Please folks before you bother to sign this silly petition: take a look at this Web Page called "whatever happened to Deluxe Paint" by Dallas Hodgson.. He wrote much of the code for later versions of DPAINT...
Whatever Happened to Deluxe Paint (by Dallas Hodgson)EA is a software distributor not a production house... When DPaint V shipped on CD thru EA UK it was their last STUDIO product ever shipped and like AmigaOS (after Commodore) almost never saw the light of day. Some company in the UK actually owns the rights to it now (can't remember the name but they along with Acid Software) got the distribution rights from EA...
So in other words, it's not their code (the company might not even exist anymore) and the product is lost...
I wish you all the luck in the world, but EA won't budge on this type of thing most likely and why would they? There is no market for them.. Someone should request they release the source code to all Amiga products into GPL (Gnu Public License) instead of asking them to redo the product...
That way someone can pick it back up again.. If the code even still exists. I bet Dallas Hodgson could shed some light on that :-)
-Don Burnett
