Paint Programs on the Amiga

[@dghummel1956]

I was a textile designer in 1993 and bought an A500 and DeLuxe Paint III to create my designs. At the time, I was able to pay off my Amiga with the money I received from drawings done in DeLuxe Paint. I still use DPaint, but just for fun, as I am now retired. Great video. Thanks!

[@theeightytwentyrule]

Deluxe Paint 3 came packaged with my A600. Planted the seeds of a long creative career.

[@ukranaut]

It was a time when there was a very special almost magical feeling about computers and software which modern technologies somehow lack.

[@MikeyGRetro]

I agree, it was an exciting time. Not quite the same today with the internet and social media.

[@tlilmiztli]

Fun fact - it took nearly 30 years for mirror tool (symmetry tool as its called now) to make it to Photoshop. Symmetry was added to Photoshop few years ago. What they were bloody waiting for?! As for tile effect - I cant be sure, but its possible that its still not in Photoshop to this day :D Cant check since I moved to Affinity Photo but it amazes me that we had tools in the 90s on Amiga that are fairly recently added to Photoshop - software that fancy itself a "industry leading software" :D :D :D Great video, thank you!

[@MikeyGRetro]

Yep that is crazy. Affinity is good, I make my thumbnails in Affinity Designer. :-)

[@billirwin3558]

My kids loved the paint apps on the A500. And I still use PPaint on my A1200 from time to time for the odd graphic here and there. Thank you for reminding us how advanced the Amiga was in it's day.

[@MikeyGRetro]

Thats great to hear younger generation enjoying DPaint.

[@alanhaynes4576]

Sadly, too many still think of the Amiga as a long gone, museum piece for display and collectors who love to make KZbin videos about their collections, but I love those few like Mikey G who help us to run Winuae and via it the Amiga software that can work extremely well at blazing fast speeds on a modern PC. Don't get me wrong as I believe all Amiga promoters play an important part in keeping this amazing OS alive, but it is those who work to a potential future revival through modern hardware and applications that can bring it back out of the museum. I run it on my Win10 PC and currently it runs blazingly fast compared to a stock Amiga. All we really need is an up-to-date Web Browser like another new version of IBrowse, new Printer drivers, a proper USB stack we will almost be there. I have a Vampire V2 but am looking forward to the Buffee from Renee Cousins but also AROS and its real potential.

[@vcv6560]

Would you consider doing a survey of 3D ray-tracers? This was another area where the Amiga made people look twice a new field in desktop system. The ones I think of would be: Sculpt 3D, Turbo Silver, Opticks and perhaps Sculpt-Animate 4D. A simple scene of a few objects and a light souce or two. ALSO: Do it with a Amiga 3000 in emulation for the comparison and pick only one to run in Amiga 500 mode just to show how important this was that people put big $$ into expanding the capability of their systems. About 2 years ago I saved from extinction a A2000 with 030 card and DKB memory expansion 32M of 32 bit memory and a DKB Super Agnus upgrade. Also had two hard disks, and a Syquest drive in the 5.25 slot. Finally an ASDG multi-serial card. My guess is this was a workhorse of a video production shop; not for titling (no Toaster) but for creating 3D animations. The serial card I assume went to a single frame recorder, and the Syquest 44M removable hard drive was probably used to save completed projects. Thank you for this channel, demoing this software and preserving Amiga history.

[@greentroll9326]

you mean like with light wave that was used a lot back then with the moving lamp anim

[@Turrican]

I'm a big fan of Amiga productivity software. I hope you cover word processing and spreadsheets! There were many!

[@alanhaynes4576]

Absolutely and I used Wordworth, Maxiplan plus, Superbase 2 with the serial port dongle, Deluxe Paint III, Deluxe Print II - Awesome program. Kindwords II, Pagesetter, Amiga Vision and a few others I can't remember right now but I still have them packed away safely.

[@eoinlundy]

Thanks. I’d be interested in a dpaint tutorial.

[@10MARC]

Great video! Nice to see someone else covering the great productivity and creative software on the Amiga! Cloanto has not owned Personal Paint in a long time. It is owned by A-Eon now.

[@MikeyGRetro]

Thanks Doug for the correction. Glad your enjoying the videos. :-)

[@OeHomestead]

DP was great, but Brilliance was so much better :-)

[@JamesEzell]

Are you going to do one on Lightwave?

[@MikeyGRetro]

I will try to, I have had a play with it but I'm not very confident with it so want to get to a stage where I am and then I can make a video. :-)

[@alanhaynes4576]

Mikey, I would love to see a video on DP Animation.

[@Midwinter2]

The clown image at 8:25 is not, in fact, displayed using the Amiga's HAM mode. You can see from the palette on the left that it's displayed using 64-colour halfbrite mode. The software helpfully explains that in this video as the image is being loaded. It indicates that the original image was saved in 256 colours. It then tells us it's remapping the colours to 64-colour halfbrite mode - and sure enough, that's what we get! That's the explanation for the noticable dithering.

[@gd515051]

Digi-Paint was another that went along with Digi-View that was really cool. Interlaced HAM back then was almost photo quality.

[@davidhadaway2181]

I have looked at this for years (and had the software when I owned a real amiga) but never used it) So emulation is all I have now and getting back into productivity on WinUAE as Amiga is so much nicer to use. It is very old and lacks the modern connectivity to social networks etc but WP and graphics are still awesome. I am tinkering with ScalaMM and would love a nice video on how to get into this on a more serious level. Same as Final Writer. Thanks Mikey and I have learned a lot from you

[@MikeyGRetro]

Hi David, glad you are enjoying the videos. I think not having social networks in Amiga is a good thing :-) Regards ScalaMM I will add this to the list. My friend gifted me his copy which he won in Amiga Format magazine back in the day. Disks all still working great. Not used if before but will be learning it :-)

[@daren42]

I had DPaint 3 with my A600. One of the rather amateurish works I created was done mostly by testing the smear function. You will never guess what I called it. (Bear in mind I was about 16-18 at the time).

[@colinthomson7518]

i like to use d paint on amiga for my retro drawings.

[@cv643d]

Im using latest PPC PPaint on my 4.1 system, reason I got into next gen Amiga.

[@MikeyGRetro]

Not tried PPC version, will hopefully explore that in the future.

[@xsm5525]

what about Spritz? that was a really good one. for the time it came out anyway - 1988

[@mrgodBG]

nice!

[@rogerandrelassen3355]

TVPaint ?

[@MikeyGRetro]

I'll check it out thanks :-)

[@LuisDiaz-uu7xg]

Hello very cool video, thanks !!! Amos pro maybe too ?

[@martinandroid2538]

I never really used Dpaint that much for artwork as I found using a mouse to draw a pain in the... I spent quite some time with Sculpt 3D and later Imagine 3D. That reminds me I promised The Guru Meditation I was going to remake Kahnanka 3D by Ken Offer, quite some time ago.

[@MikeyGRetro]

You make a good point about the mouse. Today under emulation and optical mice it is much easier but on the real hardware ball mice were a bit of a pain.

[@chezchezchezchez]

Imagine !!!!!!!!! I used Imagine 2. Loved it! Made many animations!

[@martinandroid2538]

@@MikeyGRetro A bit! lol

[@martinandroid2538]

@@chezchezchezchez I think I used Imagine 2 as well. It was free on a magazine cover disk!

[@LemurKrazy]

@@MikeyGRetro even a wacom…

[@panasonicdiet3691]

How do you record the Amiga please

[@AmigaRulz]

Photon Paint, anyone? 😃

[@jenniferpsaki6176]

More than 30 years have passed since DeluxePaint, and PhotoShop still lacks many useful features!!! (drawing lines with the number of dots, kaleidoscope = mirror drawing etc.)