The Great Giana Sisters...

[Guesser]

Yellow is a lot less... yellow on a spectrum though.

[Ralf]

Red on yellow happens in Spectrum games. See for example this map of Super Wonder Boy.

http://maps.speccy.cz/map.php?id=SuperW ... rt=19&ath=

But yes, it's a terrible choice.

[R-Tape]

I converted this from a magazine scan, pixel by pixel:


http://zxart.ee/eng/authors/letter20332 ... qid:74823/

Doesn't look that great...

It could be a case of "I wouldn't start from here" but:

Superwonderboy's blue on cyan just about gets away with it, but if you're going monochrome with paper surely black ink is the best choice.



But I wonder how a flip screen might have looked.

[Sokurah]

I think it's only a matter of time before someone (not me) codes a version for the Spectrum Next.
That has hardware scrolling, so that's the worst CPU bottleneck taken care of. You heard it here first

[Hikaru]

But yes, it's a terrible choice.

Depends.

I think it's only a matter of time before someone (not me) codes a version for the Spectrum Next.

Yes, using a BASIC interpreter written in compiled BASIC, with eyes closed and one hand tied to the back.

[4thRock]

But I wonder how a flip screen might have looked.

Not that bad, but still those sprites don't look nice...