State of the Amiga, 2007

[pVC]

What is the win? I think that Amiga users will decrease as it's been for 10 years. Nothing stops that major trend. But OTOH, I feel like being on winning side as long as I can use Amigas for my daily computing and who could have thought it's still possible on 2007 And even have new operating systems and development. For me the biggest breath was the Pegasos and MorphOS. With them I can do things which I miss on my classic setup (which is still on active use too)... like cpu intensive things like movies I've tried to stay out of fights between "brothers" and enjoyed what we have. Things could be MUCH better, but they also could be MUCH worse

[pVC]

Aren't Photoshop and Gimp for totally different area of graphics production than DPaint?

[pVC]

@adz

Like easy pixel by pixel work? Good palette handling for non true color formats?

There's more PS/Gimp like programs for Amiga too (ImageFX, ArtEffect, FXPaint, TVPaint, Photogenics, XiPaint, etcetc), but they're more for image processing and truecolor painting etc. For completely different job than DPaint/PPaint/Brilliance/etc pixel exact painters/animators, IMHO.

[pVC]

@persia

Why can't you? I can take camera and download photos with Amiga easily (done that with about ten cameras and all have worked either with PTP or USB mass storage), I can edit them as I need and I can create web pages either automatically or by hand from batch converted images etc. As you said, basic stuff, which can also be made with Amiga.

TVPaint... uhm.. why should paint program support mp3? And for scanning there's different programs.

For massive pictures, you probably need to take some program which has internal virtual memory system, like ArtEffect.

But anyway, slipping again from the original still not answered question, is there modern equivalent for DPaint, which does easy pixelling? For example for (animated) gifs and other web graphics, icon desingning, game gfx, etc possibly low color and small size pixel editing.

For other uses like photo editing etc there are much better alternatives than DPaint on Amiga too.