CompuServe Thread

Picked up Deluxe Paint by Electronic Arts last night. Yes, it *is* finally shipping. The location was Computerland in Campbell, CA. DPaint comes with a 31 page booklet that gives a flavor for what the program will do, a few "experiments", and a terse *keyboard* command summary. There is also a "Reference Card and Manual Additions" fold out card; it tells you how to load DPaint, etc. (the booklet doesn't). I guess I'm not too unhappy about the level of documentation … this is a program that *MUST* be played with/experimented with to see what all the commands do … not sure I could describe some of the effects very clearly in words, either. Still a full Reference Section with a line or two about each command would be helpful (e.g., they mention someplace how to save to df1:, but not how to load from df1: … not very hard to figure it out though). More experiments would be real nice, too. Lots of goodies inside DPaint … I've barely scratched the surface of what can be done. I'm sure many of you have seen the pre-release version; you'll be happy to know that KingTut, Venus, and several other demos are on the released disk. BTW, the disk is completely full. A couple of points worth noting: (1) if you have a 256K Amiga, DPaint will supposedly run, but you loose alot of features; (2) 640 x 400 is supported, but flickers like the devil on a 1080 monitor; (3) I could not read any of the pictures I've painted with the pre-release version of GraphiCraft that I have, in any resolution (lo, med, hi) … both programs are *supposed* to be using the IFF standard format … hmmmmm; (4) I've been UNable to crash DPaint (so far) …. hooray! More on this later, after I've logged some "brush time" <grin>, /kim