[HN Gopher] Art Bits from Hypercard ___________________________________________________________________ Art Bits from Hypercard Author : todsacerdoti Score : 29 points Date : 2022-04-21 21:11 UTC (1 hours ago) (HTM) web link (archives.somnolescent.net) (TXT) w3m dump (archives.somnolescent.net) | 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. | | 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. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-04-21 23:00 UTC)