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Deluxe Paint on the Commodore Amiga


Back when EA was cool, they packaged their software in album-style sleeves and promoted their developers like rock stars. I was a Dan Silva groupie.

I need a Chuck Tingle book about my love for this software.From Windows desktop, I'm "ready to paint" in about 30 seconds and the sight of that familiar toolbar feels like a small reunion. A slim vertical column, it's neatly packed with the tools you’ll spend nearly all of your time in: brushes plain and dotted, shapes filled and unfilled, airbrush, text, magnification, and my personal favorite "symmetry." While working through the tutorial, I jump into modern programs for direct comparisons: DPaint.js, Aseprite, PixiEditor 2.0(released while I was writing this), Pro Motion NG, and Affinity Photo.

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