Toryley Linden rss - Tools to make your images look Commodore 64-ish
Funny creatures we humans are: when we're stuck with technological constraints, oh how we lament them. But once they're surpassed and we know we can do better, we long for the “good old days”. Why, witness vinyl, Polaroids, and retro-computing for that matter: older computers are practically obsolete for modern computational tasks, but for playing “abandonware” games and reliving our youth (part of it, anyway), they're as needed as flour for a cake.
The Commodore 64 was my first computer, and every now and then, I have a yearning to make my current, 16.7+ million-color images look pixelated, dithered, and crushed into the horizontally-stretched limitations of 16 colors. I used to weep when I discovered GEOS Paint could only fit 2 colors into each one of its 8
January 14 2009 11:10 am | General