This is a community repo for saving cool vintage digital art. Magazine descriptions or history of the photo is strongly encouraged as well as the artists name. I know the community name is AmigaART but any vintage digital art is welcome.
Community Rules
• This is a place for vintage art. (Before the year 2000)
• Any artwork that is newer will be removed as it does not fit the community. There are plenty of other places to post new pixel art.
• Please be respectful in the comments.
• Any nsfw needs to be tagged as such. (no matter how few pixels it consists of.)
If you know what it was created on then please post the system and or the software that it was created on. Restorations and tributes are very much welcome as well. Just be sure to cite the inspiration or the original source.
I was inspired to create this from RetroAhoy’s restoration of the 4 Byte Burger. A fantastic watch if you have 40 minutes to spare.
The community photo is his restoration of the 4 Byte Burger with some adjustments to match the photo of the photo of the screen done by myself.
The header is a photo I found on a forum of an award-winning pixel illustration from Ron Cobb named Skybox. It won 1st prize for illustration at the second annual PixelPaint competition, in 1990. PixelPaint is the program which was used to make this image which was the first full color paint application made for Macintosh around 1988.
The op had made some adjustments to the photo and had wrote out this description below for the photo. Thank you op if you ever read this.
“I really like how the image is a twist on the computer graphics concept of a “sky box”, turning it into a wonderfully surreal image juxtaposed over a naturalistic background.
I scoured the net and this was the best version of the image that I could find. You can see most of the pixels well, but unfortunately there is some .JPG distortion on the clouds. This is definitely pixel art, it’s just a high resolution image; you need to zoom in to see the building blocks.
I upscaled for clarity and converted to .PNG to prevent further degradation of the file.”
The five pieces of the island that can be seen in-game line up perfectly. There also are some unused assets for the shores that complete the image into a seamless map.
More information on this image and the game itself can be found here: https://gamehistory.org/monkeyisland/
cross-posted from: https://rabbitea.rs/post/359250
Aside from the logo, which I think I just upscaled from an icon (which is why it looks so blocky), I drew this in DPaint on an Amiga back in the 1990s. I was quite proud of how it came out given I have very little artistic talent, although I wish I'd redrawn the logo.
Here’s an awesome, unique and historic piece of pixel art. Don Joyce, the host of the radio show Over The Edge from San Francisco’s community radio station KPFA and a member of the culture-jamming art and music collective Negativland made this piece of art way back in 1985. This piece presumably depicts either himself as an alien running the radio show, or an alien as a fan taping and calling in to the show.
This piece is also unique in that it appears as though it had to be printed in multiple segments and combined together to create the full image that you see here. This is a photograph of the printed piece.
Over The Edge is a live improvised audio collage program performed by the surviving members of Negativland each week on KPFA, and it still airs to this day. Don joyce passed away a few years ago. You can listen live and check out the show’s archives at https://kpfa.org/program/over-the-edge/ and you can learn about Negativland at negativland.com
Here is a super impressive piece of early pixel art - it’s ‘4 Byte Burger’, by Jack Haege. This image was printed in the September 1985 issue of Amiga World magazine. In order to reproduce the image in the magazine it had to be photographed from a computer monitor. The image was actually displayed sideways, and then the photograph was rotated for printing in the magazine; hence why the scan lines are vertical instead of horizontal.
In 1985, Commodore International hired several top-notch artists to create artwork using their new Amiga personal computer. Much of that artwork was printed in their magazine, Amiga World.
