I was playing the CD32 version with TF330 support on WinUAE, and I've found these weird glitches. The graphics got all freaky every time I lost a life, and they'd go back to normal only after choosing "continue"
That's interesting, something I never saw. What has been reported before, was the copper gradient that got hit. It's possibly caused by the same root cause (cdtv.device causing trouble to load assets).
For some odd reason, this doesn't seem to happen on FS-UAE (with FS-UAE Launcher). So, I'd recommend that. Meanwhile, I'm in the process of switching the version of the engine, in order to drop the problematic cdtv.device. Thanks!
Thanks. Great to hear about the A1200/CD-ROM setup working well.
About the graphic corruption, similar issues were reported on other Scorpion game too, check this post.
Still not 100% clear what exactly causes it, but it's worth to mention that I never got reports of graphic corruption coming from the standard A1200/A4000 version (non-CD), so, there's that to consider too.