Some beautiful 256 colour cycling pictures for old skool Dpaint lovers....

[Amiga_Nut]

Well if you were with Amiga from the start you'll remember the awesomeness of Dpaint colour cycling (and Neochrome/Degas if you didn't have an Amiga!), someone else does and he did something about it with some HTML 5 colour cycled 256 colour images. The images are really nicely done even without the colour cycling.

Enjoy

http://www.effectgames.com/effect/article.psp.html/joe/Old_School_Color_Cycling_with_HTML5

[koshman]

Man, those are are soo beautiful!! Somebody, please take them and make an adventure game based on them, that would be amazing. Stylewise the pictures remind me a bit of the gorgeous handdrawn backgrounds in Evil's Doom. And is it just me or do some of the landscapes look like a Zork game with graphics? To the west you can see a mountain range in the distance...
Anyway, f*** truecolor 3D graphics...

[Amiga_Nut]

You can see the complex pallet cycling regions in the options tab too, some of the pictures are the most complex colour cycling I've ever seen and don't even look like simple colour cycling because they go over different colour areas faultlessly, like where fog is depicted.

I just wish he would allow people to download an original image with the pallet cycling tags intact so you could display them on an A1200 in Dpaint 4/5.

[Thorham]

These are fantastic Downloading them now using a script on my A1200

[Minuous]

What's all this HTML crap, where are the actual IFF ILBM files to download!?

[odin]

Get off my lawn!

Anyway, good to see someone else also remembers Evil's Doom. I'm still waiting for the full game to be released! =)

[Amiga_Nut]

These are fantastic Downloading them now using a script on my A1200

Did you manage to download them and get them to work with Dpaint 4/5 etc or are the colour cycle pallet groups lost in the download process?

[ChaosLord]

What's all this HTML crap, where are the actual IFF ILBM files to download!?

+1

My 1500 Mhz FireFox computer is too slow to play this inefficient, cycle-wasting HTML stuff at full speed so the color cycling looks crap.  It looks like it is skipping frames or something.

I am certain that my Deluxe Paint 5 on my mighty Amiga 1200 would have no trouble playing them correctly.

[mechy]

WOW,
  Those are incredible. what a artist..

mike

[basman74]

Excellent work!

Cheers Valentin

[lauri.lotvonen]

I though colour cycling is just for simple waterfalls etc...
I'm just shocked how fantastic these "animations" are, just cycling the colours?? :eek:. A great works of art, thank you so much for sharing these.

[sledge]

The original IFF-files wanted!!!!!

Does anybody have them?

[Thorham]

Did you manage to download them and get them to work with Dpaint 4/5 etc or are the colour cycle pallet groups lost in the download process?

No, they're java script text files, and have to be converted. Counting_pine on the FreeBasic forum as written a simple program to display them natively, but they still have to be converted back to IFF. See here: http://www.freebasic.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=16119. Just scroll down to the CODE block.

The original IFF-files wanted!!!!!

Does anybody have them?

Nope, they're copirighted by various companies, and even the artist isn't allowed to publish them like that

[pVC]

+1

My 1500 Mhz FireFox computer is too slow to play this inefficient, cycle-wasting HTML stuff at full speed so the color cycling looks crap.  It looks like it is skipping frames or something.

I am certain that my Deluxe Paint 5 on my mighty Amiga 1200 would have no trouble playing them correctly.

Hmm... my 1500MHz OWB computer plays them smooth, beautiful. But CPU is at the max... in general it's pretty horrible how the overwhelming CPU power is wasted on the web nowadays

[jd997uk]

Hmm... my 1500MHz OWB computer plays them smooth, beautiful. But CPU is at the max... in general it's pretty horrible how the overwhelming CPU power is wasted on the web nowadays

This won't be the 1st time that something originally from an Amiga (7mhz?) cannot easily be done on a more modern machine.
Similar to some of the Demos that have to be converted to video for the YouTube generation to view. All the horsepower to now run something that used to run from a floppy, back in the day