A-EON Technology Acquires Personal Paint

[Gulliver]

It was probably removed from Aminet because v7.1  was competing with the forthcoming v7.3

To make it short: v7.3 has probably no remarkable new feature to make it viable as a product having its former version free. Most likely just a PPC port with minor fixes.

Even v7.1 was not the best in its day, I fail to see how could a "remastered" version be better, but cultist will adore and praise and others will just be dissapointed.

[Gulliver]

@Gulliver

I think you missed the press release above:

The new Personal Paint 7.3 Classic (and PPC) version has the following features:-

● Works with the Classic AmigaOS and AmigaOS4.1 and and emulation under WinUAE and Amiga Forever
● Totally integrated with the AmigaOS Workbench
● Supports AmigaOS screen dragging
● Smoother interaction with the OS4 screen dragging system
● True colour animation frame thumbs in the StoryBoard window
● High resolution gadget imagery and thin borders style GUI option for a more modern look
● 9 new built in brush shapes
● 100 new Custom Brushes
● Pressure sensitive drawing
● Dithered transparency
● New Airbrush Linemode
● Extended paint functionality with image processing tool

Items 1 and 2 can hardly be considered a feature.
Item 4 is only applicable to OS4 not Classic

And then you have what can be considered features: Items 5-12

Is it worth the upgrade?
My point still stands

[Gulliver]

If you are user that extensively works with PPaint on a regular basis, then the drawing tablet support and 100x new brushes, new image processing tools, new GUI etc etc would all be most welcome.  It is subjective to the user.

From my point of view, as a Classic Amiga user, when an application that hasn't been updated in a decade has fresh development put into it, I welcome the investment.

Actions speak louder than words: lets see where A-EON goes with PPaint project  in the next year

Fair enough. Lets wait and see