"16 bit sensation" mentioned a curious technique used to convert lineart to digital data. The art is transferred to a piece of cling film, then affixed to the screen, and converted to pixels - using just the keyboard!
I never heard about this method, so I wanted to try it immediately...
@nina_kali_nina I remember doing that in a slightly more sophisticated way with ArtWorks on the Archimedes. Scan the image, stick it on a semi-transparent foreground layer, and then draw under it... Had rather good results, too.
@darkling fancy, layers!
@nina_kali_nina I'm realising that my experience was about 5 years later tech (early '90s, ARM3) than what you're trying to do (late '80s, 80286), so it's a very different beastie. Similar principles, though.
@darkling the show says that this was used on 8-bit machines from early 80s, too.