This is the kind of innovation that we need back. Or even, frankly, a functional clone would be useful. Add in the depth of colour and other enhancements that have come since, with the intuitive and often simplistic user interface of DPaint, and we'd have something wonderful. This needs to be on Linux!
i need some help from you people who have dpaint 4 and 5, i need a full copy of both of them so i can put it in my old PC-3 LAPTOP COMPUTER, i want to run it on this laptop soon.
Deluxe Paint is a whole lot better than MS Paint, and that being that advanced at the that time, when Microsoft Windows 3.1 or something was being created, this was way way way way more advanced and still is. I never had an Amiga, since I am only 13, but my dad had a commodore 64 and since Amiga was like a commodore like Commodore-Amiga, he told me they were almost the same, and well yeah a little except, Amiga had a workbench where you had folders with apps, similar to windows from 95 to now.
a result of deluxe paint its a awesome animation called "amy the squirrel a walk in the park" from eric w shwartz and its from 1995.... simple and awesome..
This was one of my favorite Amiga program together with ProTracker. Even today I like it a lot because it was simple to understand but yet powerful! I was 10 years old doing animations on a computer in 1989, how about that?
@platinumaccount dude don't fucking forget that this is the 80's not the 2000 - 2010 crap of now.
Computer mechanics where at a very low level at that time, compared to what they had in that time and what they have now, this is fucking futuristic and microsoft could actually learn from this instead of stealing crap like they are used to do.
@Tensorskills Nobody could understand if they not lived this. I mean... ok, look at this right now, without considering the hardware specs. Take a look NOW: we have lots of GB of RAM, lots of ROM, lots of GHz... and... ok, they done this with: 512K of RAM, maybe without ROM, 7MHz... and today we're still doing the same things. At the times, PC and MAC users saw at max 4 colors. We have here 4096 colors. Micro$oft steald EVERYTHING, from DO$ to Window$. This is INVENTION and PURE GENIUS.
@romet747: using an emulator (eg: winuae) you can reproduce amiga operating system and even emulate a pen tablet. Then you can launch deluxe paint from this environment (try planetemu to get a deluxepaint copy)...and voila! Welcome to the world of pixellling.
dpaint still amazes me.. like most amiga programs it was sooo easy to use. as a kid i didn't even understand english and still i was able to find out about how it works within a short time! lots of fun
So true... :D Deluxe Paint was way ahead then and it still kinda whoops Photoshop (for example), because Photoshop has no animation feature not even today.
@Koseiku Of course it is. MS Paint is just for really basic functionality, while this was sold as high end commercial software and had to evolve rather quickly.
I saw a demonstration of a modern program that was very much like DeluxePaint with anim brushes, etc.. But with full colour. Unfortunately, for the life of me I cannot remember what it's called. :(
I used to have deluxe paint 4 and a mouse, used to love my amiga! I had 1230 blizzard accelerator and a 420 meg harddisk.. those were the days, cant beleive it was so long ago :(
I downloaded Grafx2. It's pretty facinating thus far... is there any guide on its use? Specifically animation. I just couldn't find that option if it was there.
Well I looked through some old software I downloaded a while back and I discovered I did have Deluxe Paint Animation for PC-Dos. I don't know how it compares to the Amiga version (I hear it pales by comparison), and it was interesting. It would take a lot of artistic skill to make the same stuff that Eric Schwartz created, that's for sure, but it's very do-able.
CAn anyone say that any animation program for the PC can match this? Nothing can. It was simple and effective and anim brushes where the biz. I spent hours with this program. Thanks for your time and upload. Thankyou,
I took my very first intro to computer graphics class on an Amiga back in 1992 over at Ray College of Design in Chicago using Deluxe Paint. Only scratched the surface of it, of course.
I grow up with deluxe paint (Amiga & Spectrum). It was such a great program and i really miss it AND I HATE THE FU***ING WINDOWS PAIN (WHAT A CRAP!!!)
WOW! Halfbright I thought I'd just imagined the darker colour thing.
This was THE best paint package I'd ever used followed closely by Photon Paint then Photoshop ;)
I did this amazing animation of a car pulling up to a house at night frame by frame using Halfbright for the headlights brushing past the house. Wish i still had it.
Well, actually Brilliance is a bit better, I rather use it than Deluxe Paint. Deluxe Paint is OK, very good program too. But Brilliance is just a bit more user-friendly, easy to use and flexible. Also the AGA-support is handled much better.. I think TrueBrilliance is also faster in HAM8 than DPaint V.
Deluxe Paint was a true masterpiece of programing. Excluding the number of colors and memory, Deluxe Paint still rivals any paint program of today for basic aitning and animation.
ahead of its time!
TrojanThug 1 day ago
Makes me miss my Amiga 1200 :(
bingefeller 1 day ago
If my memory serves, it fitted on 2 one meg floppy disks! Can you imagine that now? lol
Mydadsdog 6 days ago
What's with the crazy free-form jazz in the background? Haha!
andybpiano 1 week ago
i used artgem on the pc years ago because it was a clone of deluxe paint
Jaqshit 4 months ago
Wasn't it just great?
JohnWhitesideParsons 4 months ago
This is the kind of innovation that we need back. Or even, frankly, a functional clone would be useful. Add in the depth of colour and other enhancements that have come since, with the intuitive and often simplistic user interface of DPaint, and we'd have something wonderful. This needs to be on Linux!
SolarGranulation 5 months ago
Why oh why did no one create an animation app like DPaint for Windows?...
It was amazingly simple to use.... Bring back the Amiga!
Thank you Dan Silva, you are a legend
pyrofella 6 months ago
This was the dog's bollocks in 1990.
LaurelVentura 7 months ago
Dan Silva is a legend!
UL439 7 months ago 2
Realtime in 1989! omg. :) Try that now! 'rendering'
tubelator 7 months ago
Wow, it can even animate! Whatever happened to this great piece of software?
BigRedUnderpants1 8 months ago
i need some help from you people who have dpaint 4 and 5, i need a full copy of both of them so i can put it in my old PC-3 LAPTOP COMPUTER, i want to run it on this laptop soon.
kenny18667 9 months ago
I still use DPaint IV AGA to this day
nicholasthetaylor 9 months ago
I won't lie, i've been using PCs for all my life, Macs for the past 2-3 years, soon to get an A1200 :D ...
But honestly, i have never seen ANYTHING that is easy as Deluxe Paint...
speewave 9 months ago
@speewave
Try Promotion a great DPaint-clone for PC. Almost as easy UI and even more an better functionality in some areas.
ianajax 8 months ago
Microsoft paint has never bee developed to any level its just some bloatware So dont moan at it when it cost nothing.
NielsShoe 10 months ago
Why did Deluxe Paint die? It should have evolved into something like Photoshop. It was years ahead of all the other paint programs.
hannahfontana69 11 months ago
Deluxe Paint is a whole lot better than MS Paint, and that being that advanced at the that time, when Microsoft Windows 3.1 or something was being created, this was way way way way more advanced and still is. I never had an Amiga, since I am only 13, but my dad had a commodore 64 and since Amiga was like a commodore like Commodore-Amiga, he told me they were almost the same, and well yeah a little except, Amiga had a workbench where you had folders with apps, similar to windows from 95 to now.
ChristopherSmith2010 11 months ago
Delete MS Paint and download deluxe paint 3 xD
MrRambo4 1 year ago 4
@MrRambo4 bad idea. better download deluxe paint 5 ;)
KO03HR 10 months ago
It has cooler things than flash
Tayp1234 1 year ago
Man, I loved my Amigas. I had 4 over the years. Deluxe Paint was great for the day.
zakspop 1 year ago
I made thousands of paintings in Deluxe Paint on my Amiga. I never found a program so easy to use for my PC's.
Deluxe Paint was super!
hparcs 1 year ago
“I’m not storing the picture. I’m only storing the difference between the picture. So you can get much more use out of your memory”.
Amazing. This way of storing images/animations was what would become the commonplace “MPEG” that we all know of.
Amiga was way ahead of its time.
masmddds 1 year ago
a result of deluxe paint its a awesome animation called "amy the squirrel a walk in the park" from eric w shwartz and its from 1995.... simple and awesome..
CamoteMaster 1 year ago
I used to love this when I was young - the great thing about it was you could do very complex animations and you didn't need 400gb to do it!
weneverbak 1 year ago
I used to love the animation stuff in this...made my silly Indiana Jones movies when I was like 10...
PeterBKKBJJ 1 year ago
This was one of my favorite Amiga program together with ProTracker. Even today I like it a lot because it was simple to understand but yet powerful! I was 10 years old doing animations on a computer in 1989, how about that?
fredrik999z 1 year ago
Jesus christ, the middle of a massive technological revolution and they find the most boring people imaginable to do a show about it.
richardmaudsley77 1 year ago
i wouldnt call that 3d... its good but COME ON
platinumaccount 1 year ago
@platinumaccount dude don't fucking forget that this is the 80's not the 2000 - 2010 crap of now.
Computer mechanics where at a very low level at that time, compared to what they had in that time and what they have now, this is fucking futuristic and microsoft could actually learn from this instead of stealing crap like they are used to do.
Tensorskills 1 year ago
@Tensorskills Nobody could understand if they not lived this. I mean... ok, look at this right now, without considering the hardware specs. Take a look NOW: we have lots of GB of RAM, lots of ROM, lots of GHz... and... ok, they done this with: 512K of RAM, maybe without ROM, 7MHz... and today we're still doing the same things. At the times, PC and MAC users saw at max 4 colors. We have here 4096 colors. Micro$oft steald EVERYTHING, from DO$ to Window$. This is INVENTION and PURE GENIUS.
ciolamorta 1 year ago
is there no way anymore to get this?
romet747 1 year ago
@romet747: using an emulator (eg: winuae) you can reproduce amiga operating system and even emulate a pen tablet. Then you can launch deluxe paint from this environment (try planetemu to get a deluxepaint copy)...and voila! Welcome to the world of pixellling.
4narkhya 1 year ago
@romet747 buy it on ebay or something, in my country we have a website called marktplaats.
pokerockmario123 1 year ago
Deluxe Paint was brilliant.... the animation tools were wonderful...
I still own two working Amiga 2000s - love them!
Thanks Dan Silva - you were amazing!
pyrofella 1 year ago
grafx2 is a decent open source clone
walter0bz 1 year ago
That interviewer sounded hard to please. He didn't seem impressed by anything he was shown. I used to LOVE Deluxe paint.
Anyone remember HAM mode? You could get a whopping 4096 colours on screen at once!
Dan Silva was a god :)
marcel911 2 years ago 4
Yeah I remember Ham. The top resolution model always did my eyesight in so I never used.
JimmyC1983 1 year ago
dpaint still amazes me.. like most amiga programs it was sooo easy to use. as a kid i didn't even understand english and still i was able to find out about how it works within a short time! lots of fun
AValidMember 2 years ago 34
Imagine how long it took them to make the music video for Junior Senior!
djmikedee 2 years ago
God this brings back memories. Nowadays it's all Photoshop and Flash but Deluxe Paint 3 will always have a place in my heart.
OllyKilo 2 years ago 4
those where the days! =)
slimSEBIhamburg 2 years ago
Deluxe paint was more fun than playing games. I used to make animations with the brushes that change when you prssed tab. Wish I had them still.
smash4686 2 years ago 4
Nessuno pari a lui nemmeno oggi!!!
iomiconosco 2 years ago
This was the real deal back in the days. But comparing this to Adobe Photoshop is just ridiculous. :)
Databamse 2 years ago
Haha. Deluxe Paint from 1989 is better than MS Paint from 2009.
Koseiku 2 years ago 96
so true
JegHarEnLillePik 2 years ago 2
So true... :D Deluxe Paint was way ahead then and it still kinda whoops Photoshop (for example), because Photoshop has no animation feature not even today.
micarone 2 years ago 4
@micarone: Gimp or Photoshop are doing good with 32bits painting, Dpaint is good as a 8bits pixelling tool. Thats just not the same worlds.
4narkhya 1 year ago
@Koseiku ya, 20 years and we took a step backward. lol
chrismofer 1 year ago
@Koseiku Of course it is. MS Paint is just for really basic functionality, while this was sold as high end commercial software and had to evolve rather quickly.
InvisibleSandwichTM 8 months ago
are there any open-source clones of this
walter0bz 2 years ago 2
nightmares of having clear and undo next to each other!!!
tmcthree 2 years ago
Deluxe Paint were so innovative it's still unbeatable nowadays - amazing! :) - features from this picture editor are still unique
nitturo 2 years ago
Fricken so awesome. I remember having a ball making mini animations back in the days with this program!
Even today there isn't one particular painting program does all this! Amazing shit!
Wiilovewii 2 years ago 5
what is dan silva doing now?
doktorfuture 2 years ago
I saw a demonstration of a modern program that was very much like DeluxePaint with anim brushes, etc.. But with full colour. Unfortunately, for the life of me I cannot remember what it's called. :(
carm3d 2 years ago
Promotion
paulbrk 2 years ago
Promotion from Cosmigo.
paulbrk 2 years ago
Yeah that's probably it. Pity I am no longer in the biz of making DPaint-style animations. It's all about 3D now.
carm3d 2 years ago
I used to have deluxe paint 4 and a mouse, used to love my amiga! I had 1230 blizzard accelerator and a 420 meg harddisk.. those were the days, cant beleive it was so long ago :(
roughruffian 3 years ago
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Hotshotter3000 3 years ago
I was hooked on D Paint III when I had my miggy 600
kevinbrighton 3 years ago
Why don't they make more programs like this?
Hotshotter3000 3 years ago 2
Brilliant,brilliant program.Never had so much fun.God i wish they made D-paint now.
jasonithompson 3 years ago 2
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paulbrk 2 years ago
deluxe paint started it all. Im a graphic artist and owe it alot on this great software. Kudos to Dan Silva
reybonifacio 3 years ago 2
What's a simple 2d/3d Paint/animation program (simaler to Deluxe Paint) i can download for PC? Please.
hoffmachine 3 years ago
Search for Grafx2. It's pretty similar to Deluxe Paint, and will work on modern PCs.
RABBIDGamfan 3 years ago
I downloaded Grafx2. It's pretty facinating thus far... is there any guide on its use? Specifically animation. I just couldn't find that option if it was there.
Hotshotter3000 3 years ago
There don't seem to be...
RABBIDGamfan 3 years ago
Well I looked through some old software I downloaded a while back and I discovered I did have Deluxe Paint Animation for PC-Dos. I don't know how it compares to the Amiga version (I hear it pales by comparison), and it was interesting. It would take a lot of artistic skill to make the same stuff that Eric Schwartz created, that's for sure, but it's very do-able.
Hotshotter3000 3 years ago
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paulbrk 2 years ago
CAn anyone say that any animation program for the PC can match this? Nothing can. It was simple and effective and anim brushes where the biz. I spent hours with this program. Thanks for your time and upload. Thankyou,
fruitytube1 3 years ago 3
Believe it or not, Deluxe Paint and the Amiga 500 planted the seed for my career as a graphic designer.
heathazed 3 years ago 4
same here
kidcodea 3 years ago
Woah, Dan Silva, the Man, the Myth, the Legend... 1989!!
jci10 3 years ago 9
I took my very first intro to computer graphics class on an Amiga back in 1992 over at Ray College of Design in Chicago using Deluxe Paint. Only scratched the surface of it, of course.
magicianspirit 3 years ago
I grow up with deluxe paint (Amiga & Spectrum). It was such a great program and i really miss it AND I HATE THE FU***ING WINDOWS PAIN (WHAT A CRAP!!!)
carboumentliagaizka 3 years ago 3
better than vista's MS paint
MeshmanCoulcil 3 years ago
Still the best. Where is Dan?
mingepotato 3 years ago 3
WOW! Halfbright I thought I'd just imagined the darker colour thing.
This was THE best paint package I'd ever used followed closely by Photon Paint then Photoshop ;)
I did this amazing animation of a car pulling up to a house at night frame by frame using Halfbright for the headlights brushing past the house. Wish i still had it.
Excellent post!
simozonelayer 3 years ago
download amiga 2. look on google and there are tons
boratmania 3 years ago
Well, actually Brilliance is a bit better, I rather use it than Deluxe Paint. Deluxe Paint is OK, very good program too. But Brilliance is just a bit more user-friendly, easy to use and flexible. Also the AGA-support is handled much better.. I think TrueBrilliance is also faster in HAM8 than DPaint V.
gamorbab 3 years ago
Dan Silva is was/is a genius.
Deluxe Paint was a true masterpiece of programing. Excluding the number of colors and memory, Deluxe Paint still rivals any paint program of today for basic aitning and animation.
Webins 3 years ago 4
Where are programs like this today?!?! Makes me sick knowing I missed out on this.
del20nd 4 years ago
yes i agree, it was totally easy to use
AValidMember 4 years ago
My fav program all the times...
NeoSpirit 4 years ago 2
it was sooooo easy to make animations like this!
LoveDoctorNL 4 years ago 2
Wow, first time I have seen the programmer of this brilliant program!
beverins 4 years ago 2