[HN Gopher] Art Bits from Hypercard
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Art Bits from Hypercard
Author : todsacerdoti
Score : 29 points
Date : 2022-04-21 21:11 UTC (1 hours ago)
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| buescher wrote:
| At the time I really didn't care for that neo-victorian junk
| drawer aesthetic but now it makes me nostalgic too.
| tus666 wrote:
| People say that Apple was lost in the 90s. Yet there is/was
| something special about the kind of art and software that emerged
| on the platform like this. It was very different to what was
| available elsewhere, and had a strong "mac culture" feel to it.
| It's a shame it ended really.
| paisawalla wrote:
| Yes, Mac developers tended to focus only on that platform, and
| a large portion of its user base was on monochrome for a long
| time. Therefore, you had a sizeable group of artists and devs
| who got developed strong techniques for monochrome art.
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| Comparatively, on PC I never saw CGA graphics which I didn't
| think were anything but compromised EGA images, which were
| themselves degraded from VGA images etc. Did anyone else play
| Prince of Persia on a CGA display?
| leephillips wrote:
| As the author points out, there is some serious talent on
| display here--doing so much with two colors (literally black
| and white, not greyscale).
| marginalia_nu wrote:
| The minimalist line-art style was fairly fashionable in the
| '80s and early '90s, with people like Keith Haring making a
| big splash. His work was visually distinct from what's on
| display here, but I think the two are not entirely unrelated.
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