invisible kid Posted July 25, 2021 Share Posted July 25, 2021 (edited) Thankfully they seem surprisingly common. If anyone knows more, just say the name and I'll add a pic. I especially like the ones in gr.0/gr.8 with a black background. Good spooky music is a bonus. I'll try to add more. Castle Wolfenstein(in atari800 it looks better with no artifacting): Beneath Apple Manor(has Hall of the Mountain King music): Edited July 25, 2021 by invisible kid 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xrbrevin Posted July 25, 2021 Share Posted July 25, 2021 Schreckenstein: 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MARIO130XE Posted July 25, 2021 Share Posted July 25, 2021 Dimos Quest 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invisible kid Posted July 25, 2021 Author Share Posted July 25, 2021 Schreckenstein: Great intro and has music, thanks! Dimos Quest: Great use of color, and this one has music too, thanks! Atari version looks a little lower res, but still captures the spirit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invisible kid Posted July 25, 2021 Author Share Posted July 25, 2021 (edited) Oldorf's Revenge was on the Apple ][ and Atari 8 bits got a version titled Warlock's Revenge(Requires BASIC rev. A). No music. Artifacting on: Artifacting off: Original Apple: Edited July 25, 2021 by invisible kid 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invisible kid Posted July 25, 2021 Author Share Posted July 25, 2021 (edited) Horror Castle with a clever "less is more" approach: Transylvania: Edited July 25, 2021 by invisible kid 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adam242 Posted July 26, 2021 Share Posted July 26, 2021 Not quite a castle, but still... The Goonies 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yautja Posted July 26, 2021 Share Posted July 26, 2021 Remembered about this. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invisible kid Posted July 26, 2021 Author Share Posted July 26, 2021 (edited) Goonies: What a pic with the silhouettes, has music, and it is as good as a castle, thanks! Blinky's Scary School: Whoa, great pic and has spooky music too! Great font and game is well done, thanks! For Blinky's, I could not get to the title screen pic on the atr version and I could not get the .cas to load. It gave an error, but also atari800 had the cassette load icon so maybe I wasn't patient enough. Edited July 26, 2021 by invisible kid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Philsan Posted July 26, 2021 Share Posted July 26, 2021 17 hours ago, Yautja said: Remembered about this. Never seen this beautiful titlescreen. Where can I download that version of the game? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tezz Posted July 26, 2021 Share Posted July 26, 2021 (edited) 38 minutes ago, Philsan said: Never seen this beautiful titlescreen. Where can I download that version of the game? Hi Phil, I'm not sure who did that version with the title but back in 2012 (or was it 2013?) I created some examples to help demonstrate XBIOS at the time. These included the Zeppelin games: Zybex, Draconus, Blinky's and Jocky Wilson's Darts Compendium. I added the loading pictures to each one displayed during disk IO. With Blinky's I added the full title screen and animation during loading. I also added some fixes to the games. I got carried away with Jocky Wilson's Darts and replaced the dart playing sequences with full colour versions along with a bunch of fixes. zeppelin_ed.atr Edited July 26, 2021 by Tezz 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heaven/TQA Posted July 26, 2021 Share Posted July 26, 2021 22 minutes ago, Tezz said: Hi Phil, I'm not sure who did that version with the title but back in 2012 (or was it 2013?) I created some examples to help demonstrate XBIOS at the time. These included the Zeppelin games: Zybex, Draconus, Blinky's and Jocky Wilson's Darts Compendium. I added the loading pictures to each one displayed during disk IO. With Blinky's I added the full title screen and animation during loading. I also added some fixes to the games. I got carried away with Jocky Wilson's Darts and replaced the dart playing sequences with full colour versions along with a bunch of fixes. zeppelin_ed.atr 130.02 kB · 1 download Tezz.... looking at your signature... Barbarian was finished??? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tezz Posted July 26, 2021 Share Posted July 26, 2021 @Karolj I've not been able to edit my signature since the forum upgrade! ? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invisible kid Posted July 26, 2021 Author Share Posted July 26, 2021 Wow, thanks for the version with that awesome pic/animation! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yautja Posted July 27, 2021 Share Posted July 27, 2021 9 hours ago, Tezz said: Hi Phil, I'm not sure who did that version with the title but back in 2012 (or was it 2013?) I created some examples to help demonstrate XBIOS at the time. These included the Zeppelin games: Zybex, Draconus, Blinky's and Jocky Wilson's Darts Compendium. I added the loading pictures to each one displayed during disk IO. With Blinky's I added the full title screen and animation during loading. I also added some fixes to the games. I got carried away with Jocky Wilson's Darts and replaced the dart playing sequences with full colour versions along with a bunch of fixes. zeppelin_ed.atr 130.02 kB · 11 downloads Many thanks! In fact, I only had the single loading screen file, no animation at all. Back to 2013 someone designed a few more intro images for Arkanoid, Boulder Dash II and Spellbound. I'd really appreciate if you or someone else could share those versions with the games -like the file you posted. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Philsan Posted July 27, 2021 Share Posted July 27, 2021 Awesome titlescreen images Terrence! Blinky's titlescreen was made by José and you enhanced (and animated) it. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tezz Posted July 27, 2021 Share Posted July 27, 2021 3 hours ago, Philsan said: Awesome titlescreen images Terrence! Blinky's titlescreen was made by José and you enhanced (and animated) it. Hi Phil, ah yes that original Blinky's image was probably Jose, actually the Draconus picture was done by me and Jose together but the Blinky's intro I did from scratch to replicate the c64 title as a loader instead. Zybex didn't have a great loading picture so I drew the Zeppelin logo instead A few years ago in one of the competitions Rafal Strzelecki created a neat Zybex picture split with mode 9 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tezz Posted July 27, 2021 Share Posted July 27, 2021 (edited) 4 hours ago, Yautja said: Many thanks! In fact, I only had the single loading screen file, no animation at all. Back to 2013 someone designed a few more intro images for Arkanoid, Boulder Dash II and Spellbound. I'd really appreciate if you or someone else could share those versions with the games -like the file you posted. Boulder Dash II was one of mine again, that was back in 2009. Whilst I was enjoying creating the loaders for the XBIOS examples in 2013 I did one for BDII also. I wanted to have a raster effect during disk IO, something that I was told was impossible back in the 80's It's a shame that loading sequences and pictures are redundent now with modern high speed solutions. Arkanoid was my conversion of the c64 loading picture done in the early days of G2F which is in the archive, someone added it to the executable many years ago which I wasn't aware of until recently. I did redraw an Arkanoid title based more on the arcade, I should have that backed up somewhere. xbios_bdii.atr Edited July 27, 2021 by Tezz Added the disk image 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beeblebrox Posted July 27, 2021 Share Posted July 27, 2021 (edited) The other Blinky's Scary School title screen - A Rastaconverted C64 sourced image from 2017 (see original Rastaconverter image post here which has the XEX) - Great use of colour and spooky castle illuminated by the moon. See here for the modded Blinky's game with the image below tacked onto it courtesy of MrFish? Edited July 27, 2021 by Beeblebrox adding more info 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bocianu Posted July 27, 2021 Share Posted July 27, 2021 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invisible kid Posted July 27, 2021 Author Share Posted July 27, 2021 Thanks Beeblebrox(and MrFish)! Another great one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invisible kid Posted July 27, 2021 Author Share Posted July 27, 2021 Old Mansion: Wow! Love this style, great spooky music too! Thanks! I ended up getting it from here: http://gury.atari8.info/detail.php?id=14927&src=2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beeblebrox Posted July 27, 2021 Share Posted July 27, 2021 5 minutes ago, invisible kid said: Thanks Beeblebrox(and MrFish)! Another great one. @invisible kid I just signposted to it as remembered seeing it a few months back whilst trawling the great Rastaconverter topic thread and being very impressed. It's great to see the A8 pumping out colours in this way. Incidentally there are more title screen examples of other games in that thread, worth checking out. ? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heaven/TQA Posted July 27, 2021 Share Posted July 27, 2021 15 hours ago, Tezz said: @Karolj I've not been able to edit my signature since the forum upgrade! ? doesn't answer the question if Barbarian was completed? maybe same status as Elite! (Karolj runs and hides)... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heaven/TQA Posted July 27, 2021 Share Posted July 27, 2021 2 hours ago, Tezz said: Boulder Dash II was one of mine again, that was back in 2009. Whilst I was enjoying creating the loaders for the XBIOS examples in 2013 I did one for BDII also. I wanted to have a raster effect during disk IO, something that I was told was impossible back in the 80's It's a shame that loading sequences and pictures are redundent now with modern high speed solutions. Arkanoid was my conversion of the c64 loading picture done in the early days of G2F which is in the archive, someone added it to the executable many years ago which I wasn't aware of until recently. I did redraw an Arkanoid title based more on the arcade, I should have that backed up somewhere. xbios_bdii.atr 90.02 kB · 2 downloads nice one... Tezz... I might asked you that now for x-times (me getting old I know)... but where did you get as UK guy into A8 esp.? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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