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How Photoshop solved working with files larger than can fit into memory
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Extracting the GameBoy ROM from photographs of the die
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Secret colours of the Commodore 64 (2017)
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Every Graphics at Once: Nintendo's Popeye
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Recreating ANSI Art from a Screenshot
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Wolfenstein 3D with a CGA Renderer
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Win16 Retro Development
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Brute Force Colors
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I still use Flash
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That annoying shade of blue (2018)
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Building a PS1 style retro 3D renderer
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Dumping the NEC PC Engine YUV Table
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Working in One Bit
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SNES – Super Mario World Widescreen
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Final Fantasy remasters reignite controversies over pixel art
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Leaving No Pixel Behind: Three Years in Xenia's GPU Emulation
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How I make graphics for retro systems and retro-styled games
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The Treachery of Image Files
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Pico-8: Enabling more than 16 colors on the screen
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Accurate N64 emulation gets resolution upscaling powered by Vulkan (RetroArch)
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In Depth: The Game Boy Printer
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CGA in 1024 Colors – A New Mode: The Illustrated Guide (2015)
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Super Mario Bros. game was just 31 Kilobytes. How's that possible?
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Paint16b: A 16 byte paint program written in 12 lines
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Beware of Transparent Pixels
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Secret colours of the Commodore 64
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Transparency effects in SNES and Genesis games via composite video artifacts
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8-Bit and '8 Bitish' Graphics [video]
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The Sega Saturn and Transparency
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Where do all the bytes come from?
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Doing an HD Remake the Right Way
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How Naughty Dog Fit Crash Bandicoot into 2MB of RAM on the PS1
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Windows 1.01 in Your Browser
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CGA in 1024 Colors – A New Mode: The Illustrated Guide
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1K colours on CGA: How it's done
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Mode X
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The Sad State of High Bit Depth GIMP Color Management
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Fuck the Super Game Boy (2010)
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GameCube Emulation and Pixel Processing Problems
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Why MacPaint's Original Canvas was 416 Pixels Wide
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Fuck the Super Game Boy: Introduction (2010)
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Game Boy / Color Architecture
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Let's compile like it's 1992 (2014)
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How to colorize Game Boy games – Backgrounds
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The Hearts of the Super Nintendo
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Halo 2 in HD: Pushing the Original Xbox to the Limit
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Inside the Super Nintendo cartridges
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An Ode to Deluxe Paint (2023)
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Understanding the design of the the Super Nintendo video system
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The effect of CRTs on pixel art
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How the SNES Graphics System Works
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