Atari pencils pic

[oky2000]

Hey does anyone still have the A8 picture of the coloured pencils drawn horizontally?

[+Stephen]

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

[+Stephen]

Ah - here is the nice horizontal one.

Horizontal Pencils.zip

[José Pereira]

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!...

[+Roydea6]

PENCILS.BAS

[oky2000]

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

[oky2000]

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

[atx4us]

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

[+Roydea6]

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

[atx4us]

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

[+Stephen]

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.

[oky2000]

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

[+CharlieChaplin]

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

[+Stephen]

Here's two screenshots from an old Vulcan Software disc (GR1) I got in the mid/late 80s.

 

Vulcan GR-1.atr

 

 

[oky2000]

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.

[oky2000]

 

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)

[+Stephen]

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.

[CPUWIZ]