Dramatic artwork from the programming manual to which classic home computer?

Posted by jezleather@reddit | vintagecomputing | View on Reddit | 12 comments

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tekno23@reddit

Fish, plankton, sea greens, and protein from the sea. type of carousel?

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Mr_Salmon_Man@reddit

I grew up copying code from that exact book.

Well, not that exact book, that one is yours. The one I used was my dad's.

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eat10souvlakis4lunch@reddit

"Where's the cursor? Where's the eraser?"

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ah that old 80s illustration school -- drawing amazing pictures for cassette inlays and book covers. then you turn on your computer, load up a game, and you’re hit with a dozen monochrome pixels the size of a madagascar cockroach

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PhotonicEmission@reddit

Is that painted by John Harris?

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jezleather@reddit (OP)

It is! I just checked inside...

"Front cover illustration by John Harris of Young Artists specially commissioned by Sinclair Research Limited"

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PhotonicEmission@reddit

He's a prolific sci-fi artist. Quite a few book publishers use his work for generic pretty covers. Like... Enders Game (and the sequels) and Old Man's War, off the top of my head.

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Outside-Storage-1523@reddit

Back then people need a lot of imagination to play and make games for 8-bit machines. Nowadays it's all there, saturating the senses. It's a lot easier to go from simple to complex, but much harder to appreciate simplicity the other way around. Kids today need to be protected from so many things, TVs, smart devices, computers...because everything on those devices are either saturated for maximum consumption, or filled with Ads and F2P schemes.

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