A-EON Technology Acquires Personal Paint

[wawrzon]

If I were a regular user of software, I'd much rather lose the ability to get it for free than have it stagnate and get old.

this software is already old. adding some eye candy to it will not change this fact nor its value much.

can't help but feel that if we want development of programs to continue or restart, we have to get rid of this "I want it but don't want to pay for it" psyche which seems so prevalent in Amiga circles these days.

there is no user base to sustain commercial developments. i wonder what you are expecting the users to do, if you get rid of this what you call psyche and start charge users for what has previously been available for free..

[wawrzon]

Not sure how layers would work in an 8bit gfx program, layers based programs such as ahen , SketchBlock, reply on alpha blending and other advanced pixel manipulations like multiply add subtract that do not translate well.

Do you have an example of a 8bit program using layers so I can see how it works in relation to them?

 I know ImageFX has alayers facility, but that as well only works for RGB buffers, with a 'frames' version for colourmapped, which is not the same as it's for animation not blending, and as such is covered by PPaint superior animation features.

grafx2 seems to have layers, have never used this feature though.

[wawrzon]

Looks like they have emailed everyone who hosted the files. I have an aminet mirror - and they of course emailed me to remove them.. doh.

I suggest everyone uploads lots of copies to their favourite hosting sites to avoid losing this software that has been freely available for years.

really stupid move.

this sound like something that will be remembered as a really a bad publicity, even worse if there is no simple and honest explanation for this move. who has actually emailed you?

[wawrzon]

whoever made a piece of software they originally released on Aminet or allowed to be submitted there, we should be thankful they did so in the first place.

we are thankful that cloanto released this software free of charge on aminet. but why should we be thankful, that another entity demands removing it even if they acquired rights to it.

[wawrzon]

And again, its been available for aaaaaages, so anyone even remotely intrested in the program either already have it installed or got a file lying around somewhere.

so this is the attitude towards those who did not download yet, let alone potential new users? sure, there aint no new users, not likely given the circumstances.