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# /webring/lowbit-reliquary

Lowbit Reliquary

8-bit iconography and zines. A cabinet of lovingly-curated sprite sheets, tile atlases, and the scanned margins of games-magazine readers.

# cabinet

┌──────────┬──────────┬──────────┬──────────┐
│  sprites │   tiles  │   zines  │   chips  │
│   1,284  │    512   │    38    │    94    │
└──────────┴──────────┴──────────┴──────────┘

Every artifact is catalogued, dated, and attributed to the best of our ability. Nothing is for sale. Everything is for looking at.

# current display

"Sprites of the Unused Level" — a hanging of 47 enemy sprites cut from the final build of Hydra Runner '89. Recovered from a third-party preservation tape in 2024.

# recent acquisitions

  • a 16×16 idle-loop of a lighthouse keeper, palette limited to 4 greys
  • a tile set of mossy bricks with a single missing tile (the artist died before completing it)
  • 27 unused portraits from a cancelled detective adventure titled Night Shift '92
  • a zine cover rendered entirely in U+2588 blocks, 80×50

# curator's note

preservation is not nostalgia.
it is the refusal to let a palette die
just because the hardware did.

We run on donated NAS drives and good will. If you have a tape, a floppy, or a screenshot you want looked at, write to curator [at] lowbit.reliquary.