how do you call that type of illustration that looks like made from the old computers using really basic design please?

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I call it "MacDraw". But "that type of illustration that looks like made from the old computers" works for me, too.

;-)

JET

There was another oldie called Claris Works which had draw and paint possibilities. MacPaint had them too. Trouble is that these days, even if you've got an ancient computer (and I've still got a Macintosh Plus stashed away somewhere), it can be very troublesome getting the stuff out of them. You'll need a floppy drive with a USB plug - and even then it's difficult getting modern machines to recognize files.

I suggest that Photoshop can do the job for you just as well. Use Bitmap mode and the Brush and Pencil tools in very low resolution, so that you can work pixel by pixel. Place files into Illy and enlarge then there. Or switch off anti-aliasing if you want to enlarge them in Photoshop RGB or greyscale. Remember that enlargement in Photoshop should only be done by squaring (200, 400, 800%), otherwise the pixels will try to re-draw themselves unequally and you can lose the oldie look. You can use this same technique for drawing icons - I've done quite a bit of that.

"If you have the old system up and running, you could always email it to your future self's modern Inbox."

Provided that your antique has got a modem. Mine hasn't. E-mail hadn't been invented then. It was all done with a very primitive hard drive and floppies. The oldest machines didn't even have a hard drive so you had to have an external floppy drive for copying from floppy to floppy and nothing could be bigger than 1.4 MB. Them wuz the days :-)