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Classic 8×8-pixel B&W Mac patterns
TL;DR: I made a website for the original classic Mac patterns I was working on something and thought it would be fun to use one of the classic Mac black-and-white patterns in the project. I'm talking about the original 8×8-pixel ones that were in the...
It's nostalgic, I have a fondness for these old patterns and the original B&W Mac aesthetic, it reminds me of playing games like Dark Castle and Glider, messing around with HyperCard, and using Tex-Edit and hoarding early shareware programs. According to old classic Mac manuals, the patterns were QuickDraw bit-pattern resources, a simple bitmap of 8 bits per row packed into 8 bytes (columns). Ultimately, I wanted to extract the exact original data from the source (or close enough copy thereof) and have the patterns in a format I considered archival for this limited purpose (.pbm files are trivial to parse and manipulate).
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