In the Windows 3.1 days I made my own icons. Yes, a single pixel out of place or wrongly colored would throw it all off.
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GamingChairModel@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Now that splash screen, with its pixelated gradient of the 256 color palette brings back some nostalgic memories.
It’s funny because we can see pixelated stuff today mostly in shitty jpeg artifacts, but those follow the jpeg algorithm for how to best conserve file size within their compression scheme, so they look different. This splash screen seemingly has every pixel meticulously chosen so that it’s in the right place, and working with only the limits of the color space.
shalafi@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Mercuri@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Oh shit… core memory unlocked. I forgot I used to do this. I forgot there was a time you would do this otherwise everything just had the same icon.
moody@lemmings.world 3 months ago
Even better, that splash screen was only 16 colors.
nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Saved a lot of memory. Even though we had upgraded to 24mb in our Mac Performa at the time.
SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Dithering, it’s a lost art. It always reminds me of Monkey Island.
JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Best game. You post like a barmaid.