oky2000 Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 Hey does anyone still have the A8 picture of the coloured pencils drawn horizontally? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Stephen Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 I have these two from the C64 argument - they are done vertically and therefore don't have the typical 256 colour Atari rainbow.Pencil.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Stephen Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 Ah - here is the nice horizontal one. Horizontal Pencils.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
José Pereira Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 http://atariage.com/forums/topic/134852-atari-v-commodore/page-221 Imagine where I found it? What other place than here you would find it!... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roydea6 Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 PENCILS.BAS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oky2000 Posted January 25, 2014 Author Share Posted January 25, 2014 http://atariage.com/forums/topic/134852-atari-v-commodore/page-221 Imagine where I found it? What other place than here you would find it!... All I can see is the flickr banner saying image is no longer available for the horizontal pencils Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oky2000 Posted January 25, 2014 Author Share Posted January 25, 2014 Ah - here is the nice horizontal one. Horizontal Pencils.zip Thanks, managed to run it in the emulator, take a screenshot and convert the PCX to PNG 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atx4us Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 (edited) PENCILS.BAS Really cool demo! Program listing says "Antic Publishing". Does anyone know in which Antic issue this demo was printed? Thanks. Edited January 25, 2014 by atx4us Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roydea6 Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 (edited) Really cool demo! Program listing says "Antic Publishing". Does anyone know which Antic issue this demo was printed? Thanks. Antic Magazine (1985-06)(Side B).atr Title says it all 1985 6th Month Edited January 25, 2014 by rdea6 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atx4us Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 I downloaded the Antic Magazine June, 1985 but did not find the article for this program. It must have been "program only" on the distribution diskette. I was interested in learning how the program works. Magazine link: http://www.atarimania.com/mags/pdf/Antic_Vol_4_No_2.pdf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Stephen Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 I downloaded the Antic Magazine June, 1985 but did not find the article for this program. It must have been "program only" on the distribution diskette. I was interested in learning how the program works. Magazine link: http://www.atarimania.com/mags/pdf/Antic_Vol_4_No_2.pdf Should be straight forward code - set up a display list with an interrupt on each scanline which increments one of the colour registers. Similar to the ever present "Atari Rainbow" effect, but this one of course is static. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oky2000 Posted January 25, 2014 Author Share Posted January 25, 2014 (edited) It's a really effective way of showing programmers how they should have viewed the facilities. Most converted games never used anything like the amount of DLI palette colour swaps that would have benefited regular bitmapped colours IMO. You have the palette colour choices there, if you don't use them they are wasted. I've attached the image (300% pixel resize for viewing comfort) so it won't get lost now Edited January 25, 2014 by oky2000 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+CharlieChaplin Posted January 26, 2014 Share Posted January 26, 2014 Well, you can also find the pencils in various old(er) demos, e.g.: - the Discape demo by Anthony Ramos - Grafik und Sound Demo by Peter Sabath (two versions, the older one shows the pencils, the newer one just plays with the rainbow-colours) Andreas Koch. Discape.zip psabath.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Stephen Posted January 26, 2014 Share Posted January 26, 2014 Here's two screenshots from an old Vulcan Software disc (GR1) I got in the mid/late 80s. Vulcan GR-1.atr Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oky2000 Posted January 26, 2014 Author Share Posted January 26, 2014 I like the pencils picture because it legitimizes the case for 8 bit graphics as an art form even using very early 1980s tech in peoples homes. To me it's no less amazing as the pictures from SiGraph 80-83 created with mainframes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oky2000 Posted March 7, 2021 Author Share Posted March 7, 2021 Pencils are from about half way down page 221 onward for a few pages showing different combinations of horizontally and vertically drawn coloured pencils and different ways each machine could draw them (with and without CPU assistance etc). (seeing as this is linked to from the thread just locked might as well tell people where they actually are in that massive thread topic) 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Stephen Posted March 7, 2021 Share Posted March 7, 2021 Pencils are apropos, since they are made of wood. Wooden rods can be considered sticks, and plenty of people here have massive sticks that need surgically removed from their asses. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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