Bert's Dinosaurs screenshots

The game's title screen. This is drawn line by line, animal by animal and could take a while on a slow/older machine

The game area. This starts out with just the sidebar and the rest of the screen blank. Clicking on Animal for the first time brings up the background selection menu

Having selected a background the artist is now able to select their dinosaur from this scrollable list Again, every animal here is drawn line by line

Having selected a dinosaur the program offers the artist four sizes of the creature to choose from. Each size is drawn and coloured separately in its own window

Having selected an animal the program offers the artist four sizes to choose from

Here the artist has chosen the smaller of the available sizes of dinosaurs. They are shown a window, upper left, which they drag to the position in the picture where they want the creature placed

This shows the first dinosaur placed in the picture

This shows the colour palette available to the artist. Click on a colour then click on the place to be coloured. There's no horizon in this background so the sky colour goes everywhere

The Story button lets the artist add comments which will appear on the printed picture

There is a Save/Load function with nice clear icons

The game is shareware so, on exit, there's a reminder to pay up

The game's title screen. Version 3.0

The picture construction area Version 3.0 draws much faster. The shareware version is a different colour and has additional backgrounds

Bert's Dinosaurs

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