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Retrospecs: system-accurate pixel art filter app for iOS

Rob Beschizza
Oct 20, 2025
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An Amstrad CPC+ image on Retrospecs

Retrospecs turns photos and artwork into pixel art, and not just by crudely resizing them. It provides filters for a variety of classic systems, with accurate pixel aspect ratios, pallettes and character sets (for textmode art)—and tutorials on importing the images into the systems whose hardware they imitate.

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