Thx for trying the CPC palette, wish more would give it a try, and it is a clever use of it.

I posted this Picture at CPCwiki's forum and clearly it is topnotch use of CPC capabilities.

would you be interested into doing a whole tile and sprites set that may actually be used by a real Amstrad CPC ?

here the link to forum's topic, sorry if you don't want me to post this picture...

http://www.cpcwiki.eu/forum/other-retro/proof-that-the-commodre-64-palette-is-far-superior-to-the-amstrad-cpc/msg121924/#new

Basically the 640x200x8 video mode on NEC PC8xxx was considered an actual 320x200x27... the fine dithering of the basic RGB 8 colours producing the Amstrad CPC palette.

CPC can display in fullscreen in 192x256 so you can actually turn the 640x200x8 graphics from NEC PC8xxx into 320x200x27 graphics (just divide the horizontal resolution by two and merge the colours) that can then be put (only the graphic parts) into a CPC screens of 192x256... can actually even use double vertical pixels so it would be somewhat 192x128 with big square pixels... may need then to reduce the colours a bit or use rasters (well, snatcher graphics in 320x200 screens would rarely really use all the 27 pseudo colours actually).

ingames parts of Snatcher on NEC PC-88 would most often only display a 384x120 (ratio 1x2) graphic zone... so yeah a CPC can totally put that, just in bigger screen and idéally it would need to redo the pixels on every lines in two to accomodate the inverted pixel ratio of 2x1 in Mode0 on CPC.

To get it into a real game would need extra RAM and IDE SSD/card... most probably but those are now easily available actually.

http://img110.xooimage.com/files/2/d/f/montage-ports-11-4ea16dc.png

Thx for the comment.

Actually "Dark Cyan", I tried some pseudo-marble effect but I guess some black lines could have added more contrast to those rings... Amstrad CPC palette is quite hard to chose especially in Mode1 (4 colours) and really this was the palette that looked best on real CRT monitor for this sort of composition. got to account for this palette's limitations anyway.

This composition was improvised at the party ex-nihilo in one day. On real Amstrad CPC + CRT screen, you really get extra colours via ditherings.

You can find the result from the Demoparty here and there  :

http://reset.pushnpop.net/vote.php

http://pushnpop.net/parties-88.html

enjoy.

Nice one, I really appreciate as a french amstradist...

Brink : you should come to our Amstrad forums... tu es le bienvenu.

PS : i would have used orange for the door and the "earth" instead of pink...

Nice and efficient to bring inner peace and meditation.

nice job on the warty skin and  the eyes.

Really impressive.

 More like Mecha-Gojila.

Now get some Mecha King Guidora ?

 That's 1 too much i Guess to make it Amiga500 friendly.

May even have been done in true EGA : 640x350x16 ... with a few ditherings I guess, but yeah, odd pixel ratio in EGA "hi-res".

Nice job anyway.

 Wow, that's great...

The sprites look like they're using the Amstrad CPC palette...

 Good old Rastan saga flavour...

 How many colours ?

 Golden Axe !!! (sort of)

 Nice Macinotsh or Atari ST hi res monocolour mode styled graphic... (or even hercules).

 Then I stand corrected, thx for the precisions prof4d.

 You can't really call this "speccy"...

Not sure a real speccy48 could actually display the picture like that, I don't remember the speccy palette having a real orange per exemple... I suppose it use flickering screens... so on a real hardware this would be heavily epyleptic to watch.

But otherwise nice picture.

 The comics styled inked feeling is not suitable for too much ditherings I guess.

On those old computers in 320x200, the Black can dither with every other colours, was a good way to get a darker shade, also on a real CRT monitor such fine ditherings are rendered quite smoothly and really looks like extra colours, but on modern flat monitors, the pixels are far too precise to have the real stuff.

All of you should try to see a real Amstrad CPC on its real CRT monitor, it could surprise you all.

It is still technically pixel art because it is actually done on an real 8 bit machine, hence limitations in resolutions and colours, which are the real definition of pixel art.

Pixel Art is defined in opposition to the HiRes & True Colour format (and also the whole 3D generation of the pictures/display) from modern computers.

Younger ones seem to have forgot where it actually come from.

Anything done on a Amstrad CPC is technically "Pixel Art"... well, concerning the "Art" aspect, it can vary.

Also, to use a "draw circle" function from your paint/photoshop means what you do is no more pixel art ?

I don't think so.

Here it is something like procedural Pixel art.

My PC have 2 different screens and they differ a bit too.

I also tried my many Amstrad CPC/PLUS monitors and the result can vary greatly from individual computer or monitor to different ones.

Old Electronic is old and wasn't accutely tuned perfectly. human eyes can't really make that much difference anyway.

Nice to see you post all your productions here, CeD. 

Hola CeD...

You should try to use less colours, 43 colours is completely too much for this kind of graphic and it looses the "pixel art" effect :

= never use .jpg format... always png or bmp...

= try to compensate less colours with more ditherings.

= think like you were using an old machine (Atari ST...)

and so on, otherwise it's not bad at all.

is this the 4th power by Jimenez/jodorowski ?

well done anyway.

44 colours ? I doubt it is Speccy...

Doesn't look bad though.

Lol actually it is Netherland Vlaams master painter, not italian... Rembrandt...

Nothing to actually "emulate"...

You can use Graphix2 with an "Amstrad CPC" friendly setting per exemple.

You just need to be accurate with the palette, the "video modes" too : resolution, number of colours and pixel ratio.

And that's it mostly, perhaps you can also put some video tricks to have more colours onb screen (Rasters, split rasters ,etc...).

You can find most informations at CPCwiki, there :

http://cpcwiki.eu/index.php/Video_modes