I finally nerdigized my laptop

[matt3o]

I like the stickers on your macbook because of the pixilated style... and because I'm a zelda fan

I love raw aliased pixels and I love the original Zeldas (anything before The Wind Waker)

[ne0phyte]

Bitmap fonts ftw. Pixel perfect, compact and perfectly readable. So nice to the eyes.

[mr_a500]

I've made about 20 bitmap fonts, pixel by pixel. I even manually anti-aliased a few. (the only way to have anti-aliased fonts on an Amiga 500)

I was also an icon artist. It's tricky making good looking icons with only 16 colours in low resolution.

[matt3o]

I've made about 20 bitmap fonts, pixel by pixel. I even manually anti-aliased a few. (the only way to have anti-aliased fonts on an Amiga 500)

I was also an icon artist. It's tricky making good looking icons with only 16 colours in low resolution.

please, do show us something!

[mr_a500]

OK, you asked for it - here's a 16 colour Amiga 500 screenshot:

A500Desktop.png

(DOOM icon left deliberately chunky... for that old DOOM feel)

Another custom font in Amiga text editor:

MicrogoldedA500.PNG

And internet on the Amiga 500 in 16 colours:

A500bikini.png

(16 colours isn't quite enough for good flesh tones )

[ImClueless]

The 16 color bikini shots made me laugh so hard

[Findecanor]

I was also an icon artist. It's tricky making good looking icons with only 16 colours in low resolution.

16 colours? I released an icon set in the MagicWB style, which was only eight colours.
When I started with Linux, I made an 16×16 icon set for a DirOpus-clone for Linux called Gentoo (preceding the Linux distro with the same name). Even though this was in truecolour, there was a lot of hand-antialiasing to get it eligible at such a small scale. I actually used TVPaint under Windows - which had a user interface somewhat similar to DeluxePaint on the Amiga.
Yikes... this was all back in the '90s, but my old Gentooicons are still distributed with the latest bugfix-release of the file manager.

I suppose that you used an expansion card with a faster CPU in your Amiga 500 to have it running smooth with so many extensions..

[mr_a500]

I suppose that you used an expansion card with a faster CPU in your Amiga 500 to have it running smooth with so many extensions..

You suppose correctly. I have a 68020 accelerator - but it's still the 1985 graphics. (I also have a stock A1000 and the graphics look the same - though unusable without the accelerator) I used this A500 as my main computer up to 2008 - internet and everything. (insane, but true)

I'd like to see your 8-colour MagicWB icons. My colour scheme is mostly MagicWB compatible. Maybe you have something I could steal... I mean... borrow.

[matt3o]

I love you guys