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Written by Metin Seven 🎨 on 2025-01-22 at 09:18

One of my first-ever commercial jobs, in 1990…

Pixel art of a Philips P3348 386 SX PC for a large screen at a former annual technology fair in the Netherlands called Firato.

I pixeled this in Deluxe Paint ("DPaint") on an Amiga, in 16-color high-resolution mode, 640 pixels wide. 🙂

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Written by Metin Seven 🎨 on 2025-01-23 at 11:01

One of my first commercial jobs included creating pixel art of a skyscraper in five parts, to be displayed on a Philips video wall of 5 x 5 CRT TVs at the Dutch Firato tech fair in 1990.

This is one of the skyscraper parts. I pixeled it in DPaint on an #Amiga, in 16-color high-res mode, 640 pixels wide. 🙂

More #PixelArt in the previous post.

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Written by Dr. G. Power on 2025-01-22 at 09:19

@metin Amazing work! I'm blown away :) What tools do you use? GIMP?

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Written by Metin Seven 🎨 on 2025-01-22 at 09:20

@gpowerf Thank you, appreciated!

Back then I used Deluxe Paint on an Amiga. These days I'm using GIMP, Affinity Photo and PhotoScape X Pro.

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Written by Dr. G. Power on 2025-01-22 at 09:22

@metin Similar transition to me :) Back then I was a big Deluxe Paint fan, then I moved to GIMP.

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Written by Metin Seven 🎨 on 2025-01-22 at 09:23

@gpowerf 👍 I will always keep loving DPaint. Did you know there's a great free recreation of it?

https://github.com/mriale/PyDPainter

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Written by Dr. G. Power on 2025-01-22 at 09:26

@metin Great! I didn't know. I'll take a look.

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Written by Mark B Tomlinson on 2025-01-22 at 09:20

@metin That! Is really great, it looks like a 3D model. You are a true craftsman Metin.

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Written by Metin Seven 🎨 on 2025-01-22 at 09:21

@mbt3d Thank you very much, Mark, I really appreciate it! 😊🙏

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Written by Mark B Tomlinson on 2025-01-22 at 09:27

@metin Pleasure.

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Written by MachsAnders on 2025-01-22 at 09:25

@metin looks great. Wouldn't have thought it's that old. Colours rather remind me of the old Sun SPARCstations.

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Written by Metin Seven 🎨 on 2025-01-22 at 09:27

@MachsAnders Thank you!

I believe this Philips PC model is relatively rare.

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Written by Robert Kist 🇦🇹 🇸🇬 on 2025-01-22 at 09:33

@metin this was my first PC. Philips 386SX/20

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Written by Metin Seven 🎨 on 2025-01-22 at 09:35

@kwramm Cool. 😃 I didn't know the PC model name anymore, thanks!

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Written by Robert Kist 🇦🇹 🇸🇬 on 2025-01-22 at 10:08

@metin the actual model is P 3348. Mine also came with 2MB RAM and a 100MB HDD. I later put a Soundblaster 1.0 in, then a Roland LAPC-1. I think VGA was a Chips and Technologies chipset that just didn't want to give me Super VGA in DPaint II for PC (darn!)

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Written by Metin Seven 🎨 on 2025-01-22 at 10:21

@kwramm Ah, good ol' Soundblaster. 💚

And DPaint II was an interesting odd beast in the series. It was the first DPaint with a 256-color palette before the AGA Amiga was released.

Such a PC and DPaint II remind me of this… 😁

https://graphics.social/@metin/111934734224675982

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Written by Robert Kist 🇦🇹 🇸🇬 on 2025-01-22 at 10:23

@metin yeah, I was pretty jealous. DP2 with 256 looked gorgeous on my dad's 286 with a VGA screen, compared to my A500's rather blurry RGB monitor with 32 colors

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Written by Naku on 2025-01-22 at 09:36

@metin looks amazing!

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Written by Metin Seven 🎨 on 2025-01-22 at 09:38

@nakumorita Many thanks! 👍

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Written by Orhun Parmaksız 👾 on 2025-01-22 at 09:49

@metin that's super nice

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Written by Metin Seven 🎨 on 2025-01-22 at 09:53

@orhun Teşekkür ederim! 🙂

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Written by Robee? Na! 🌈 on 2025-01-22 at 09:50

@metin Still holds up!

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Written by Metin Seven 🎨 on 2025-01-22 at 09:53

@RobeeShepherd Thank you! 😊

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Written by Sander de Regt on 2025-01-22 at 09:59

@metin Ah... de Firato. De IBC voor consumenten.

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Written by Metin Seven 🎨 on 2025-01-22 at 12:54

@ShadowmakerSdR Inderdaad. Was in de jaren 80 echt een happening voor tech-liefhebbers. Ik vergeet nooit meer de Firato waar de Amiga 1000 werd tentoongesteld. Ik was niet bij die stand weg te slaan. 😁 Even verderop presenteerde Ron Brandsteder daar de Showbizzquiz. 😃

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Written by Ozzelot :anarchy: :linux: on 2025-01-22 at 10:11

@metin I love it!

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Written by Metin Seven 🎨 on 2025-01-22 at 10:18

@ozzelot Thank you! 👍

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Written by devsimsek on 2025-01-22 at 11:11

@metin Look's gorgeous. I miss those days (I haven't seen them)

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Written by Metin Seven 🎨 on 2025-01-22 at 12:12

@devsimsek Teşekkür ederim, Metin. 🙂

Those years were really exciting. It was the dawn of the digital revolution, before the public internet, before AI, before Big Tech.

If you wanted to really use the power of your computer, you had to ditch the OS, take over the system and code in Assembly, without any libraries

If you'd like to read more, check the #TeamHoi hashtag, and the Team Hoi game devs section of https://linksta.cc/@seven

[#]RetroComputing #RetroGaming #retro #commodore #amiga #GameDev

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Written by devsimsek on 2025-01-22 at 12:19

@metin Sure Metin :) I'll take a look!

Also, it feels different since we have the same name isn't it :blobpats:

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Written by Metin Seven 🎨 on 2025-01-22 at 12:20

@devsimsek Haha, yeah. Over here in the Netherlands, our name is quite rare. 🙂

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Written by devsimsek on 2025-01-22 at 12:22

@metin Yeah, that's true. Even in Turkey I haven't met with people more than 10.

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Written by Metin Seven 🎨 on 2025-01-22 at 12:22

@devsimsek That makes us special! 😁👍

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Written by IT-Awareness, Fabian Lucchi :donor: on 2025-01-22 at 18:06

@metin Absolutely awesome, and with such a small palette !

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Written by Metin Seven 🎨 on 2025-01-22 at 18:25

@fabianlucchi Thank you very much! 🙏

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Written by Mark B Tomlinson on 2025-01-23 at 12:20

@metin Very nice too!

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Written by Metin Seven 🎨 on 2025-01-23 at 12:25

@mbt3d Muchas gracias! 😊

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Written by h-1^[solo] on 2025-01-25 at 15:46

@metin it’s so yellow/beige. it must have been old hardware used as reference back then. :)

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Written by Metin Seven 🎨 on 2025-01-25 at 16:25

@hollowone Yeah, the good ol' beige computer era. 🙂 I guess it's a bit more saturated because I made it on a CRT screen at the time. The saturation could differ between monitor types.

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