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Welcome to ALBERT, the pixel editor for extended Commodore 64 images. In case you were wondering, ALBERT was named after Albert Charpentier, one of the VIC-II designers. However, ALBERT is also an acronym that stands for "Advanced Lightweight Bitmap Extender with Raster Tech".

ALBERT provides pixel artists with a single editor to create artwork that can only be displayed with the support of native code for the Commodore 64, without requiring the assistance of an assembly coder.
In its basic, publicly available, form, users can pixelate multicolor images that extend into the left and right borders of the visible screen, using multicolor sprites to display the extra pixels.
Individual sprite colors can be set on a per-sprite basis with just two exceptions, due to the so-called "bad lines". In fact, there are no demo-style nearly-whole-RAM-consuming tricks at play here.

The technical details in a nutshell:

- 2 whole columns of sprites in each side-border, for a total of 96 extra pixels (48 fat pixels) that get the total image width to 416 pixels (208 fat pixels),
- no glitches and no bugs in any of the sprites all the way to the external edges (try "Debug borders" in VICE's Commodore 64 emulator),
- stable code for PAL and NTSC machines.