK with just the Tape Loader or LOAD ""

MM_Mick Farrow - Manic Miner (2014).tap

MM_Andy Green - Manic Miner (2018).tap

Basic is just:
 

10 POKE 23739 , 111 : LOAD "" CODE
20 BORDER 0 : PAUSE 0

23739 temporarily supresses (until a CLS) the print 'pixel data'

 

Random sidenote: I did try them with inverted pixel data and/or splitting attr+pixels out loading attr first but this only really lends itself well to certain screen designs, not these unfortunately. It does work well where there's a similar paper colour all around, such as the Magic Knight series and The Hobbit (to some degree) and some of the Wally Week ones.

[MtM]

The Andy Green one looks slightly rude, unless it's just me 😉

 

[Spider]

14 hours ago, MtM said:

The Andy Green one looks slightly rude, unless it's just me 😉

I'd see a GP if telephone handsets appear 😉

Assume you've seen these actually