Spectrum Computing

Posted: **Mon Jan 22, 2018 12:24 pm**

Agent X loading screen

copied from:
Turbo Esprit loading screen

Posted: **Mon Jan 22, 2018 1:44 pm**

The absence of the wing mirrors makes the top pic look completely different...

Posted: **Mon Jan 22, 2018 1:46 pm**

Rorthron wrote: ↑Sun Jan 21, 2018 11:58 am Odd.

Can you see Morkin's images of Balachor's Revenge in this thread? (He also used vgy.me.)

viewtopic.php?f=7&t=182&p=1766#p1766

Think it's a trust issue between Chrome and vgy.me, works fine in IE.

Posted: **Tue Jan 23, 2018 7:41 pm**

Game Over cover

Mutants cover

Posted: **Tue Jan 23, 2018 8:08 pm**

Good spot with Game Over and Mutants!

At first I didn't notice it at all.

If someone doesn't really see it:

Spoiler

It's the helmet. See two little "horns" at the forhead, nose cover, edges around the eyes. Too much similar for a coincidence

And here it is isn't obvious who copied after whom

Posted: **Tue Jan 23, 2018 8:12 pm**

Cyberun loading screen

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 96&id=9329

Crystal Castles loading screen

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 96&id=1179

Posted: **Tue Jan 23, 2018 8:35 pm**

Ralf wrote: ↑Tue Jan 23, 2018 8:08 pm Good spot with Game Over and Mutants!

And here it is isn't obvious who copied after whom

I can't take credit for the spot, but I can answer the question of who copied who. Bob Wakelin explained that Mutants was copied from Game Over.

Posted: **Tue Jan 23, 2018 10:11 pm**

I can't find an exact match, but Movie looks like it was influenced by Casablanca:

Movie cover

Casablanca (1942) movie stills

Posted: **Tue Jan 23, 2018 10:13 pm**

Also I suspect Cavelon might have been influenced by the movie Excalibur:

Cavelon cover, by Bob Wakelin

Excalibur (1981) movie still

Posted: **Tue Jan 23, 2018 10:56 pm**

Pobulous wrote: ↑Mon Jan 22, 2018 12:24 pm Agent X

copied from:
Turbo Esprit

Posted: **Tue Jan 23, 2018 11:14 pm**

Ha! They didn't even move it, just mirrored.

I made them face the same way, and XORd them together. Not much car left!

Posted: **Wed Jan 24, 2018 7:13 am**

Rorthron wrote: ↑Tue Jan 23, 2018 7:41 pm Game Over cover:

Helmet? Which helmet?

Posted: **Wed Jan 24, 2018 8:45 am**

Rorthron wrote: ↑Tue Jan 23, 2018 10:13 pm Also I suspect Cavelon might have been influenced by the movie Excalibur:

Heh - nice one. I've got that film on DVD somewhere - got it for 50p in a charity shop I think.

I don't think I've actually watched it yet - in fact, I don't think I've taken the plastic covering off it...

Posted: **Wed Jan 24, 2018 10:23 am**

Smash TV loading screen (the inlay is different)

and Boris Vallejo's movie poster for National Lampoon's Vacation (1983)

Posted: **Fri Jan 26, 2018 11:08 pm**

Dragonlance Game (TSR board game from 1988) box cover

Corya the Warrior-Sage loading screen

Posted: **Sat Jan 27, 2018 12:04 pm**

And of course there's European Vacation too...

The Shard of Inovar cover

National Lampoon's European Vacation (1985) movie poster

Posted: **Sat Jan 27, 2018 6:59 pm**

Amazed how such a crappy film can inspire so many artworks!

Posted: **Sat Jan 27, 2018 7:54 pm**

Aah, but it’s all due to the great Boris Vallejo!

Posted: **Sun Jan 28, 2018 10:21 am**

Can everyone see all the images again? They seem to have started working normally again on all browsers I use. I have tried Chrome, Firefox and Edge on Android and Windows 10. All six combinations are working fine now, where before only Edge was.

Posted: **Sun Jan 28, 2018 10:56 am**

Working all right in Firefox for me.

But I had some problems with images before. On my computer at work I couldn't see some image, at home I could although I was using Firefox at both places. Don't know what's the reason but can confirm the the problem exists from time to time.

Posted: **Sun Jan 28, 2018 11:07 am**

I think the problem was vgy.me. That site suffered some sort of outage on 16 Jan and was not properly restored. Users were reporting pinned-key problems like the ones we have seen here. On 23 Jan they announced they would revert to the old system. I guess that has just happened. Hopefully that should be the end of the problems.

Posted: **Sun Jan 28, 2018 4:23 pm**

Aztec Calendar stone

El Cetro del Sol loading screen

Posted: **Sun Jan 28, 2018 4:57 pm**

Amazed how such a crappy film can inspire so many artworks!

There is even more

Actually I found a great link about these inspirations but I'm not posting it to not kill the thread

Stormlord loading screen

Shard of Inovar cover

Posted: **Mon Jan 29, 2018 9:27 am**

Rorthron wrote: ↑Sun Jan 28, 2018 11:07 am I think the problem was vgy.me. That site suffered some sort of outage on 16 Jan and was not properly restored. Users were reporting pinned-key problems like the ones we have seen here. On 23 Jan they announced they would revert to the old system. I guess that has just happened. Hopefully that should be the end of the problems.

It's not. I can't see anything.

Everything from the vgy.me domain is blocked by default for Chrome users.

This is what I see under Windows and Mac OS when looking at vgy.me on Chrome...

Try IMGUR.com instead.

Posted: **Mon Jan 29, 2018 9:29 am**

To be more specific about vgy.me content not showing up for Chrome users, here's what the 'Advanced' details say...

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