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Title: Have any of you used old drawing programs?
Post by: Moox on Fri 07/05/2004 03:36:30
Have any of you used old drawing programs for an authentic oldschool game feel. I found a demo cd from 1992 with a really nice one I might use. If you have used one whats the name, and what do you like about it/features of it.
Title: Re: Have any of you used old drawing programs?
Post by: Domino on Fri 07/05/2004 03:39:28
I had PC Paintbrush circa 1993, but the 3.5" floppies i have went bad and i can no longer load the program on my computer.

Now, i'm using NeoPaint, but i really liked PC Paintbrush.

:'(
Title: Re: Have any of you used old drawing programs?
Post by: TerranRich on Fri 07/05/2004 03:58:55
PaintBrush! I remember that, back in the days of 16-color displays and 640x480 resolution. A classic. I once used a DOS painting program, I can't remember the name. DPaint mayhaps?
Title: Re: Have any of you used old drawing programs?
Post by: DGMacphee on Fri 07/05/2004 05:28:52
NeoPaint was a great proggy. And free too.

DPaint is another good one.

And the Autodesk Animator also has some useful tool for a DOS proggy.
Title: Re: Have any of you used old drawing programs?
Post by: Ishmael on Fri 07/05/2004 09:55:02
PaintBrush was like the most used program on our OLD computer back then early 90's.... My laptop has pbursh.exe, but running it opens Paint... >:(
Title: Re: Have any of you used old drawing programs?
Post by: Andail on Fri 07/05/2004 10:20:42
We had a program called DrHalo on our first PC. This was around 90-91.
It was awesome.
Title: Re: Have any of you used old drawing programs?
Post by: Robert Eric on Fri 07/05/2004 11:18:00
I used to use a program called Grafx.  I'm not sure if it's old though.  I also used to play around with the Paint that came with the Win 3.1 on my old 486.
Title: Re: Have any of you used old drawing programs?
Post by: remixor on Fri 07/05/2004 11:30:34
PaintBrush was probably the earliest graphics app I used.  I didn't really use my computer for graphics much back then, but I remember when they switched the name of the program to Paint (in what, Win95 I think?) I felt kind of sad for some reason.
Title: Re: Have any of you used old drawing programs?
Post by: Gilbert on Fri 07/05/2004 11:36:48
Well I can't remember well but two of my first used graphics apps were Take One and a paint programme written in Applesoft basic (by myself) on Apple ][.
Title: Re: Have any of you used old drawing programs?
Post by: Kinoko on Fri 07/05/2004 12:27:25
Ahh, good old Deluxe Paint was my poison. I used to have SO much fun with the snowflake/mirror feature. *sigh* Now I'm gonna go and cry about how I don't have an Amiga anymore.
Title: Re: Have any of you used old drawing programs?
Post by: shbaz on Fri 07/05/2004 14:09:45
Quote from: Andail on Fri 07/05/2004 10:20:42
We had a program called DrHalo on our first PC. This was around 90-91.
It was awesome.

I remember Dr. Halo.. but back then I was only 7 or 8 so I didn't get a lot of use from it. I remember drawing simple things like happy faces and my dad would print it out and hang it on the fridge, haha.
Title: Re: Have any of you used old drawing programs?
Post by: TheDude on Fri 07/05/2004 14:16:19
I'd say Mario Paint was one of my first paint progs!! I didn't get a PC until about 1995 if I can remember. I loved that "game".
Title: Re: Have any of you used old drawing programs?
Post by: SSH on Fri 07/05/2004 14:22:49
MacPaint on a 128k Mac back in the mid-eighties somewhen. My Dad printed out my pics and hung them somewhere, too.
Title: Re: Have any of you used old drawing programs?
Post by: Rave on Fri 07/05/2004 15:56:49
QuoteI remember drawing simple things like happy faces and my dad would print it out and hang it on the fridge, haha.

Heh, thats cute. I remember drawing big elaborate drawings which used every color on the pallet, and then I would print them out. They would come out just SOGGY with ink and then I would wait for 5 min, blowing on it until it dried and ran upstairs to put it on the fridge. (and about every drawing I did took a major hit from the ink cartrage.) And then my dad would try and print a document and yell, "Where the $*#@ did all the ink go!!!". So then I just saved my work on the comp from then on.
Title: Re: Have any of you used old drawing programs?
Post by: Ashen on Fri 07/05/2004 16:02:02
Quote from: Kinoko on Fri 07/05/2004 12:27:25
Ahh, good old Deluxe Paint was my poison.

Yay, I remember that (about Deluxe Paint 5, I think). I used to be so amazed by the fact that I could actually produce animations, right there on my computer. I remember making little aminated credits for crappy 'films' me and my mates made with someone's video camera.
Title: Re: Have any of you used old drawing programs?
Post by: DGMacphee on Fri 07/05/2004 16:04:35
Kinoko, have you tried UAE?

It's probably the best Amiga emulator out there.

http://www.freiburg.linux.de/~uae/
Title: Re: Have any of you used old drawing programs?
Post by: Ben on Fri 07/05/2004 20:32:35
Deluxe Paint 2 on the PC.. I also tried Deluxe Paint 4 (Using WinUAE), but using an emmulator to do graphics just seems too complicated.
Title: Re: Have any of you used old drawing programs?
Post by: Chicky on Fri 07/05/2004 21:47:38
KIDPIX!!!! on my old mac, hell that was great. "ouch" "ohh no!" "ouch" , i loved that undo button. ohhhhh and dot forget the dynamite tool, cleared the whole screen it did.  ;D
Title: Re: Have any of you used old drawing programs?
Post by: Sluggo on Sat 08/05/2004 00:04:50
I use DPaint too, and I'm (sort of) still making a game in the old school style (if anyone actually remembers it). You could go to my website to check it out, but I only posted one screen shot. I haven't worked on it in a while, but I haven't cancelled it.
Title: Re: Have any of you used old drawing programs?
Post by: Dart on Sat 08/05/2004 01:52:17
Quote from: OSC on Fri 07/05/2004 21:47:38
KIDPIX!!!! on my old mac, hell that was great. "ouch" "ohh no!" "ouch" , i loved that undo button. ohhhhh and dot forget the dynamite tool, cleared the whole screen it did.Ã,  ;D


Oh my gosh... I completely forgot about that program. I used to repeatedly press the 'undo' button and the kids who sat around my computer would tell me to be quiet. And I adored the stamp collections and the eraser tools; hell, I enjoyed everything about that program.

You've brought a little bit of my childhood back to me. For that, I thank you.
Title: Re: Have any of you used old drawing programs?
Post by: Kinoko on Sat 08/05/2004 06:08:28
Quote from: DGMacphee on Fri 07/05/2004 16:04:35
Kinoko, have you tried UAE?

It's probably the best Amiga emulator out there.

http://www.freiburg.linux.de/~uae/

I've had one particular version of that emulator (and a bunch of some of my fave amiga games) for awhile, but I rarely use it anymore... it seemed to have a lot of problems. A lot of games wouldn't work with it, and I just hated having to redo all the settings everytime I opened the program. Mind you, there's probably a bunch of new and better versions out now, I'll have a look around later.