Challenging Old School palette.
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Category: Pixel Art
Forum Name: Collaborations/Challenges
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Printed Date: 07 September 2025 at 8:19am
Topic: Challenging Old School palette.
Posted By: Pixel_Outlaw
Subject: Challenging Old School palette.
Date Posted: 15 July 2007 at 6:28pm
Yeah you may be fancy with over a million colors to choose from, but how would you have done in the early days of computer graphics?
 The Project:
Make a picture or sprite using only the colors presented here. It's not as hard as you may think. Let the graphics limitations take the wheel for once. ------------- http://www.shmup-dev.com/forum/"> 
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Posted By: PixelSnader
Date Posted: 15 July 2007 at 6:36pm
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damnit. this looks like some programmers palette.. no skin colour..owell itry ------------- ▄▄█ ▄▄█ ▄█▄ ▄█▄ |
Posted By: Pixel_Outlaw
Date Posted: 15 July 2007 at 6:42pm
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They used to dither #FF5555 and #FFFFFF. 1:1 dither.
I used to love those old Apple IIE games. Before they went weak. ------------- http://www.shmup-dev.com/forum/">
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Posted By: leel
Date Posted: 15 July 2007 at 7:13pm
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so.. this is a collab then? ------------- |
Posted By: Kfuchoin
Date Posted: 15 July 2007 at 7:13pm
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dude we have to use that pallete? cool..
but if it's a old school project you forgot a detail..
the image are 4 bit =P using that pallete =D
i'll see if i work something out ^^ it sounds cool.. but doesn't this need to be in challenge? ------------- may the pixels be with you.. ~Kfuchoin eMo looking for people for an RPG info: http://www.pixeljoint.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4903 |
Posted By: Hatch
Date Posted: 15 July 2007 at 7:28pm
| Isn't this the EGA palette? |
Posted By: Kfuchoin
Date Posted: 15 July 2007 at 7:41pm
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nop this is teh CGA or that's what wiki says ------------- may the pixels be with you.. ~Kfuchoin eMo looking for people for an RPG info: http://www.pixeljoint.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4903 |
Posted By: Hatch
Date Posted: 15 July 2007 at 8:04pm
| Well at least I was close. |
Posted By: PixelSnader
Date Posted: 15 July 2007 at 9:15pm
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its both actually, cuz the EGA default palette is the CGA total palette ------------- ▄▄█ ▄▄█ ▄█▄ ▄█▄ |
Posted By: Hatch
Date Posted: 15 July 2007 at 9:18pm
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Originally posted by Hatch
Well at least I was close. Hence the hilarity of this statement. |
Posted By: Pixel_Outlaw
Date Posted: 15 July 2007 at 9:56pm
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Yeah I thought I posted in the collabs... ------------- http://www.shmup-dev.com/forum/">
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Posted By: Blueberry_pie
Date Posted: 16 July 2007 at 2:05am
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I love this and I am totally going to participate. (moved it to collabs btw) ------------- |
Posted By: PixelSnader
Date Posted: 16 July 2007 at 12:59pm
i'm bored with this now...
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Posted By: Club Beuker
Date Posted: 17 July 2007 at 1:58am
I made this, and then I had enough
 I might finish it some other time
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Posted By: skeddles
Date Posted: 19 July 2007 at 2:13pm
I had my go: ------------- |
Posted By: Pixel_Outlaw
Date Posted: 19 July 2007 at 11:10pm
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I'm going to do something when I get some time away from work. :) ------------- http://www.shmup-dev.com/forum/">
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Posted By: Bawri
Date Posted: 20 July 2007 at 5:47am
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Originally posted by Pixel_Outlaw
Yeah you may be fancy with over a million colors to choose from, but how would you have done in the early days of computer graphics? The Project:
Make a picture or sprite using only the colors presented here. It's not as hard as you may think. Let the graphics limitations take the wheel for once. Lol, plz i r 1bit |
Posted By: FredRJ
Date Posted: 20 July 2007 at 6:05pm
My Attempt... |
Posted By: Blueberry_pie
Date Posted: 21 July 2007 at 3:47pm
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Still working on my piece... It's a mockup. 320x200 resolution and all, just like a real game from those days. Some great stuff posted here so far, by the way. Looking forward to seeing more! ------------- |
Posted By: Blueberry_pie
Date Posted: 23 July 2007 at 1:11pm
whoops double post I enjoyed working with you, palette! We should do this again some time. ------------- |
Posted By: HMC
Date Posted: 23 July 2007 at 3:29pm
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http://pixeljoint.com/pixelart/19434.htm - I've already done this a http://pixeljoint.com/pixelart/22608.htm - few times before . I might try something again later, though. Snot a bad palette. |
Posted By: tocky
Date Posted: 25 July 2007 at 6:24am
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Posted By: PixelSnader
Date Posted: 25 July 2007 at 12:13pm
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thats an interesting concept, i've meddled with that too a bit.
however, the dither pattern in the top sections isnt as effective as a standard grid. why did you choose the circles thing?
also.. bear in mind that the old resolutions were 320x200, so this image would be seen at apporximately 300% (assuming you're on 800x600 or 1024x768) at which point you'd see the dithering much much more. ------------- ▄▄█ ▄▄█ ▄█▄ ▄█▄ |
Posted By: Blueberry_pie
Date Posted: 25 July 2007 at 12:29pm
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EGA supports a variety of resolutions, but I'm fairly sure 320x240 isn't one of them. I think you mean 320x200. ...Just so you'd know. ------------- |
Posted By: PixelSnader
Date Posted: 25 July 2007 at 12:40pm
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you didnt notice a thing..
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Posted By: tocky
Date Posted: 25 July 2007 at 3:08pm
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I used the wierd dither because it makes the contrast a bit more obvious, mostly so that you can see the colours I'd used for each without zoom. I actually made this one first, I was gonna post them both, they just look wierd next to each other:  Those lowcontrast ones are still pretty effective at 3x or 4x, anyway. I just didn't really check before, because it's not easy in paint. EDIT: A much more useful summary of my best findings:  original pallete | red/cyan mixes as grey midtones best hue shifts best desaturations, sorted roughly by luminance |
Posted By: PixelSnader
Date Posted: 25 July 2007 at 5:24pm
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check what? the zoom? you know you can zoom 2 or 4x or resize the image.. right? ------------- ▄▄█ ▄▄█ ▄█▄ ▄█▄ |
Posted By: Kren
Date Posted: 27 July 2007 at 12:29pm
 Thats my try, Inspired by Bluberry_pie, I like how it ended mostly the zombie. |