ZX-Art: ZX Spectrum pixel art collection
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Printed Date: 07 September 2025 at 1:05am
Topic: ZX-Art: ZX Spectrum pixel art collection
Posted By: moroz1999
Subject: ZX-Art: ZX Spectrum pixel art collection
Date Posted: 13 February 2015 at 3:42pm
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Hello everybody! I'm a pixel artist (sort of) and a webmaster of http://zxart.ee/eng - ZX-Art - the biggest collection of ZX Spectrum pixel art. I would like to introduce the archive to Pixel Art professionals like Pixel Joint users. How can be ZX-Art interesting to modern pixel artists? * ZX-Spectrum images (at least classic formats) have a palette of 15 colors and apply to 8*8 char based color restrictions, so this is true pixel art. * The collection is huge: there are different styles ranging from classic game authors to modern demoscene graphics. * The collection is sorted well: we've got http://zxart.ee/eng/graphics/tags/ - tags , http://zxart.ee/eng/graphics/top-100/ - top100 , ratings, detailed search, ingame screenshots, demoparties with best places. So, it can be a huge source of inspiration over 30 years of material.    My purpose is that a hugh online archive like ZX-Art could become a great tool and a source of inspiration for pixel art professionals, and I am ready to make new features and adjustments if anybody would have some great ideas. Is there anybody who would be interested in short periodical updates here, on Pixel Joint Forum? Some of modern ZX Spectrum authors are registered here on Pixel Joint as well, so I'm sure that many works would be familiar to you. |
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Posted By: jalonso
Date Posted: 14 February 2015 at 4:09am
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I will add to the Stray Pixels news post. PM me whenever you have the mentioned periodical shortcuts too so I can post updates as they happen. Submit in the gallery as a link to add to the gallery section. ------------- |
Posted By: moroz1999
Date Posted: 15 February 2015 at 3:21am
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Originally posted by jalonso
I will add to the Stray Pixels news post. PM me whenever you have the mentioned periodical shortcuts too so I can post updates as they happen. Thank you very much! I will PM you as soon as I post something. Originally posted by jalonso Submit in the gallery as a link to add to the gallery section. Sorry, I don't quite understand what gallery do you mean. Do you mean a public queue? |
Posted By: jalonso
Date Posted: 15 February 2015 at 5:06am
In your gallery profile ------------- |
Posted By: moroz1999
Date Posted: 15 February 2015 at 1:35pm
| Thank you for help! |
Posted By: moroz1999
Date Posted: 20 February 2015 at 2:33pm
A gallery of game graphics by http://zxart.ee/eng/graphics/authors/d/dusan-balara/ - Dušan Balara from DSA Computer Graphix has been completed.   I don't know whether this fits the thematics of this forum or not? It's about game author - a remarkable one, if speaking about ZX Spectrum limitations. Dušan pushed ZX Spectrum to it's limits 20 years ago already. |
Posted By: TVercer
Date Posted: 21 February 2015 at 6:05am
| If I ever get money, I WANT YOU IN MY LIFE :o |
Posted By: moroz1999
Date Posted: 28 April 2015 at 8:58am
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Travylle, lol :) http://zxart.ee/eng/parties/2015/multimatograf-11/ - Graphics and music from Multimatograf11 has been added. Watch, listen, vote and comment please! Without feedback there won't be any parties :) |
Posted By: moroz1999
Date Posted: 14 June 2015 at 2:36pm
   For those, who haven't yet noticed: there is now a web-radio on ZX-Art. You can now listen to the best ZX Spectrum music directly in your browser: there is game radio, demoscene radio, 1bit beeper radio and exotic formats like Digital AY and TSFM. You are welcomed to listen!    All works of authors, party entries and detailed search results can now be downloaded as a single archive. NB! Archive preparation for downloading of all works from ZX-Art (about 8000 images or 4000 tunes) can take 1-2 minutes, so please wait a little after pushing a button. Download, spread, make backups - everything is open. Please respect author's licenses where applicable.    We are also publishing the project development road map on five directions. Current top priority is getting rid of some commerce modules and publish the source code of portal to the GitHub under some free license, so anybody would be able to start up his own copy for any non-commercial purposes or even help with ZX-Art development. https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1TR-TmwP4UjjjOISTK4f14T54I0ag48V1GyF-u1sQZOM/edit - GFX Roadmap https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1GBlRpZIlBT85J6y3WTvuffa2scfXGpSBXyWIVKWvAkU/edit - Music roadmap https://drive.google.com/open?id=15gxB57lViCKY2IXKJBnC2zYc7LlKbHiaNQwSpoGGuWA&authuser=0 - Software archive roadmap https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1y9DDXNwuxJziYijridJu3n6zem8IvH1fyGw0tW07ySE/edit - Organizational roadmap https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1KOqk9A7yNw-0vzbW7n67OzpyTgeInVymzCwQVwgVxms/edit - Authors, users, people roadmap |
Posted By: moroz1999
Date Posted: 13 July 2015 at 2:26pm
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http://zxart.ee/eng/parties/2015/dihalt-2015/ - Music and graphics from DiHalt 2015 http://zxart.ee/eng/parties/2015/3bm-openair-2015/ - Music and graphics from 3BM OpenAir 2015 |
Posted By: jalonso
Date Posted: 13 July 2015 at 2:41pm
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+1 ------------- |
Posted By: moroz1999
Date Posted: 16 December 2015 at 1:24pm
http://zxart.ee/eng/parties/2015/artfield-2015/ - Music and graphics from Artfield 2015      A large update of Microhobby Pixel A Pixel restoration, more than 50 unseen restored images are uploaded to compo pages: http://zxart.ee/eng/parties/1986/microhobby-s-pixel-a-pixel/ - http://zxart.ee/eng/parties/1986/microhobby-s-pixel-a-pixel/ http://zxart.ee/eng/parties/1987/microhobby-s-pixel-a-pixel-2/ - http://zxart.ee/eng/parties/1987/microhobby-s-pixel-a-pixel-2/ http://zxart.ee/eng/parties/1988/microhobby-s-pixel-a-pixel-3/ - http://zxart.ee/eng/parties/1988/microhobby-s-pixel-a-pixel-3/ http://zxart.ee/eng/parties/1989/microhobby-s-pixel-a-pixel-4/ - http://zxart.ee/eng/parties/1989/microhobby-s-pixel-a-pixel-4/ http://zxart.ee/eng/parties/1990/microhobby-s-pixel-a-pixel-5/ - http://zxart.ee/eng/parties/1990/microhobby-s-pixel-a-pixel-5/   
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Posted By: moroz1999
Date Posted: 05 March 2016 at 4:25am
Graphics/music from http://zxart.ee/eng/parties/2016/dihalt-lite-2016/ - DiHalt Lite 2016 :   Graphics/music from http://zxart.ee/eng/parties/2016/zx-enhanced-compo-2016/ - ZX Enhanced compo 2016 :    More than 40 restored images from http://zxart.ee/eng/parties/1986/microhobby-s-pixel-a-pixel/ - Microhobby Pixel A Pixel have been added.          The main restoration work has been done by Maria Veide. Without her help this project would have virtually stopped. |
Posted By: yrizoud
Date Posted: 05 March 2016 at 8:07am
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Thanks a lot for sharing this way (taking the time to include images in the post). There are not many answers, because there's not much to answer, but I'm sure I'm not the only one who is very interested every time you post them. |
Posted By: jalonso
Date Posted: 05 March 2016 at 12:35pm
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Originally posted by yrizoud
Thanks a lot for sharing this way (taking the time to include images in the post). There are not many answers, because there's not much to answer, but I'm sure I'm not the only one who is very interested every time you post them. I totally agree. Updates here are always a treat which I always add to Stray News to share with all ------------- |
Posted By: GOOD old SIMPLE troll
Date Posted: 25 March 2016 at 4:43am
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Just my primary source for inspiration.
Try also "World of Spectrum" WOS - http://www.worldofspectrum.org/ |
Posted By: moroz1999
Date Posted: 31 August 2017 at 12:50pm
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ZX-Spectrum works from Chaos Constructions 2017 http://zxart.ee/eng/parties/2017/chaos-constructions-2017 General graphics compo http://zxart.ee/eng/authors/m/moroz1999/gone-with-blastwave-kimmo-lemetti-tribute/">  http://zxart.ee/eng/authors/d/dman/rage1/"> http://zxart.ee/eng/authors/j/joe-vondayl/battle-city/"> http://zxart.ee/eng/authors/r/retro/the-illustrator/">  http://zxart.ee/eng/authors/d/dman/wild-west1/"> http://zxart.ee/eng/authors/v/vassa/moment-of-fear/"> http://zxart.ee/eng/authors/d/dimidrol/drinker/">  Party-related works http://zxart.ee/eng/authors/r/ivan-seleznev/pers02/">  http://zxart.ee/eng/authors/r/ivan-seleznev/pers03/"> http://zxart.ee/eng/authors/r/ivan-seleznev/pers04/"> http://zxart.ee/eng/authors/d/denis-grachev/sibcrew-logo/">  Realtime graphics http://zxart.ee/eng/authors/m/moroz1999/city/">  http://zxart.ee/eng/authors/b/blastoff/sailorfuture/"> http://zxart.ee/eng/authors/s/shuran33/close_town/"> http://zxart.ee/eng/authors/s/shuran33/no_fuel/">  |
Posted By: hseiken
Date Posted: 01 April 2018 at 1:21pm
| AWESOME! Lately I've been on a d/l binge to get inspirational folder for getting ideas when my brain doesn't want to be original. I just got done making a 300MB collection of PC98 graphics...now I'm gonna make one for spectrum. I actually find the spectrum's graphical limitations to be highly interesting because people deal with color clash very differently and it's always a treat to see something that looks good AND handles the color clash elegantly. It looks like a really hard system to make graphics for so anything at all looking good is just mindblowing to me. Good stuff. |