pixel art

Few elements in the history of personal computing evoke as much nostalgia as the simple blue collage that greeted users during the iconic Windows 95 setup process. Despite being nearly three decades old, Windows 95's influence persists—not only as the operating system that transformed Microsoft...

Feeling exhausted by the endless scroll of Windows 11 updates, desktop icons multiplying like rabbits, and the haunting glow of Microsoft account logins at every turn? Enter Commodore OS Vision 3.0: the Linux-based, retro-futuristic operating system you never knew you needed, but suddenly can’t...

When was the last time you booted up a Game Boy Color and thought, “What this pixelated bad boy really needs is Microsoft Windows 3.1?” If your answer is “never—until now,” you’re in luck. A developer by the name of Ruben Retro has birthed “GBS WINDOWS” for the Game Boy, and no, it’s not the...

There’s a peculiar kind of nostalgia that sneaks up on you, usually just as you’re about to open a productivity suite or fiddle yet again with a premium photo editor’s endless sea of tabs and sliders. Before Adobe suite subscriptions and digital brushes outnumbered real hairs, there was only...

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Wolfenstein has been the subject of its fair share of remakes, demakes and fanmade tributes, yet few rank as high on the 'wtf?' scale as this new pixel-high 1-D interpretation. The craziest part? It's actually kind of fun. Created by Wonder-Tonic, Wolfenstein 1-D prides itself as being the “the...

I'm a pixel artist and I tried Microsoft Paint for Windows 7 and I found it really difficult to use. Is there anyway to get the old Microsoft Paint? Difficulties: All paintbrushes have a strange effect to them and I can't change it's shape. Anti-aliasing on paintbrushes and text cannot be...