BRILLIANT UTILITY!!

I created screens for a friend’s BBS when I was a SysOp.. specifically, a fast-food-restaurant-themed screen where BBS games and other files were hosted, called “McDownloads”..!!

Back in the day… when the McD’s menus were Bold White Text on Burgundy (dark red) background, and the Big M was an easy-enough Yellow on Red..

I did lots of experimenting with “animations”, and it was THIS util in which I learnt about “trailing blank spaces” which would “erase” the tracks of an object being moved across the screen, in order not to leave a trace/tail of the trailing edge of the moving object.

One of the biggest inspirations at the time, for me, was the BBS game OVERKILL — their “art” was very well done.. and the gameplay was engaging and had many of us going back again and again…

I was also STILL fascinated by the old AutoDuel game & universe (from Steve Jackson Games’s “Car Wars” box sets) and did screens and animations based on weaponized vehicles…

Man, I wish I knew where I could get copies of my old screens.. I don’t think my folks kept any of my old 1.2Mb 5.25″ floppies, or 720 / 1.44k 3.5″ disks either… Ahh.. when Verbatim was king. *lol*