Neons in Renegade level 3 (Big Bertha level) use flash and it looks quite nice.
Maybe it's a cheap trick but it adds a real value to the game. You know, in the 80s I really aprreciated animated background. Leaves on the trees moved by the wind, moving clouds in the sky, flowing and sparkling water, burning torches and so on. It was a standard in arcade games but in Spectrum games and generally 8 bit games the background was often static, due to memory limitations. So it was always nice to see some animation in the background.
Games that made good use of FLASH
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Bruce Lee had flashing lanterns?
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The water in thar one:
Roller Coaster by Elite.
Roller Coaster by Elite.
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the water animation is also looking nice in this game:
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/3 ... le_Fantasy
Cropped up while I was trying out the random search.
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Yeah, it was spotted in a previous post, but yes, really fantastic look for simply BASIC and FLASH.
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Is that a man with a Zimmer frame trying to run away at the bottom a bit to the right there lol 
If that's the loading screen it's annoying anyway. Presumably some sort of Missile Command game.
If that's the loading screen it's annoying anyway. Presumably some sort of Missile Command game.
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Probably Weinstein. I covered it up so as to not provoke spasms. It's a non-graphic text adventure.ParadigmShifter wrote: ↑Mon May 27, 2024 12:38 am Is that a man with a Zimmer frame trying to run away at the bottom a but to the right there lol
If that's the loading screen it's annoying anyway. Presumably some sort of Missile Command game.
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Weinstein a go go?
Had to look up who it was then I remembered. Probably best to cover up the flash there anyway it was too much flash.
I see that video also uses FLASH 1 too lol
No one in that video resembles Albert Einstein either maybe they got confused with Dr. Frankenstein?
EDIT: Einstein as a theoretical physicist didn't do any madcap experiments and such he just sat down and had a good old think about stuff, working it out with a pencil, probably with a pipe, cup of coffee, biscuits, and comfortable slippers. He did say his happiest thought was imagining someone falling out of a window (could have been a tall building/roof) though (principle of equivalence, you are weightless when falling - so that's what started off General Relativity).
Had to look up who it was then I remembered. Probably best to cover up the flash there anyway it was too much flash.
I see that video also uses FLASH 1 too lol
No one in that video resembles Albert Einstein either maybe they got confused with Dr. Frankenstein?EDIT: Einstein as a theoretical physicist didn't do any madcap experiments and such he just sat down and had a good old think about stuff, working it out with a pencil, probably with a pipe, cup of coffee, biscuits, and comfortable slippers. He did say his happiest thought was imagining someone falling out of a window (could have been a tall building/roof) though (principle of equivalence, you are weightless when falling - so that's what started off General Relativity).