Party Forever 2023 had theme Robot and that was inspiration for author krupkaj of the picture "What about welded wine?" Also there was his partial familiarity with industry robots used for production lines.
So in the end there are both robots on the picture, that is one real industry type and second imaginary kind, about how we are imagining those for decades even before mass production of computers. And one little robot what maybe can be put in both those categories.
This picture contains small language joke based on used synonym word. In English there are different words for mulled wine and for welded steel parts, but in Czech it is the same word for both cases.
So those robots, what are themselves partially made from steel parts, are preparing welded wine, as it is their style of, if not life, than existence.
Sadly, this joke exists only in Czech language and is lost in others ones. However, in reality, not every Czech speaker, including myself, will notice that little language play.
Maybe for such quite wide misunderstanding this picture got only the last place between four entries in category Atari GFX and that result looks as shame for me. However, that's just my view, have yours here.
The image was created using different technical and software equipment, which is an interesting process in itself, so I asked author krupkaj about it.
Its creation started out on a flat touchscreen thing, which is thus a great replacement for single-purpose drawing peripherals like the very rare one for the little Atari. Only here the image is created directly under the drawing tool, not on a separate screen, which is actually better.
Next step the graphic program GIMP was used for some editing and conversion into a suitable format and lastly the well-known Graph2Font tool was used for the final processing and conversion, allowing the monochromatic drawing to be coloured, with certain limitations, using the PMG system and resulting in an image in the form of an executable program.
That was compressed for FLOP purposes, unlike the original contribution on Forever, which did not change its features, such as the ability to run from DOS and even directly from a hypertext browser.
The uncompressed version is less than 8 KB and as output from Graph2Font it runs on the widely used Atari 8-bit computers. However, it apparently has a higher boot address as it can run under DOS, so it probably won't work on some of the original, not commonly seen, models with only 16 KB of RAM, even though the size does not exceed that range.
The program with the image can be terminated by pressing apparently any keyboard button. It will then return to DOS control if it was started from DOS.
However, it does not need any operating system for its operation and so it should be possible to start it from any game loader.
More properties should be found in the tool documentation.
Current URL: g2f.atari8.info
Graph2Font is of Polish origin and as such most of the documentation, texts and even some video, is in Polish. But it also offers descriptions in English, which is probably good for a lot of other people.
Honza, known as krupkaj, has been using it for his monochromatic images coloured with the PMG system for many years. Those who follow the contests organized at Forever meetings in Slovakia, the category of pictures, should have already met them.