I just got digi-paint...wow !!!

[rednova]

Dear Amigans:

I was just reading an old amiga magazine. I was impressed by the ad about DCTV. Especially by the digitizing and painting capabilities. Then I remembered I had acquired a digi-view package, a long time ago, sitting in my storage. I had never used or tried this. As I was really excited...I went thru my storage and found the digi view box. WOW, the complete digi view stuff in like new condition. Every thing seems to be good, now I just need a video camera so I can start digitizing.
But the story does not end here.  Included in the box/package, was a digi-paint original software disk with its manual.  I was again so excited !!!
A new painting program for my amiga, just as good as DCTV. !!!!
Needless to say, I grabbed the digipaint disk and loaded into my trusty amiga 1200.
It is working super..and I can even load deluxe paint pics from my HD.
I am so happy now...getting digi paint, which is completely new to me.
I just got digi-paint... WOW !!!!

rednova

[AmigaPixel]

Very cool! I first saw that at a community college back in 1989. It was connected to a Amiga500 which is the first time I recall seeing an Amiga, I was blown away by the demos. Love DCTV paint, I whished it would run on Amiga Forever.

[beller]

Loved Digi-paint and used extensively before I worked on the DCTV manual.  After I used DCTV my Digiview went into storage.  I much preferred DCTV's digitizer and the ability to use a color camera.  Digiview was great but required a lot of work to produce quality images.

I think my digital painting software went from Digi-paint to DCTV to Brilliance with the required DeluxePaint versions tossed in.  On the Mac I used Photoshop but, lately, iPhoto seems to take care of most of it....

Enjoy your "new" software!!

Bob

[persia]

Try Pixelmator, it's a lot like a modernised version of Deluxe Paint.

Loved Digi-paint and used extensively before I worked on the DCTV manual.  After I used DCTV my Digiview went into storage.  I much preferred DCTV's digitizer and the ability to use a color camera.  Digiview was great but required a lot of work to produce quality images.

I think my digital painting software went from Digi-paint to DCTV to Brilliance with the required DeluxePaint versions tossed in.  On the Mac I used Photoshop but, lately, iPhoto seems to take care of most of it....

Enjoy your "new" software!!

Bob

[beller]

Persia,

Thanks for the tip!  Just downloaded the demo and it does indeed look very good.

You can never have enough good software!

Bob

[Castellen]

There were a lot of interesting paint applications about back then, I'm surprised no-one's mentioned the OpalVision package yet.  Not tried Digi-Paint myself.

On a similar subject, I have a surplus fully functional DCTV available with original disks if anyone is after one.  It's the NTSC version, not PAL.  US$25 + freight.
Email me if interested.

[AmigaPixel]

@persia

Thanks too for the tip,I have been wanting a Amiga like paint program. Now I just have to get a used Mac!

[AmigaPixel]

There were a lot of interesting paint applications about back then, I'm surprised no-one's mentioned the OpalVision package yet.  Not tried Digi-Paint myself.

On a similar subject, I have a surplus fully functional DCTV available with original disks if anyone is after one.  It's the NTSC version, not PAL.  US$25 + freight.
Email me if interested.

I used to own an OpalVision, and it was a very nice paint program too.

[Amiga_Nut]

Digi-Paint was a lot of fun, I used it all the time with Digi-View. The post processing on Digi-View 4 was also fantastic for laced ham images. I spent more time playing with those two packages than any game I ever bought

[T3000]

heh, kinda cool to see someone get excited about outdated imaging software. DigiView and DigiPaint were top notch when released. Did take a lot of work to get a decent image with it's slow scan color wheel method. When DCTV was relesed, it sent DigiView/Paint into the closet. DCTV paint program was awesome comapred to earlier imaging apps. Then I obtained an OpalVision card and a internal V-Lab frame grabber. Tossed the DCTV into the closet next to the Digistuff. Used OpalPaint extensively. Was hoping that the rest of the OpalVision package was to be released. Too bad Centar Development folded. Eventually got into the entier VideoToaster/Flyer setup. Funny how I made full circle with NewTek products.

[pwermonger]

I actually have one of the Opalvision Video Editing sets. Unfortunately it causes the Amiga not to boot. Dont know what part is causing the problem and someday will try transferring the Roaster chip and the rest piece by piece to a known working Opalvision card I have since, I suspect, it more likely a bad Opalvision card would cause the Amiga to fail on self test instead of the rest of it.
 
I never had a Digi-View but was always impressed by what they could do back then. I ended up getting a Mimietics Framebuffer since it could display as well as grab in full NTSC images output from VistaPro, Imagine, and even with ArtPro you could send anything to it. As for Digi-Paint, I always hated HAM paint programs. Used Deluxe Paint mostly. Tried otu Photon paint, then moved to Brilliance. The Framebuffer had a paint program designed for it, uPaint I think it was, that allowed you to paint the NTSC images to the Framebuffer by using the trick of it being in black and white on the native Amiga screen until send back to the Framebuffer.
 
Much later I got Opalvision, much easier obviously with its paint program and drawing direct to the display. Then a DMI Resolver board that has a paint program that actually runs on the board and was very fast, not tied into the Amiga for its speed. later in my quest for Amiga goodness I got the external "boxes" that enhanced the Amiga display. Ham-E which is hard to find since they came and went from the market so fast, DCTV and Graffiti.

[beller]

Speaking of digitizers, did anyone use Snappy?  I was tempted but after Digital Creations became play my discount seemed to go with the transition and I really didn't have a clone that would work with it.

Snappy is a direct relative of DCTV....

[T3000]

I actually have one of the Opalvision Video Editing sets. Unfortunately it causes the Amiga not to boot.

Awesome! Not many of the OpalVision Editing Suites made it out to market. Would like to see one in action.

I ended up getting a Mimietics Framebuffer since it could display as well as grab in full NTSC images output from VistaPro, Imagine, and even with ArtPro you could send anything to it.

I have one of those Mimtecs FrameBuffers. Damn thing ran so hot I had to put heatsinks and a fan on the ram chips to keep the A2000 from failing. Needed a seperate display monitor if I recall.

Then a DMI Resolver board that has a paint program that actually runs on the board and was very fast, not tied into the Amiga for its speed.

Friend of mine back in the day had a DMI Resolver. That was an awesome display card also. Way before RTG. Tricky to set up. Made World Construction set real nice to work with.


ahhh, the memories...

[pwermonger]

Awesome! Not many of the OpalVision Editing Suites made it out to market. Would like to see one in action.

I would love to see one also since I have a working Video Toaster 4000 as well. Would be nice to compare the two though not a complete comparison since the Opalvision software was never completed nor as updated as Toaster.
 

I have one of those Mimtecs FrameBuffers. Damn thing ran so hot I had to put heatsinks and a fan on the ram chips to keep the A2000 from failing. Needed a seperate display monitor if I recall.

Yes, Mimetics framebuffer was exactly that, a simple NTSC framebuffer. It has an RCA composite in and out and all software control is done using software running, and displayed, on the Amiga using its standard screen. That's why uPaint ran on the Amiga in black and white (or HAM another thing that I havent used in ages so I dont recall) then rendered over to the Framebuffer. I never had an issue with the RAM overheating. My original card was an early one with no backplane. I ordered the capture option and when installed that caused it not to work. So I sent it back to them for repair, by then no longer Mimetics, and they mistakenly sent me back two Mimetics Genlocks. I sent those back since they had messed up and I ended up getting a brand new card. All for only the money I paid for the capture option. I mainly used it with AdPro to send pictures to the card. I think there was a version of an image display program that natively displayed to it but I dont recall it offhand.
 
Oh, one amusing thing was, when it displayed an image my parents would get a ghost of the image on the TV downstairs depending on what channel they were watching.
 

Friend of mine back in the day had a DMI Resolver. That was an awesome display card also. Way before RTG. Tricky to set up. Made World Construction set real nice to work with.

DMI Resolver is seriously neat, for the day. Very fast for a display like that at that time. Too bad they never got real RTG to it. It's price pretty much meant it wasnt too popular. I got it much later on for $25 and its sitting in my 3000UX which I hope to eventually get Unix installed on to see if it works with the Resolver like its works with the 2410.