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Game art copied from elsewhere
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[mention]PeteProdge[/mention], this continues to be quite weird. The messages you mention were the ones I was getting in Chrome until yesterday. Since yesterday vgy.me links have worked fine for me in Chrome and all other browsers on both Windows 10 and Android 7.0 (Nougat).
I'll try to use another site for future links and maybe change the old ones if there continue to be problems.
I'll try to use another site for future links and maybe change the old ones if there continue to be problems.
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Probably down to the DNS offering from whatever internet connection you're on. It seems that vgy.me may well have fixed their certificate-pinning issue, but that may yet to filter through across to all ISPs.
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New video: Nine ZX Spectrum magazine controversies - How Crash, Your Sinclair and Sinclair User managed to offend the world!
New video: Nine ZX Spectrum magazine controversies - How Crash, Your Sinclair and Sinclair User managed to offend the world!
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Storm cover and loading screen
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 96&id=4918
and Boris Vallejo again (parody picture turned into serious picture)
Corkscrew (1983), by Boris Vallejo
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 96&id=4918
and Boris Vallejo again (parody picture turned into serious picture)
Corkscrew (1983), by Boris Vallejo
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Despite owning that cassette I clearly never looked at it very closely before, I always thought that Mastertronic logo was a kilt.
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I thought that barbarian cover was really cool, and thought the game would be a bit more RPG like. Especially when I bought Journey's End and wasn't disappointed with that......
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Match Day 2 loading screen
One of the footballers reminds of a famous pic of Gary Lineker (down, right)
Gary Lineker's Superstar Soccer cover
One of the footballers reminds of a famous pic of Gary Lineker (down, right)
Gary Lineker's Superstar Soccer cover
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Masters of the Universe (The Movie) and Death Stalker, maybe?
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Good spot, definitely not a coincidence !One of the footballers reminds of a famous pic of Gary Lineker
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And now, a Spectrum magazine copying game art for their own ends...
This is Gremlin's Impossamole...
And here is Sinclair User's 'Specman' from Feb 1992, who closely resembles the subterranean rodent.
Pretty brazen!
This is Gremlin's Impossamole...
And here is Sinclair User's 'Specman' from Feb 1992, who closely resembles the subterranean rodent.
Pretty brazen!
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thats a funny one
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Rygar and Frank Frazetta's art:
Swords of Mars, by Frank Frazetta
Rygar inlay and loading screen
Swords of Mars, by Frank Frazetta
Rygar inlay and loading screen
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I think the tiger in the Rygar picture also comes from Frank Frazetta:
The Huntress, by Frank Frazetta
It appears elsewhere, such as the cover of Legend of the Amazon Women (reversed left to right):
Legend of the Amazon Women inlay
Actually, I think it is also in the Death Stalker cover, above.
The Huntress, by Frank Frazetta
It appears elsewhere, such as the cover of Legend of the Amazon Women (reversed left to right):
Legend of the Amazon Women inlay
Actually, I think it is also in the Death Stalker cover, above.
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[mention]PeterJ[/mention] we're going to need an increased buttock allowance, can you look for a plugin.
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I'm about to increase the buttock count again...
One of the women in the Legend of the Amazon Women comes from this Frazetta picture (again reversed left to right):
Escape from Venus, by Frank Frazetta
(Clothes, especially women's, are in short supply in most of Frazetta's art.)
One of the women in the Legend of the Amazon Women comes from this Frazetta picture (again reversed left to right):
Escape from Venus, by Frank Frazetta
(Clothes, especially women's, are in short supply in most of Frazetta's art.)
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Frazetta's a fan of Robert Crumb by the looks of it...
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Speaking of The Legend of Amazon Women
Dinosaurs taken from the film One Million Years B.C.,
One Million Years B.C. movie still
The archer from Frank Frazetta:
Land of Terror, by Frank Frazetta
Dinosaurs taken from the film One Million Years B.C.,
One Million Years B.C. movie still
The archer from Frank Frazetta:
Land of Terror, by Frank Frazetta
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I'm not quite sure about the archer. The pose looks a bit different to me.
Bang on about the dinosaurs. I suspect the woman on the top right is based on Raquel Welch from the same film, but can't point to the source image.
Bang on about the dinosaurs. I suspect the woman on the top right is based on Raquel Welch from the same film, but can't point to the source image.
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Looking at the Legend of the Amazon Women art again, you can really see how it was cobbled together from disparate sources. The woman in the top right is levitating in thin air (and doesn't seem to have a left foot). The woman immediately to the left of her is twice the size as the woman standing next to her in the water. (The size difference is not due to perspective: look at the positions of their feet in the water). The allosaurus' tail disappears half way (behind one woman's hair).
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Also in some obscure game called Kentilla:The same Frazetta picture is also copied in Galivan (no fewer than three times):
Kentilla inlay (Mastertronic release)
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 96&id=6527
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Every man should plant a tree, build a house, and write a ZX Spectrum game.
Author of A Yankee in Iraq, a 50 fps shoot-’em-up—the first game to utilize the floating bus on the +2A/+3,
and zasm Z80 Assembler syntax highlighter.
Author of A Yankee in Iraq, a 50 fps shoot-’em-up—the first game to utilize the floating bus on the +2A/+3,
and zasm Z80 Assembler syntax highlighter.
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Obscure for you, maybe Kentilla was a well-known text adventure back in the day, written by Derek Brewster of Codename MAT I & II fame. I played it on the Spectrum as well as on the C64. Ah the good ol' days...
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I wasn't sure if Ralf was being ironic. I thought Kentilla was one of the best-known text adventures.
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Well, actually I didn't know about Kentilla till now and just found it by googling for inspired inlays. So you say I missed something important? Well I'll have to give it a go I guess
And going back to inspired art...
Rerelease of International Karate +
and Steven Seagal:
The beardy guy looks a bit like Chuck Norris too
And going back to inspired art...
Rerelease of International Karate +
and Steven Seagal:
The beardy guy looks a bit like Chuck Norris too
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Today I spotted:
La Cueva del Tiempo loading screen
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 6&id=27409
"borrowed" from Master of Magic loading screen
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 96&id=3054
Unfortunately they remembered to replace the signature but didn't care to correct this guy, he looks quite badly deformed
La Cueva del Tiempo loading screen
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 6&id=27409
"borrowed" from Master of Magic loading screen
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 96&id=3054
Unfortunately they remembered to replace the signature but didn't care to correct this guy, he looks quite badly deformed