Petition for EA to start developing DPaint again

[grrlygoth]

A petition has just been posted at http://www.petitiononline.com/dpaint/petition.html to get EA adn their abandoned DPaint product to return to the Amiga. Come on guys, get signing.Petition to Electronic Arts to revive Deluxe Paint :-D

[x56h34]

Just signed it. What are the odds of this pettition working though? :-)

[bloodline]

grrlygoth wrote:
A petition has just been posted at http://www.petitiononline.com/dpaint/petition.html to get EA adn their abandoned DPaint product to return to the Amiga. Come on guys, get signing.Petition to Electronic Arts to revive Deluxe Paint :-D

Maybe you could help continue this port to AROS?

[grrlygoth]

Well i can't code very at all, barely managed any 68kb asm (mmm Devpac)  but if i can look and scratch my head and appear to help i certainly will!

 :-D  :-o

[bloodline]

grrlygoth wrote:
Well i can't code very at all, barely managed any 68kb asm (mmm Devpac)  but if i can look and scratch my head and appear to help i certainly will!

 :-D  :-o

Scratch your head and appear to help?!!? If you do that, I'll be out of a job :lol:

[Animagic]

Just signed in.

Come on!!!
make it happen!!!!

[that_punk_guy]

The petition could be worded better. It's all about why Amiga users need EA, but in the end EA will be asking, "Why do we need you?"

Just a thought. I signed it anyway, even though PPaint is way better :-D

[theTAO]

I'm usually the last person to be discouraging about such things, but this just ain't gonna happen.  EA is (more or less) the NVidia of the games industry.  (I was originally gonna say Microsoft, but I think NVidia is more appropriate.)  They just don't play in small markets anymore.  And do they still write applications?  Maybe you could convince them to release the code, but if it was done in assembly, that's still not going to be much help.  IMHO, it's best to put our weight behind a smaller publisher.  Does anyone know if Cloanto has plans for a PPC Personal Paint?

Todd

[bloodline]

EA have never played in small markets.. that's why they used to do software for the Amiga ;-)

Anyway AROS's UberPaint, is written in C and opensource so why doesn't someone work on it? It would be easily portable to both MOS and OS4...

[Kronos]

Now lets see.....

For all we know it is quite likely to be cooded in asm (68k), does alot of
direct HW-acceses, doesn't support truecolor,and and and ......

Would say that bloodline's idea of investing time in any opensource
replacement is the best we will ever get.

Also remember that EA dropped DP when Amigas were still counted
in 6 to 7 digit figures, not very likely that they would bother with a
market that would be very hard pressed to come up with 10000
active users.

[Acill]

Ah yes. You know i put my name on that!! Hey check out Ultimate Paint. Its a lot like Dpaint.

http://graphicssoft.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://www.ultimatepaint.com/

[Wolfe]

Signed it, for what ever good it will do.  What happened to MorphOS support?  :-P

AROS - looks neat, but, until it shows up on hardware other than PC's hardware (don't have any / will not buy any), its a waste.  When a version that will work on a PPC system is ready for prime time - call me!   :-D

[Spyros]

Unfortunately I have to agree with people who claim that EA will not bother with the Amiga. :-(

No point in signing it.

[bloodline]

Wolfe wrote:
Signed it, for what ever good it will do.  What happened to MorphOS support?  :-P

AROS - looks neat, but, until it shows up on hardware other than PC's hardware (don't have any / will not buy any), its a waste.  When a version that will work on a PPC system is ready for prime time - call me!   :-D

It's certainly not a waste, and yes work is still going to get it fully functional on the PPC.

[vince_6]

That's a great idea,but do not wait this to happen on Amiga...  :-x
 A new PC version (with anim support) would be fun, just remember the ultimate tool Animbrush  :-D