On the Monochrome Edge

Making some GIF files constrained to the graphics capabilities of the Tandy Color Computer 3 was an amusing diversion, if in the hard-to-articulate way that can accompany “fooling around with old computers” for me. As with the Apple II images I’ve generated before, I suppose the grainy, pixelated look of graphics boiled down from far more colourful originals left me contemplating and appreciating the work that went into the much cleaner “pixel art” of the past. A bit of searching (and wondering if modern pixel art tends towards canvases as small as possible, perhaps influenced more by the “sprites” of video game systems) turned up a gallery of screen-sized pictures, but so far I’ve only daydreamed about trying to get the Atari ST graphics among them onto Color Computer disk images to try out other image viewers run across (with a smattering of assuredly antique pictures on old disk images).
( Moving along, but making more discoveries )