Retro Loaders

Playing computer games in the 8-bit home computer era typically meant enduring five minute plus tape loading times. During this loading time, a blank screen was not much fun to look at so in order to liven things up a bit, the loading screen came into being. A loading screen is a nice picture to look at whilst waiting for the game to load and hopefully run. The sight of a loading screen being drawn on screen before your very eyes, complete with coloured raster bars in the border area and even loading music for some games was a thing of beauty and occasionally looking at this was better than playing the game itself. Retro Loaders is a collection of images that have been converted to 8-bit resolution and palette presented as loading screens. However, to make things more interesting the raster bars and draw method can be changed to give completely customised loaders. To see the options, tap the screen during the loading process. Have fun!