A8 Emulator Screenshot Wallpapers

[Third Age]

I have some wallpapers of Atari800Win screenshots.

 

The screenshots are gif images that are 400x240. Each one was expanded 4x5 times to 1600x1200 (area inside Atari screen border expanded from 320x192 to 1280x960).

Scanline and phosphor dot effects were then added. The color saturation is high, but you can always use an image editor to lower it if you want.

 

If anybody wants any of the wallpapers, just let me know.

 

Here are preview gifs of some of them, with more yet to come.

 

Atari Ready:

Blaster:

Boat2:

Boulder Dash 1:

Castle:

Churchill:

Cindy:

Das Omen:

Dragon:

Druid:

[Third Age]

Here are ten more previews of the wallpapers I made.

The last six are screens from a program called Fractal Zoom, which was published in Antic magazine.

 

Fog:

Gate:

Griffin:

GTIA Rainbow:

Julia8 (monitor):

Julia8 (NTSC):

Julia9:

Julia10:

Julia11:

Julia15:

[Third Age]

Here are yet 10 more previews.

 

Again, if you want any of the wallpapers I made from these gifs, just let me know and I'll post them for you.

 

Keys:

Lady:

Lake:

Landscape - Flight:

Landscape - Title:

Madonna:

Model:

Mounts:

Night:

Pencils:

[svenski]

cool pics, thanks for sharing. The Das Omen shot has brought back some memories!

[Third Age]

You're quite welcome!

 

As I stated before, I made wallpapers of each of these with scanlines and phosphor dot effects.

Here's one example at 1600x1200 (1280x960 inside border):

 

 

Critiques/comments?

[unholy]

Looking good. I like the scanline/raster effects. Would you mind sharing your process?

[+wood_jl]

 

This one is the best. (See my avatar)

 

Can you make one in 1600x1200?

 

Edit: The color may be a little too greenish. See my avatar again.

Edited March 27, 2011 by wood_jl

[Third Age]

Looking good. I like the scanline/raster effects. Would you mind sharing your process?

 

No problemo.

First, I load the gif(s) and 2 other image files into my image editor. After I resize the gif(s), I copy/paste the 2 other images as 2 new layers for each gif. One layer has a transparent background with solid horizontal black lines (1 pixel high, every 5 rows), which I then blur a little. The other added layer is made of solid vertical lines (1 pixel wide, red/green/blue/black), whose opacity I then set at around 50 percent. Some tweaking here and there, and then I save (usually as a png).

[Third Age]

 

This one is the best. (See my avatar)

 

Can you make one in 1600x1200?

 

Edit: The color may be a little too greenish. See my avatar again.

 

Here you go!

 

Atari READY ( hue 8 ).gif (400x240):

Atari READY ( hue 8 ).png (1600x1200):

[Third Age]

Here's the next batch of 10 preview gifs.

As you may have guessed by the alphabetical nature of the posts, only a few more remain.

 

Pharao:

Pharaoh (fixed):

Plane:

Saturn:

Snow:

Space2:

Spidey:

Star Wars:

StepKing:

TheCove2:

[Third Age]

Here are 5 more preview gifs and a bonus.

Note that Winston is in graphics mode 8, while Churchill is in mode 15.

 

Voyager8:

Voyager9:

Walk:

Winston:

XE130:

 

I have started a restoration project for user-created images submitted to Antic magazine.

 

Here's one for an image called Shuttle Down, by Scott Berfield. He sketched it using a program he wrote call GTIA Sketchpad. Both the program and the image are in the December 1983 issue of Antic.

 

Here's the magazine scan:

Here's the gif I did (400x240):

And here's the wallpaper (1600x1200):

[+wood_jl]

 

This one is the best. (See my avatar)

 

Can you make one in 1600x1200?

 

Edit: The color may be a little too greenish. See my avatar again.

 

Here you go!

 

Atari READY ( hue 8 ).gif (400x240):

Atari READY ( hue 8 ).png (1600x1200):

 

Thanks, you're the man!

 

Trouble is, I have too many garbage icons all over the desktop. Have to move them to see "READY" lol

 

 

[+wood_jl]

Do the one of the toilet with the lid up, and the C64 emblem on inside of the lid, "Commode Door 64." Remember that one? It was a Micropainter/Microillustrator file, from back in the ol' rivalry days.

[Third Age]

Do the one of the toilet with the lid up, and the C64 emblem on inside of the lid, "Commode Door 64." Remember that one? It was a Micropainter/Microillustrator file, from back in the ol' rivalry days.

 

I looked and looked, but I just couldn't find it!

 

What about this for some bathroom humor?

 

Don't get me wrong. I take this image to mean that Atari graphics were ba--ss (pun intended)!

[+Allan]

Can you do some of the GTIA screens like this one?

 

Allan

[YoshiMatt]

 

Trouble is, I have too many garbage icons all over the desktop. Have to move them to see "READY" lol

 

 

@Third Age: Thanks, been meaning to find or make the "READY" wallpaper myself. Love the CRT effect

 

@wood_jl, et al: Hopefully I'm not stepping on ThirdAge's toes but I took the liberty of modifying the above file for a full-screen HD aspect ratio for myself, so I'm sharing it here. I also tweaked the color to closer reflect my 800XL experience Plus, I repositioned "READY" to accommodate two rows of icons. I'm also attaching a layered 1920x1080 Photoshop file allowing to easily reposition the "READY" wherever, along with a adjustment layer for the color.

 

wallpaper_a8_ready.zip

[LYNXGUY]

 

This one is the best. (See my avatar)

 

Can you make one in 1600x1200?

 

Edit: The color may be a little too greenish. See my avatar again.

 

Here you go!

 

Atari READY ( hue 8 ).gif (400x240):

Atari READY ( hue 8 ).png (1600x1200):

 

Why does the top image seem so much smoother than the bottom image ??

The blue in the top image is perfect but the blue in the bottom image is dark ??

 

I would love the top image to be 600 x 800 or the next size up.

 

thanks

[Third Age]

Hey guys!

 

Before I get to business as usual...

 

 

@Allan: Here you go!

 

@YoshiMatt: Yer quite welcome, and a good job at the modified wallpaper too!

 

@LYNXGUY: The gifs are unmodified screenshots, whereas the pngs have image effects added to them, to make them appear like they are being viewed on a CRT screen. There are images of scanlines and phosphor dots in them. Did you want a wallpaper 800 pixels wide by 600 high, or 600 wide and 800 high? And would you like scanlines and/or phosphor dots in it?

 

 

Here are more magazine scans of images submitted to Antic magazine. These ones were done using a program called Keystroke Artist. The gifs were done by me as part of my restoration project for these works of art.

NOTE: The images in the magazine are photographs of monitor screens, and so have some blue added to them by that process. This is why my gifs have some of the blue taken out.

 

Cheetah - scan:

Cheetah - restored:

Early Spring - scan:

Early Spring - restored:

Keystroke Artist - scan:

Keystroke Artist - restored:

Night Flight - scan:

Night Flight - restored:

[Third Age]

By request...

 

See post #9 in this thread for Atari READY wallpaper. Here are Lady and Model.

 

 

 

Enjoy!

[+wood_jl]

Is that Christy Brinkley?

[Third Age]

Is that Christy Brinkley?

 

I don't know. Maybe someone here knows or could research the answer? I'm too tired to think.

[Roydea6]

Looking good. I like the scanline/raster effects. Would you mind sharing your process?

 

No problemo.

First, I load the gif(s) and 2 other image files into my image editor. After I resize the gif(s), I copy/paste the 2 other images as 2 new layers for each gif. One layer has a transparent background with solid horizontal black lines (1 pixel high, every 5 rows), which I then blur a little. The other added layer is made of solid vertical lines (1 pixel wide, red/green/blue/black), whose opacity I then set at around 50 percent. Some tweaking here and there, and then I save (usually as a png).

 

Could you also share the 2 layers with us.

[Third Age]

Looking good. I like the scanline/raster effects. Would you mind sharing your process?

 

No problemo.

First, I load the gif(s) and 2 other image files into my image editor. After I resize the gif(s), I copy/paste the 2 other images as 2 new layers for each gif. One layer has a transparent background with solid horizontal black lines (1 pixel high, every 5 rows), which I then blur a little. The other added layer is made of solid vertical lines (1 pixel wide, red/green/blue/black), whose opacity I then set at around 50 percent. Some tweaking here and there, and then I save (usually as a png).

 

Could you also share the 2 layers with us.

 

Here ya go!

 

 

What I usually do (in Paint Shop Pro 12) is as follows:

(1) Resize gif(s) 4x5 times from 400x240 to 1600x1200, then blur gif(s).

(2) Soften image of scanlines, select all/copy/paste it as a new layer on top of the resized gif(s), and set blend mode of layer to Soft Light.

(3) Select entire image of phosphor aperture, copy/paste it as new layer on top of scanline layer, set blend mode of layer to Overlay, and set opacity of layer to 50 percent.

(4) Save the entire thing!

 

I have also skipped the softening of the scanlines when I wanted the image to appear sharper, like a 320x192 image would on a monitor.

Other times, I've done more blurring than normal to various parts when I wanted to show 320x192 NTSC television artifacting.

I've done other tweaks, but you get the idea.

[svenski]

Great work, many thanks.

[Roydea6]

I have also skipped the softening of the scanlines when I wanted the image to appear sharper, like a 320x192 image would on a monitor.

Other times, I've done more blurring than normal to various parts when I wanted to show 320x192 NTSC television artifacting.

I've done other tweaks, but you get the idea.

 

Thank You!

 

These are nice effects...