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The scruffy teenage hackers of the early homecomputer (demo)scene have grown up!
Here's a happy 50th birthday wish to Trap/Bonzai from The Sarge/Bonzai/Fairlight (@j_ljunggren), on a 40-year old Commodore 64 💖
I'm venturing into new computernerd territory for me, and I need help!
I'm trying to create an abstract, minimalist human shape in as little (6502 assembly) code as possible — less that 256 bytes, to be precise.
What terminology or compression techniques should I RTFM about?
Check out this incredible #36daysoftype series by @typearture. It's beautiful ❤️ and depressing 💔 at the same time.
https://t.co/mKDuLjR2Q8
Unearthing the Quake color font, by @ThomHendrik → https://t.co/SUuyYgjp1u Some fine digital data archaeology going on!
@JudgeDrokk I was reading up on this game thanks to your tweet, came across some more artwork... Apparently, this is where The Wild Wood adventure starts 💖
Mushroom Hunt 🍄 is a cute little text adventure where you try to find all mushrooms growing outside your granny's cottage. Lots of exploration in a beautifully written scene, and awesome PETSCII-style graphics. Beginner-friendly too! 💖
https://t.co/zCgimPgoB1
And finally this cute little couple, "Stroll" by ptoing/Funkentstört. Grandpa dinosaur taking his grandchild for a walk through prehistory microcomputerland 💖
"Phoenix" by Facet/Genesis Project, using only the 16 colors from the regular C64 multicolor palette →
People are still drawing amazing graphics on a 35 year old microcomputer, the Commodore 64. A second thread!
"Raster Split" by Electric/Extend, a 320×200 HiRes image enhanced with border sprites →