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July 28, 2011 11:07 AM
Anyone know of a good resource for retro computer artwork?
For a project I'm working on, I'd like to reference some digital artwork from the early days of computing— old-school clip-art, lo-res pixel paintings, screenshots from adventure games or other vintage computer games. Particularly interested in dithered grayscale pixel paintings in the 512px horizontal resolution range. I feel like there is an endless treasure trove of this stuff, if only based on my vague memories of gaming on a Mac SE, and it seems like something that would be a prime candidate for some geek assembling into an online archive, yet I haven't been able to track down such a resource yet. Any leads? There's a small collection of stand-alone artwork created with MacPaint here, but I know there's much more to be pulled from the early gaming world...
For a project I'm working on, I'd like to reference some digital artwork from the early days of computing— old-school clip-art, lo-res pixel paintings, screenshots from adventure games or other vintage computer games. Particularly interested in dithered grayscale pixel paintings in the 512px horizontal resolution range. I feel like there is an endless treasure trove of this stuff, if only based on my vague memories of gaming on a Mac SE, and it seems like something that would be a prime candidate for some geek assembling into an online archive, yet I haven't been able to track down such a resource yet. Any leads? There's a small collection of stand-alone artwork created with MacPaint here, but I know there's much more to be pulled from the early gaming world...
Hmm, looking through their comparison I'm not really seeing much difference between that dithering algorithm and the one Photoshop uses. In any case, I actually prefer the pattern-dither that mac Photoshop's Indexed Color mode offers, now I'm just looking for art reference materials..
I did find this great collection of ASCII/ANSI art from the BBS-era in a previous question, but what I'm looking for is stuff of a later vintage.
posted by brightghost at 12:20 PM on July 28, 2011
I did find this great collection of ASCII/ANSI art from the BBS-era in a previous question, but what I'm looking for is stuff of a later vintage.
posted by brightghost at 12:20 PM on July 28, 2011
Macintosh Garden has lists of "abandonware" mac games. You can browse by year.
posted by RobotHero at 12:27 PM on July 28, 2011
posted by RobotHero at 12:27 PM on July 28, 2011
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