Posted by stephen-hill 3 days ago
As with any other emulator, you will have to obtain system ROM dumps and disk images of the software you want to run. There is no clear precedent on the legality of acquiring said files through any means, however it's generally believed that you should be in the clear if you dump them yourself from a Mac you own and an original physical copy of the software. Of course, doing so is non-trivial and requires at the very least a working Mac and a way to get files in and out of it (e.g. a SCSI drive emulator that uses an SD card for storage), so it's understandable why virtually everyone resorts to the gray area approach of downloading ROMs instead.
Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ilixa.ebp&...
App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/8bit-photo-lab/id6759910005
/Not the author, just a satisfied user.
If I take something in the public domain and make a derivative work, the original remains in the public domain, and I retain ownership of whatever additions or modifications I created. So I can attach whatever conditions I want to the copying of those additions.
For instance, Disney's "Sleeping Beauty" was protected by copyright when it was released, even though it was based on a centuries-old fairy tale that was in the public domain.
I would never have known it existed and, in some tiny way, my life is better now that I do.
> MacPaint Art From The Mid-80s Still Looks Great Today - https://blog.decryption.net.au/posts/macpaint.html
Previously discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44540402
This masterpiece by an unknown artist might be the best work of hi-res pixel art I have ever seen: https://blog.decryption.net.au/images/macpaint/lesson3d.png
Not unknown. It is signed "G. Clement", for Gerald Clement. The title is "Lesson 3d" because it actually is the third lesson in a tutorial for MacGrid, a software developed by Clement that teached people how to draw in MacPaint.
https://bsky.app/profile/1bitdreams.bsky.social
I see maybe 10 or 15 new pieces of 1-bit art posted on those platforms each week. A couple recent ones:
https://bsky.app/profile/ncesium.bsky.social/post/3miwkrqev5...
https://bsky.app/profile/oddbones.bsky.social/post/3mi7pedpn...
Dig the wave though, upvoted.
EDIT: and I think there's actually an issue... Somehow there are kinda vertical "bands" where the sub-pixel anti-aliasing shifts. Like I've got a few characters looking too green (on the entire vertical), then a band of pixels looking too red. Very strange. Firefox / Linux but others sites don't do that. First time I see those "bands" with a font using sub-pixel AA.
2nd EDIT: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35866283 In that thread from 2023 on the same site, people are noticing the same weird rainbow/banding fx so it's not just my setup ; )
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35866283
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It's a pity this blog was so short lived, I can only see 7 entries and only 2 Hokusai prints. Oh well, my own blogs usually don't fare much better.
It would truly be a shame if somebody appropriated this unicum of a piece.
