http://www.effectgames.com/effect/article.psp.html/joe/Old_School_Color_Cycling_with_HTML5#
How awesome is this? Recreating the old 8bit colour palette cycling in html! I'd be interested to see the potential of this expanded into a more practical application, imagine being able to subscribe to a c64/amiga service that plays all the old games directly in the browser
This doesn't work in IE yet unless you have the google chrome frame installed

Wow, brings back old memories. :)

You'll never be a rich man if you keep sharing all your best ideas with the intarwebz like that.

Cool. I remember using colour cycling to make some really neat looking "rotating" balls with DeluxePaint. And one of those fractal programs had an awesome colour cycle effect... those were the days.
Oh, and those examples are awesome. Wow.

That's seriously impressive. And beautiful. Thanks for sharing!

Highly impressive stuff! However, it's so damn pretty it's difficult to imagine that actual Amiga/ST games could measure up. Maybe these guys could give some classics a Lucasarts-esque browser based pixel art makeover? Whatever, I'd love to see the artist behind these involved in creating some actual retro game backgrounds.

Thanks for sharing, nice . . . =)

The artist made these in Deluxe Paint. The DOS version, but still. And he HAS made "retro game backgrounds". He's Mark J. Ferrari, the background artist responsible for, among other games, The Secret Of Monkey Island and Loom ;-)

Well that explains a few things.

For the full effect, you really need to click on show options. It lets you see the color cycling directly in the palette.

Why am I crying ;<?

I remember Ports of Call used this effect pretty well. Any others?