# Tape Loading Screen: motion graphics style

> An 8-bit cassette loading text animation: border stripes race as a loading screen paints the word in interleaved lines, then snaps into color cell by cell. Eight-color palette and color clash; for retro-computing and chiptune intros.

- Category: [Retro Computing & Games](https://aimotions.art/category/retro-computing-games/)
- Also known as: cassette loading screen, 8-bit computer loading, tape loader border stripes, loading bars border, attribute clash, retro computer boot
- Demo built with: Canvas · Energy: Lively · Background: Dark bg
- Live demo: https://aimotions.art/styles/tape-loader-stripes/
- Spanish version: https://aimotions.art/es/estilos/tape-loader-stripes/

## Prompt (replace [TEXT] with your text)

```text
Recreate an 8-bit home computer loading a program from cassette, revealing [TEXT]. Low-resolution screen with a wide colored border around a 256×160 paper area. Start with a white screen and a blinking LOAD prompt. Then the border fills with thin horizontal raster stripes: slowly rolling red and cyan bands for the pilot tone, then fast, jittery blue and yellow hairlines for data. A "Program:" line appears, and the loading picture paints in as black-on-white pixel lines in an interleaved order (every eighth line first, like venetian blinds). Finally the color attributes arrive in 8×8 cells top to bottom, snapping the image into bright color on black with visible color clash: [TEXT] in a chunky 8×8 bitmap font scaled up, banded yellow/red/magenta, with a dithered drop shadow, a ringed planet, stars and green dithered mountains. Border goes black; hold.
```

## Visual DNA

- Thin horizontal raster stripes racing through the screen border
- Red/cyan pilot bands, then blue/yellow data noise
- Bitmap arrives in interleaved lines, like venetian blinds
- Color attributes load last in 8×8 cells, with authentic color clash
- Eight-color bright palette, 8×8 bitmap font, black paper
- Ringed planet, dithered mountains and starfield on the loading screen

The prompts are free to copy, adapt and use in personal and commercial projects, with no credit required. Republishing the collection or a substantial part of it (for example as another library or a dataset) requires written permission.

How to cite: Tape Loading Screen, aimotions, https://aimotions.art/styles/tape-loader-stripes/