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GrafX2 was made for DOS and has been ported everywhere since. It has tools no other program does, constraints for retro platforms, and an antiquated interface.
Petscii Cola is a free, basic PETSCII editor which can save raster images and Commodore 64-playable files, as well as convert raster images to PETSCII, multicolor or hires Commodore 64 images.
It also includes a choice of Commodore 64 palettes, and a gallery of PETSCII art.
Deluxe Paint was the paint program of the Amiga era and the tool a great deal of 1980s and 1990s game art was made in. Its custom brushes, palette cycling and animation features set conventions that pixel art editors still follow, and its keyboard-driven workflow is why so many later programs feel the way they do. It is no longer sold; the versions that survive do so through archives and emulation.
Multipaint paints inside the real limits of 8-bit machines. Pick a target - Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, MSX, Amstrad CPC and others - and the canvas enforces that machine's resolution, palette and attribute rules while you draw, so what you see is what the hardware could actually display. It exports in native formats.
PicoImageTool is a lightweight, portable application designed for preparing graphics for retro computers, embedded systems, and other hardware with limited display capabilities.
The application provides tools for image resizing, color quantization, palette management, and dithering, allowing modern images to be converted into formats suitable for low-color and indexed graphics systems.
PicoImageTool was originally developed in late 2025 as a small internal utility for Raspberry Pi Pico (hence the name) projects using VGA output.
The initial purpose was to convert PNG images into raw indexed graphics data while maintaining a separate, unified palette.
What began as a simple hand written project-specific tool has since evolved into a more versatile image conversion utility, with an improved interface, additional processing algorithms, and support for retro image formats. Currently its mostly vibe coded using Codex.
It's completely free and requires no installation.
Requirements: .NET 10 Desktop Runtime x64
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