Personal Paint 7.1 for AmigaOS 4.0

[AmigaMac]

Seattle (January 6, 2004) - Amiga Inc. and Cloanto are delighted to announce that Personal Paint 7.1 will be available on the upcoming AmigaOS 4.0 operating system.

Check it out at http://os.amiga.com/corporate/010604-cloanto.shtml.

The Personal Paint series of 2D graphics and animations
applications has been a mainstay of the application base for
the Amiga platform ever since its introduction in 1992 and it
is also a star attraction of the Cloanto Amiga Forever package.
As Cloanto considers a new version of the product for AmigaOS
4.0, it has decided to show its commitment to the Amiga
platform and community by making the source code of the current
version available to Amiga Inc., allowing them to create a
PowerPC native version for the upcoming AmigaOS 4.0 product.
The created binaries will be owned by Cloanto but will be made
available for free download from the Amiga and Cloanto web
sites.

Cloanto and Amiga are also in talks concerning a new version of
Amiga Forever, as well as a special version of Amiga Forever
for AmigaOS 4.0, which aims to provide chipset-level Classic
Amiga compatibility integrated with the new generation Amiga
operating system and hardware.

About Amiga

Amiga Inc. established itself in 1985 as the premier provider
of multi-media technologies to the world. Today Amiga continues
leading the way in multi-media by providing language
independent technologies to developers for writing and porting
applications to a new multi-media platform that is hardware
agnostic. Amiga Anywhere, powered with intent(TM) from the Tao
Group, enables applications to run unchanged on a broad range
of processors including ARM, StrongARM, Intel X-Scale, OMAP,
MIPS, Intel x86, Motorola 68K and Hitachi SH. It can run hosted
on a wide variety of operating systems including Windows CE
.NET, Windows 9x, 2000, Windows XP, Linux, and Embedded Linux.
AmigaDE Player and applications can be purchased at
www.amiga-anywhere.com. AmigaOS support and information is
available at os.amiga.com.

About Cloanto

Cloanto started as an Amiga software house in 1987 and remains
passionately committed to supporting its Amiga customers, the
Amiga community, and those who have not yet had a chance to
experience an Amiga. Cloanto's Amiga solutions are at
www.amigaforever.com. For the nostalgically-minded, Cloanto's
original Amiga site is online at
www.cloanto.com/amiga/classic/.


Links

Announcement by Amiga:
http://os.amiga.com/corporate/010604-cloanto.shtml

Amiga Forever Home Page:
http://www.amigaforever.com


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[zee4]

Sounds good to me- of couse I'll still get ImageFX for the true-colour stuff

Seriously, I think there's a market for software like this- for instance, GIF anims for web developers. Good PNG support would be great for game developers.

[KennyR]

Now I fully expect many of the moaners on ANN who said PPaint was an obsolete 80s tool will have a mysterious change of heart.

[ksk]

I found other interesting stuff as well:
"Cloanto and Amiga are also in talks concerning a new version of Amiga Forever, as well as a special version of Amiga Forever for AmigaOS 4.0, which aims to provide chipset-level Classic Amiga compatibility integrated with the new generation Amiga operating system and hardware."

The "final burial" of A1 to A1200 bridge card? ;-)

[zee4]

Sounds good to me- of couse I'll still get ImageFX for the true-colour stuff

Seriously, I think there's a market for software like this- for instance, GIF anims for web developers. Good PNG support would be great for game developers.

[amigamad]

Looks like cloanto have beem very busy what with os4 and morphos versions ill buy an os4 version when released. :-)

[zee4]

Now I fully expect many of the moaners on ANN...

ANN tends to have a lot of those

OT:  I just checked it yesterday and they're off on the latest BBRV "scandel". Jaza, just do a search for "Viscorp, "Bill Buck", carl, jason"  and save yourself some time typing.

Seriouly though, the more software the better.

[KennyR]

"Cloanto and Amiga are also in talks concerning a new version of Amiga Forever, as well as a special version of Amiga Forever for AmigaOS 4.0, which aims to provide chipset-level Classic Amiga compatibility integrated with the new generation Amiga operating system and hardware."

Well, good luck to 'em, but I think they're seriously underestimating the practical difficulties of doing this. But we shall see.

[zee4]

I think they're seriously underestimating the practical difficulties of doing this.

I guess it depends on how integrated thay want to get. AmigaForever seems to already have a solution with AmigaExplorer for sharing files.

[lempkee]

yeah starts to make sense all of this now , they had to post it as MOS news first to prevent trolls from going bananaz..., and then announce the amiga version AFTER ..

good job and thank god for the small flamewars..

[AmigaSource]

Amigamad I know this has NOTHING to do with your post but

  1- Who's that "Beautiful" woman in your avatar?
  2- Where can I get the whole picture?
  3- Is she single? ;-)

[Damion]

What I found kinda interesting was this part:

As Cloanto considers a new version of the product for AmigaOS
4.0, it has decided to show its commitment to the Amiga
platform and community by making the source code of the current
version available to Amiga Inc., allowing them to create a
PowerPC native version for the upcoming AmigaOS 4.0 product.

Are Fleecy and HMetal going to do the porting??
(I'm seriously asking BTW). If not, who will they
hire to get the job done? Hyperion maybe?

[Jose]

@AmigaSource

*Me was thinking the same thing...

[HMetal]

Are Fleecy and HMetal going to do the porting?? (I'm seriously asking BTW). If not, who will they hire to get the job done? Hyperion maybe?

Having been a software developer for more than 14 years now (mostly C/C++), and having seen projects through from concept to release, sure I could do it, but I doubt I'll be working on this port.  I've got enough work on my plate.

I doubt Fleecy will port any of it either.   I'm not sure of his experience in actual coding, though I know he has done a bit of VP (AmigaDE/Anywhere) coding.

There are other personnel working for Amiga, Inc in various capacities.  No, I am not at liberty to discuss who and how.

As for Hyperion, it's possible and they could do it but I haven't heard anything to support that notion.  Don't you think Hyperion's guys are busy enough with AmigaOS 4.0? :-)

[XDelusion]

If they want to integrate backwards comptability with old Amiga software, I think one thing they out to think about is adding new features to the File info, for example, if you have an ADF file, and you click on it, it will know to launch up an (invisble) session of UAE, which will auto load into it's own window, I.E. you click on a ADF of Shadow Of The Beast 3, and it loads. But then there are compatability issues to think about, and so you should then be able to right click on the ADF file to goto its info, and set the UAE parameters from with there, close it, and launch and all is well...

 Of course there would have to be a standard default so you don't have to do this every time. Something like a stock Amiga 500 with 1Mb chip RAM or something.