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I remember the first moments switching from C64 to a 386AT PC with VGA card/screen and be blown away by Deluxe Paint II's included artwork named pueblo (http://www.randelshofer.ch/animations/anims_ibm/electronic_a...), kingtut (https://www.datagubbe.se/dpaint/img/kingtut.png) and of course celtic (https://amiga.lychesis.net/assets/AvrilHarrison/AH_Celtic.pn...)

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That King Tut image was really sensational back then, at least for early teenage me, and for a computer that was within imaginable reach (the Amiga, of course).

By the great Avril Harrison, one of the artists behind the Monkey Island games, whose likeness is said to have inspired Elaine!

It's shame I learned her identity only today! I assume you are referring to Monkey Island's Elaine Marley.

Is there another Elaine?

Avril is also listed as an artist in many other lucasarts games, including Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis. Also in Prince of Persia (just for the title screen [0], if I understand well).

Definitely, she's one of the outstanding pixel artists in history. All the Deluxe Paint demo images are hers and are mind-blowing [1]. You can identify her works by the "AH" signature, often discretely embedded in some texture.

[0] https://www.abandonware-france.org/ltf_abandon/ltf_galeries....

[1] https://amiga.lychesis.net/assets/AvrilHarrison/

Back when dithering was standard and modem download times for a single image were measured in 10's of seconds.

Do you mean 286AT? Iirc the types of 386 were sx or dx?

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