Retrospecs

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A pixel art image processing app for iOS https://8bitartwork.co.uk/ Retrospecs lets you convert images and video clips so they appear as they would on a variety of home computers and consoles from the 70's, 80's and 90's.

A screenshot of the Pixel Processor macOS app, showing a window that consists of a large image preview area alongside a complex set of UI controls. The image preview area is filled with a heavily pixelated image of a Magic 8-ball sitting on a desk.
A pixelated birthday cake.
An abstract image composed of letters from a custom character pixel font consisting of various low-resolution geometric shapes and checkerboards.
An image of Boris Karloff as Frankenstein’s monster, rendered in a limited colour palette with extensive dithering. The image depicts a close up of a man’s gnarled head, with scaring visible.There’s also the whole “visible bolts in the neck” thing.
An abstract Christmas tree made from a limited graphical character set. The tree is primarily in black against a bright red background, with some bright characters at the edge, where the lights would usually be.
A deserted street scene with two rows of buildings disappearing into distance. The image is rendered in low resolution in the IBM EGA sixteen colour palette, with obvious pixels and dithering visible.
An image of Peter Finch as the newscaster Howard Beale in the 1976 film Network. It depicts a man in his late middle age standing in front of multiple clocks with his hands in the air, shouting in frustration.
A still from the film Frankenstein’s Island, showing a man wearing a beanie and oversized 70’s sunglasses wiping the side of two machines with prominent dials. It’s rendered in black and white, at it would appear on the original Apple Macintosh.
A Salt and Pepper (Black & white) Mini Schnauzer pup sitting on a patch of grass, staring at the camera. It’s rendered as it would appear on the PICO-8 virtual console, and hence is low resolution, and heavily dithered.
A screen from the Retrospecs iOS app, showing a heavily dithered, two colour image of a dog in orange and black above a series of menu options.
A heavily dithered and pixelated image of a purple balloon against a yellow background.
A black and white, heavily dithered image of Bill Atkinson, pictured here in early eighties. He has a large moustache and wire-framed glasses, beneath a large mop of curly hair. Rendered using Atkinson dithering algorithm.
An abstract image consisting of light and dark green areas of checkerboards horizontal lines of varying density. The image is low resolution and heavily pixelated.
An abstract image consisting of light and dark red areas of what appears to be a folded piece of material. The image is low resolution and heavily pixelated, with very obvious signs of dithering.
An image of a skull, rendered in pixel art in an off-white colour against a dark background. Sections of the image are missing or appear to be corrupted.
An abstract image composed of letters from a custom character pixel font consisting of various low-resolution geometric shapes and checkerboards. The overall impression is of a mass of yellow and black mechanical parts sitting on the left-hand side of the foreground against the backdrop of a clear, teal coloured sky.
A headshot of David Lynch rendered in a blue tinted duotone.
A decorated Christmas tree, with presents around the base, presented in chunky low-resolution, with very large, obvious pixels.
A semi-abstract blocky image of Henry Winkler as “Fonzie” from Happy Days, rendered using a character set that consists of checkerboard patterns of varying sizes in bright, over-saturated colours.
An abstract image consisting of a mix of red vertical stripes and yellow checkboxes on a black background, the image becoming less dense towards the bottom.
An image of a daisy, composed of standard text characters from the MSX computers from the 1980s. The image is primary bright white on a bright yellow background, with the centre of the Daisy using darker, golden colours.
An abstract character image consisting of a large number of characters over a bright blur of rainbow colours. Most of the characters are the hash/pound symbol.
An image of Bruce Campbell from The Evil Dead 2, as it would appear on a Sinclair ZX Spectrum microcomputer from the 1980s. The image is rendered in bright, primary colours with clearly visible dithering and consists of a close-up of a screaming face.
A picture of Noel Edmunds wearing mirrored shades, rendered in as it would appear on a BBC Microcomputer from the 1980s.
A low-resolution, heavily dithered image of a cup of tea, consisting of clearly visible, chunky double-width pixels. The cup is shown in 3/4 top-down view and is sitting on a grey background. It’s contains tea.
An abstract low-resolution image in bright primary colours, consisting of a mix of large yellow, red, green and white blobs on a black background, with heavy dithering evident in the areas where the blobs intersect.
A heavily dithered black & white image of a blurry security camera frame, showing a manic faced milk-carton shaped figurine with some desk knick-knacks in the background.
A pac-man style ghost rendered from text characters in a limited colour palette.
An animation of coloured cuboids travelling towards the camera from the centre of the screen, rendered in text and semi-graphics characters in a limited colour palette.
The frontage of a building with a protruding balcony in sunlight. Light is shining in the front of the balcony and through a side window onto the adjacent wall. Rendered in a limited colour palette (yellow, red, black and white) with significant visible dithering.
A blocky, distorted rendition of a screen grab from the Id Software classic “Wolfenstein 3D”.
An image composed of text characters in a limited colour palette of a blue, purple and red/orange. Whilst somewhat abstract, the image just discernible as being from the classic “Half-Life” PC game, with the protagonist wielding a crowbar as two mutilated scientists approach.
A semi-abstract image composed of graphical checkerboard text characters in a wide variety of colours. Whilst very blocky and somewhat abstract, the image just discernible as being gameplay from the first level of the classic “Doom” PC game.
An image composed of characters from the Commodore PET microcomputer from the 1970s. Whilst very blocky and somewhat abstract, the image is of a milk-carton with eyes, arms and a large smiling mouth.
The Retro Gamer magazine “The Spectrum” cover image, rendered in a manner similar to the way a real ZX Spectrum would output it.
A low resolution rendering of the Doom title screen, in a minimal palette consisting of lavender tinted shades.
A semi-abstract blocky image of Henry Winkler as “Fonzie” from Happy Days, rendered using a character set that consists of checkerboard patterns of varying sizes in bright, over-saturated colours.
A semi-abstract image of a blurred and heavily-dithered head, rendered in a mix of yellow, cyan and black on a magenta background.
An image of a skull (minus jawbone) composed from the Commodore VIC-20 character set, rendered in cream against an off-black background.
A character based image, composed of checkerboard characters of varying resolutions rendered in a mix of orange and blue tints. Whilst obfuscated, the head of a bearded man with glasses is visible.
A ghost from Pac-Man, rendered in 3D and sitting on an empty background. The image is very low resolution, rendered in a limited palette and contains very obvious dithering. The ghost is primarily a creamy colour, with orange highlights around the eyes and the frills around the bottom. The background is mix of lavender hues.
An image of a slightly startled face made up of characters from the Diet PETSCII character set, rendered in black and white on a light blue background.