Edvard wrote:
P.S. What graphic programs were retro games such as turrican, zool, james pond etc designed on?
I'm not 100% certain, but there's a pretty good chance the graphics where designed in Deluxe Paint (any version) and then later imported into some specialty tools for putting them in the game (defining animations, making the tiles used for the level map etc).
Altough I do know that Turrican had it's own toolset. Perhaps that included the graphic editor, perhaps not.