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How "oldschool" graphics worked Part 1 - Commodore and Nintendo

Name: How "oldschool" graphics worked Part 1 - Commodore and Nintendo
Description: The 8-Bit Guy explains the color limitations of 1980s computers and consoles such as the NES and Commodore 64. It shows how sprites, attributes and palettes shaped the look of old games.

The 8-Bit Guy

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Recommended as a clear, approachable explanation of how retro graphics hardware actually worked.

The 8-Bit Guy explains the color limitations of 1980s computers and consoles such as the NES and Commodore 64. It shows how sprites, attributes and palettes shaped the look of old games.

“The 8-Bit Guy has some great videos about how graphics worked on the older systems” (HN, 2015)

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@corysama Dec 2015 Recommends

on HN thread Where do all the bytes come from?

You would like this: "How 'oldschool' graphics worked Part 1 - Commodore and Nintendo" [this video]

Explains how oldschool Commodore and Nintendo graphics worked

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@OSButler Dec 2015 Recommends

on HN thread Description of classic and modern C64 graphic modes

The 8-Bit Guy has some great videos about how graphics worked on the older systems (including C=64): [this video]

Great videos on how graphics worked on older systems

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@valtism Mar 2019 Recommends

on HN thread Oldschool planar graphics and why they were a good idea

I believe that this is the same techniques that were covered in the excelent series "How oldschool graphics worked"[1] [1] [this video]

Series covering the same oldschool graphics techniques

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@dannypgh Sep 2019 Recommends

on HN thread Tutorial series for simulating NES Graphics (2018)

This is a nice companion to [this video] which deals with more technical details of the implementation of NES and C64 graphics. This document reads like requirements to that video's design.

Technical details of NES and C64 graphics implementation

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@jimmies Jun 2018 Cites it

on HN thread Not Only Is the Mac Mini Outdated, It's No Longer Mini

Yeah, this illustration is what can be done in PPT in 5 minutes to explain how adding more layers/data can filter noise from signal, when I don't think it will take 5 minutes for me to write a LaTEX code that does the same. That's not counting Powerpoint does allow me to draw lines and stuff easily on a canvas. If I want to do it in LaTEX, I probably will need to draw that diagram on a separate program and import it back. [link] Sorry, the slide is clipped for some reason, but that's because I don't know how to configure OBS. It's not the best illustration ever, but you probably get the idea. Here is an animation that isn't mine and I think it's really well done to explain a hard idea (not necessarily in PPT): [this video]

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