MacPaint Art from the Mid-80s Still Looks Great Today

Re:MacPaint Art from the Mid-80s Still Looks Great Today by gxd on Saturday July 12, 2025 @05:38AM (#44540674)

Awesome! You can also find great art made with Deluxe Paint for the Amiga. The limitations from early computers in resolution and, most importantly, palette, create unique art styles:

https://amiga.lychesis.net/applications/DeluxePaint.html

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Re:MacPaint Art from the Mid-80s Still Looks Great Today by dan-robertson on Saturday July 12, 2025 @07:26AM (#44541253)

These seem worse IMO. Not sure if it’s the medium (eg more saturated colours, the particular website) or if I just like the compositions less.

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Re:MacPaint Art from the Mid-80s Still Looks Great Today by zozbot234 on Saturday July 12, 2025 @07:37AM (#44541316)

They have more color but way less resolution, thus less detail. Pretty much what you would expect to see, given that the original Mac and Amiga came out around the same time.

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Re:MacPaint Art from the Mid-80s Still Looks Great Today by jameshart on Saturday July 12, 2025 @09:37AM (#44541974)

Both Motorola 68000 machines, typically 512K-1024K of RAM. So similar underlying constraints, under which they made very different choices for how to prioritize graphics.

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Re:MacPaint Art from the Mid-80s Still Looks Great Today by vardump on Saturday July 12, 2025 @10:27AM (#44542315)

Weird there were no hires images. Amiga's horizontal hires resolution was >720 pixels.

Of course, in order to get square pixels, you needed to enable interlace as well.

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Re:MacPaint Art from the Mid-80s Still Looks Great Today by justsomehnguy on Saturday July 12, 2025 @12:42PM (#44543222)

The usual case of looking at pictures what was made on and for a CRT monitor (or even TV).

You can try Screenitron to imitate something like this.

https://littlebattlebits.xyz/screenitron

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Re:MacPaint Art from the Mid-80s Still Looks Great Today by pwillia7 on Saturday July 12, 2025 @06:36AM (#44540987)

If you use Stable Diffusion/FLUX -- check out this Deluxepaint LORA[1]. I might make one for these macpaint images too in the near future.

[1]:https://civitai.com/models/875790/amiga-deluxepaint-or-fluxd

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Re:MacPaint Art from the Mid-80s Still Looks Great Today by spankibalt on Saturday July 12, 2025 @07:43AM (#44541353)

"Press button for YOUR instant demoscene imitat". Sad.

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Re:MacPaint Art from the Mid-80s Still Looks Great Today by bitwize on Saturday July 12, 2025 @09:18AM (#44541875)

Relevant: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yaf-yGqdCs8

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Re:MacPaint Art from the Mid-80s Still Looks Great Today by necrosyne on Saturday July 12, 2025 @06:53AM (#44541078)

Please do! This would be amazing

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Re:MacPaint Art from the Mid-80s Still Looks Great Today by keyringlight on Saturday July 12, 2025 @05:50AM (#44540734)

There was an article posted here not too long about with a similar sentiment about the NEC PC-98

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44076501

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Re:MacPaint Art from the Mid-80s Still Looks Great Today by andrepd on Saturday July 12, 2025 @07:18AM (#44541206)

Loved this dive on one such Deluxe Paint piece: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4EFkspO5p4

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Re:MacPaint Art from the Mid-80s Still Looks Great Today by ekianjo on Saturday July 12, 2025 @07:12AM (#44541174)

some better ones here

https://amiga.lychesis.net/applications/AmigaDealer.html

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Re:MacPaint Art from the Mid-80s Still Looks Great Today by mock-possum on Saturday July 12, 2025 @12:21PM (#44543083)

Using colour cycling to achieve animation-like effects is so hot.

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Re:MacPaint Art from the Mid-80s Still Looks Great Today by corysama on Saturday July 12, 2025 @04:23PM (#44544849)

Can't mention that without linking the master of the effect

http://www.effectgames.com/demos/canvascycle/ (hit "Show Options")

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMcJ1Jvtef0

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Re:MacPaint Art from the Mid-80s Still Looks Great Today by p0w3n3d on Sunday July 13, 2025 @04:36AM (#44548601)

The colour palette of Amiga is really appealing to me. I used to love watching game screenshots printed in games magazines available in my country.

That's how I fell in love with Monkey Island and Flashback

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