#Retrospecs

Retrospecsretrospecs
2025-06-05

Hatched

(Custom per-pixel emulation using Nintendo Gameboy (Daylight) palette. 60x240, 4∶1 pixel ratio.)

Created in for - 8bitartwork.co.uk

An abstract image consisting of light and dark green areas of checkerboards horizontal lines of varying density. The image is low resolution and heavily pixelated.
Retrospecsretrospecs
2025-03-04

Embrace

(Custom per-pixel emulation using Desert palette. 136x128, Bayer 8x8 dithering.)

Created in for - 8bitartwork.co.uk

An abstract image consisting of light and dark red areas of what appears to be a folded piece of material. The image is low resolution and heavily pixelated, with very obvious signs of dithering.
Retrospecsretrospecs
2025-02-27

Experiencing further degradation

Hope you’re all surviving out there. 🫡

(Custom per-pixel emulation using custom palette. 320x240)

Created in for - 8bitartwork.co.uk

An image of a skull, rendered in pixel art in an off-white colour against a dark background. Sections of the image are missing or appear to be corrupted.
Retrospecsretrospecs
2025-01-18

Monkey, puzzled

(Custom character emulation using Circlex character set and Nintendo Gameboy Color T1 Reverse palette. 256x192.)

Created in for - 8bitartwork.co.uk

An abstract image composed of letters from a custom character pixel font consisting of various low-resolution geometric shapes and checkerboards. The overall impression is of a mass of yellow and black mechanical parts sitting on the left-hand side of the foreground against the backdrop of a clear, teal coloured sky.
Retrospecsretrospecs
2024-12-23

Tree ‘n shit. Innit.

Created in for - 8bitartwork.co.uk.

A decorated Christmas tree, with presents around the base, presented in chunky low-resolution, with very large, obvious pixels.
Retrospecsretrospecs
2024-11-18

If you go down to the woods today…

(ZX Spectrum (Bright only). Bayer 8x8 dithering.)

Created in for - 8bitartwork.co.uk.)

An image of Bruce Campbell from The Evil Dead 2, as it would appear on a Sinclair ZX Spectrum microcomputer from the 1980s. The image is rendered in bright, primary colours with clearly visible dithering and consists of a close-up of a screaming face.
CTDCTD
2024-11-16

Phoning home

(Custom per-pixel emulation using Doomed palette. 256x192, 2∶3 pixel ratio, Bayer 8x8 dithering.)

Created in for - 8bitartwork.co.uk.)

A child wearing a crown-shaped hat is sitting on the floor, playing with a toy phone. The child is dressed in orange and striped clothing.
Retrospecsretrospecs
2024-11-16

Time for tea time time

(Custom per-pixel emulation using Afternoon palette. 80x160, 2∶1 pixel ratio, Bayer 8x8 dithering.)

Created in for - 8bitartwork.co.uk.)

A low-resolution, heavily dithered image of a cup of tea, consisting of clearly visible, chunky double-width pixels. The cup is shown in 3/4 top-down view and is sitting on a grey background. It contains tea.
Retrospecsretrospecs
2024-11-13

Approaching Blobulon-4

(ZX Spectrum (Dim only), Bayer 2x2 dithering.)

Created in for - 8bitartwork.co.uk

An abstract low-resolution image in bright primary colours, consisting of a mix of large yellow, red, green and white blobs on a black background, with heavy dithering evident in the areas where the blobs intersect.
Retrospecsretrospecs
2024-11-10

Unresolved case

(Apple Macintosh, Atkinson dithering.)

Created in for - 8bitartwork.co.uk

A heavily dithered black & white image of a blurry security camera frame, showing a manic faced milk-carton shaped figurine with some desk knick-knacks in the background.
2019-05-12

Custom PETSCII setting with #retrospecs beta /cc @8bitartwork

Retrospecsretrospecs
2024-10-18

All spooky and shit.

(Custom character emulation using Diet PETSCII character set and Arne ZXArne, palette. 320x360)

Created in for - 8bitartwork.co.uk

A pac-man style ghost rendered from text characters in a limited colour palette.
Retrospecsretrospecs
2024-09-30

Deeper still

(Custom character emulation using Sabine character set. 320x240)

Created in for - 8bitartwork.co.uk

Original animation by instagram.com/pachon.in.motion

Retrospecsretrospecs
2024-09-29
The frontage of a building with a protruding balcony in sunlight. Light is shining in the front of the balcony and through a side window onto the adjacent wall. Rendered in a limited colour palette (yellow, red, black and white) with significant visible dithering.
Retrospecsretrospecs
2024-09-22

Wolf and steam

(Custom attribute emulation using Twilioquest 76 palette. 320x200)

Created in for - 8bitartwork.co.uk

A blocky, distorted rendition of a screen grab from the Id Software classic “Wolfenstein 3D”.
Retrospecsretrospecs
2024-09-20

They're waiting for you, Gordon

(Custom character emulation using Diet PETSCII character set and Bubblegum16 palette. 640x480)

Created in for - 8bitartwork.co.uk

An image composed of text characters in a limited colour palette of a blue, purple and red/orange. Whilst somewhat abstract, the image just discernible as being from the classic “Half-Life” PC game, with the protagonist wielding a crowbar as two mutilated scientists approach.
Retrospecsretrospecs
2024-09-19

Knee deep

(Custom character emulation using 12-bit palette, 128x480, 4∶1 pixel ratio.)

Created in for - 8bitartwork.co.uk

A semi-abstract image composed of graphical checkerboard text characters in a wide variety of colours. Whilst very blocky and somewhat abstract, the image just discernible as being gameplay from the first level of the classic “Doom” PC game.
Retrospecsretrospecs
2024-09-01

Two for the price of three

(Custom character emulation using PET character set and Dawnbringer 16 palette. 200x320, 2∶1 pixel ratio.)

Created in for - 8bitartwork.co.uk

An image composed of characters from the Commodore PET microcomputer from the 1970s. Whilst very blocky and somewhat abstract, the image is of a milk-carton with eyes, arms and a large smiling mouth.

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