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I found that a tiny snippet of my very old, very crappy ZX Spectrum graphic artwork had found its way onto the website Games That Weren't late last year, courtesy of Habi Hablóg circa mid-2015. One screen each from my (probably impossible) attempt to correct Ocean's terrible Spectrum conversion of Dragon Ninja, and the original Spectrum version of my Ocean-style adaptation of the very first Dark Horse Aliens Vs Predator comic book series.

This got me scouring my SAM Coupé disks, both for the SAM demo I'd put together and for any of the Spectrum stuff which I ported over as MODE 1 SCREEN$ before reworking them (very poorly!) for MODE 4.

This is quite similar to one of the screens on GTW/HH, but with a bit more going on: there's a custom font for the sign above the door (I used The Artist II's 'Futuristic' font for the scoreboard) with flashing (BRIGHT 0, BRIGHT 1) warning lamps either side, and a lift right next to the door controls. Thinking logically, I think the controls should have been the other side of the door, since they serve little purpose where they are... but, hey, I just threw this together as quickly as possible. Technically, the door is way oversized, too. I tend to put a bit more thought into things like that these days...

Description
I found that a tiny snippet of my very old, very crappy ZX Spectrum graphic artwork had found its way onto the website Games That Weren't late last year, courtesy of Habi Hablóg circa mid-2015. One screen each from my (probably impossible) attempt to correct Ocean's terrible Spectrum conversion of Dragon Ninja, and the original Spectrum version of my Ocean-style adaptation of the very first Dark Horse Aliens Vs Predator comic book series.

This got me scouring my SAM Coupé disks, both for the SAM demo I'd put together and for any of the Spectrum stuff which I ported over as MODE 1 SCREEN$ before reworking them (very poorly!) for MODE 4.

This is quite similar to one of the screens on GTW/HH, but with a bit more going on: there's a custom font for the sign above the door (I used The Artist II's 'Futuristic' font for the scoreboard) with flashing (BRIGHT 0, BRIGHT 1) warning lamps either side, and a lift right next to the door controls. Thinking logically, I think the controls should have been the other side of the door, since they serve little purpose where they are... but, hey, I just threw this together as quickly as possible. Technically, the door is way oversized, too. I tend to put a bit more thought into things like that these days...