Petition for EA to start developing DPaint again

[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

[Glaucus]

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...

I love your shameless plugs! Keep it up!!!  :-)

  - Mike

[mantisspider]

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i am so confused right now


i just saw "don't say a word" and now i find this thread, my mind is messed up

why would anyone want EA to come back to the amiga with DPaint? If EA is ever to come back the Amiga, on the list of EA products I think DPaint isnt up high on list of EA software I want seen on OS4.
Once they have finished porting all their games and harry potter included then get working on DPaint :-S

there is more of a chance of Jasc bringing PaintShopPro and their other apps over to Amiga than EA coming back. PSP would be pretty cool, cos its already compatible with basically everything out there already. PSP was the only app I used to use on my PC so I could open IFF files back in the old days.

I think the idea of getting the rights to PPaint is more realistic than EA giving anything up. Bet they wouldnt even know where to look. Hmmmm under 'A' for amiga maybe.....

UberPaint looks so similar its scary.

I always thought Disney Animation Studio had the best anim engine on the amiga. Best onion skinning. DPaint's onion skinning was very poor in comparison. The only pants thing about Disney was needing to save ur work, then loading up the seperate app to colour in your drawings and then saving and having to load up the editor to finish your anim. would have been better to have the colour and draw together and then export to the edit suite.
I lost too many anims being corupted going from one app to the other, I have no idea why.

my opinion on the best anim apps could have more clout if i ever used that rombo thingy that Rolf Harris used to have on the Rolf Harris Cartoon Club.
"see you on Rohoholfs Cartoon club... *flick*boing*flick* next week" jammy little buggers... overhead cameras and the lot

[Aegis]

Anyone interested in a DPaint "alike" program for the PC or Mac should check out Mirage here - It's a bang up-to-date version of NewTek's Aura which was in turn a reworking of the Amiga's TVPaint 24-bit painting program. TVPaint was very similar in methodology to Deluxe Paint and Mirage even has animbrushes! TVPaint for the Amiga is available as a free download here and is still a great app (for gfx card users only though).

[Rodney]

Why would they start developing this again? Its not goign to make them any money, its not a professional package, just something to dap around with.

If you ask me, we should be asking them to release the souce.. I.e make it open!

[EDIT]

Infact, that screen shot gave me an idea. I think theres a few Amiga like apps running around and certainly some games that are open source. Such as UberPaint above! Although im guessing that the AROS guys did this? Cause i couldnt find anything like it on the web!

But theres also an application called "worker" which is a ripoff of that file manager for the Amiga... directory opus or something?

I've also got a shuffle puck cafe clone on my linux box that i play a lot! Maybe we should make a list of all the Open Source amiga-like apps that would be great to be ported back to either AmigaOS/MorphOS/AROS???

Because seriously, i dont think any company in their right mind is going to port back applications if they've already left it. Theres hardly any market! Plus, as i said, packages like DPaint arnt going to make anyone any money. I certainly wouldnt pay for it when i can get GIMP for free, which is much more powerful!

[Rodney]

Glaucus wrote:
I love your shameless plugs! Keep it up!!!  :-)

You've gota love his plugs But this isnt a plug! We should be supporting his idea all the way. As far as im concerned, the topic should be changed to "Lets port Uber Paint to AmigaOS/MorphOS !!!"

[bbrv]

Could we have more information on this?!

Please email us directly!

Answer: EA specifically needs to do this:...

Thank you.

R&B

[Lando]

why would anyone want EA to come back to the amiga with DPaint? If EA is ever to come back the Amiga, on the list of EA products I think DPaint isnt up high on list of EA software I want seen on OS4.
Once they have finished porting all their games and harry potter included then get working on DPaint :-S

Yeah, exactly.  

I was working as a programmer on Harry Potter for EA (just finished last month) and I am afraid to say, I think the chances of an Amiga version are pretty slim.  The chances of a new version of DPaint are even slimmer still.  In fact, if they turned sideways they'd disappear.

As far as EA is concerned, they need to make money to stay in business, and the Amiga, and Dpaint, have absolutely zero potential to make money.

[Animagic]

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

Even though I already signed, I'll have to agree... :-D