Tag: C64 Graphics

Albert – A new graphic editor for the C64 by Hokuto Force

Coded by the mighty Luigi Di Fraia, aka The Chaos Engineer, a new pixel editor built from the ground up with a streamlined UI/UX reached the public beta phase and can be downloaded from CSDb today. Besides the usual design tools like Fill, Draw, Select and Move (some still not available), which you can find in many different editors, Albert…

Commodore 64 Graphics Slide Show – April 2019 – A virtual visit to an art gallery!

While The best of Commodore 64 Demoscene video for April releases might be a bit delayed because of my trip to VCF East, we are launching this month another surprise for all the retro computing enthusiasts: a slide show displaying all graphics releases from last month. The C64 community has been releasing astounding illustrations for many years and for a…

Game Art Beyond – How iconic C64 game title screens could have been!

Among the many CSDb releases that show up every day, sometimes we see something that stands out for many reason. It can be technical excellence, skilled coding, or beautiful art. Sometimes there are some that excel on all of above! That’s the case of Game Art Beyond by Bliss. The program itself is a slide show that presents incredible graphics…

CSDb Commodore 64 PETSCII Graphics Competition 2017

It is happening on CSDb (Commodore Scene Database), from 9 to 23 of October, a competition to find the best PETSCII graphics. As the name suggests, the participants can only rely on PETSCII characters to draw any kind of illustrations. Although it is low resolution, the results are incredible. As people say, a good artist can work with any tool and…