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   LikesOldMacs (likesoldmacs@bitbang.social)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Mar-2023 08:14:27 JST LikesOldMacs

   Question! Does anyone know if there is an extant macpaint file of the iconic hello?

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     Mr.Nuclear Monster (mrnuclearmonster@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 24-Mar-2023 12:13:39 JST Mr.Nuclear Monster

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     • Blake Patterson

     @blakespot is there a way to download a highest quality version of this scan? I love it

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     feld (feld@bikeshed.party)'s status on Friday, 24-Mar-2023 12:13:39 JST feld

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     • Mr.Nuclear Monster
     That's the largest resolution I can find of it but something makes me think it has been edited to clean it up and brighten it too. Vs this one
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     Blake Patterson (blakespot@oldbytes.space)'s status on Friday, 24-Mar-2023 12:13:41 JST Blake Patterson

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     • PierreNick :apple_old_logo: 💾

     @pierrenick @likesoldmacs

     It's interesting -- during the development of the Amiga, artists were contracted to come in and draw impressive and demonstrative digital art using versions of the first Amiga drawing program, "Graphicraft," so early on in its development that file operations had yet to be implemented. The drawings were completed, photographed by Commodore, and then lost to the ether when the system was powered off.

     It's amazing to contemplate, so groundbreaking were some of these works, carried out on a $1,295 consumer-oriented computer in 1985.

     One such example is "Four-Byte Burger" by Jack Haeger, here scanned from one of the Amiga 1000's manual covers.

     https://www.flickr.com/photos/blakespot/50926604693/in/album-72157604421303889/

     Note the CRT scanlines in the image ... and their orientation.

     #Amiga #Mac #vintageAmiga #vintageMac #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #pixelart

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     PierreNick :apple_old_logo: 💾 (pierrenick@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 24-Mar-2023 12:13:42 JST PierreNick :apple_old_logo: 💾

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     @likesoldmacs Sadly it looks like it was never saved.

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     feld (feld@bikeshed.party)'s status on Friday, 24-Mar-2023 22:49:34 JST feld

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     • Mr.Nuclear Monster
     i'm sure more can be done but here it is blown up