In a message of 23 Jul 96 Dave Freeman wrote to me:

 DW>> It sounds to me like it is time you dumped DPaint and got a hold of
 DW>> PPaint.

 DF> I've considered it.  At the moment I have enough commitments on my
 DF> money that I can do without more expenditure of this sort (and do

An earlier version of PPaint was given away on a recent Aminet disk.  I
picked up v6.2 of PPaint from Amadeus for the princely sum of $50 a while
back.  It didn't have the box, that's why it was cheap.  Oh, it is also
available on CD with a bunch of other programs for $99.

 DF> without the time needed to learn another new paint program well enough
 DF> to use it effectively...).  I'm already on the back of a fairly steep

It is very similar to DPaint.  I picked it up within 30 minutes.

 DF> learning curve for all the new software I've bought in the last few
 DF> months without adding another package.  Mind you, it's kinda fun having
 DF> all these new toys to play with but it takes even more of my spare time
 DF> to get comfortable with them.

This is true.  And I'm still looking for a decent Dopus for the IBuM,  So
far the best is a shareware program called File Plus.

 DW>> It works well with my Spectrum card, too.  Oh, and apart from that you
 DW>> can directly load and save GIF, PNG, PCX, etc. 

 DF> That's what I have AdPro on the Amiga and ThumbsPlus (and other

I used to use ImageFX to convert to iff so I could import piccies into
DPaint, now I only have to convert jpegs.  ;-)

 DF> packages) on the Win95 machine for.

I prefer Graphic Workshop on the IBuM for that...


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