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Twoflower
Registered: Jan 2002
Posts: 436 |
Graphics from the Magnetic Scrolls games?
Do any of you folks know of demos containing the images from the Magnetic Scrolls titles - The Pawn, Guild of Thieves, Jinxter, Myth, Corruption and Fish? I seem to remember a demo containing all the images from The Pawn, but I can't seem to locate it.
Whatever the case is, those images are very impressionistic and some of them are really well-pixeled and deserves to be preserved in another media than those games.
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tlr
Registered: Sep 2003
Posts: 1814 |
Pawn Demo by SCC |
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Perplex
Registered: Feb 2009
Posts: 257 |
Brainstorm 3 by Megastyle uses a slightly modified version of the graphics from the starting location. Not really suitable as preservation. :-P
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Copyfault
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 487 |
I remember that back then there were rumours that the graphics for The Pawn (or even for other magnetic scrolls prods) have been taken from a gfx competition that was held by some uk print magazine... don't know if this is really true...
However, if this IS true, maybe the magazine also released the competition entries as some kind of gfx demo? Does anyone here know more?
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Count Zero
Registered: Jan 2003
Posts: 2012 |
I doubt that - been checking all UK mags I could get ahold of just recently and sure would have seen that.
/cz |
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Steppe
Registered: Jan 2002
Posts: 1510 |
Wasn't there a Crest demo that scrolled a couple of screens from The Pawn back and forth? |
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Twoflower
Registered: Jan 2002
Posts: 436 |
Well, as it seems - most of the C-64 graphics was pixeled or "painted" by Geoff Quilley - and some of them are really amazing. Just take a look at the snowman from The Pawn and some of the landscapes from the same game. Later on (in f.ex The Guild of Thieves and Corruption) the motives, choice of color and the dithering goes really experimental.
I'm also pretty sure this isn't a case of early conversions from the Atari ST. The images between the different versions differ way too much. |
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Steppe
Registered: Jan 2002
Posts: 1510 |
Quote: Wasn't there a Crest demo that scrolled a couple of screens from The Pawn back and forth?
Ah no, those were Defender of the Crown pictures, now I remember. |
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Angel of Death
Registered: Apr 2008
Posts: 215 |
http://msmemorial.if-legends.org/legacy/facts.htm
Everything there is to know about every Magnetic Scroll game ever. (that is a lot of ever, i know but there is a lot on that site)
There is also a bit of technical info on how graphics and text are stored on the various systems. |
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T.M.R
Account closed
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 749 |
i was always under the impression that Bob Stevenson did the C64 graphics...? |
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Twoflower
Registered: Jan 2002
Posts: 436 |
Quote: i was always under the impression that Bob Stevenson did the C64 graphics...?
Umm, thinking of it - the images are far too Bob Stevenson-ish to not be. Just check this for instance:
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