Etectronic Arts was tet in on the Amiga secret very early. They had the first prototypes in red wooden boxes. Straight away they knew that this was an amazing graphics machine. But they decided not to convert Prism Commodore bought the rights to the Amiga and came to the conclusion that the graphics potentia! of the Amiga was so great that they should bundle a pain! pro gram with the computer. This was enough to persuade Or you can right ctick to remove the image from the screen and only have it as a brush. Or you can ctick another part of the icon to get a tasse type feature which can cut out irregular shapes. it's a!! quite easy once you've tried it. Extra Hatf Britt (EHB) mode is only used by a handful of programs. DP tll Etectronic Arts that reinventing the whee! by setting a similar package was not a viable proposition on the Amiga so the company started work on Marbte Madness. When it became ctear that Commodore would not be developing a screen designer for the Amiga. EA stepped in. it laid down the spécification for IFF and set the standard for many of the features we now regard as the norm in Amiga programs. The success of Amiga DPaint!! led to its conversion for the IBM. OK, it is stiü stower on the most expensive, raciest PC than on a simple 500 Amiga. but then that is the faut! of hreadheads who buy from IBM. Even if we make them took footish they sti!) have to thank us for getting Detuxe Paint out of Etectronic Arts tabs and on to their screens. has joined them. It s great for creating shadows and a supptied example shows Fred Astair dancing over scenery. When! say over! mean the scenery shows through Fred's btack figure, ghost-tike, dimmed by the use of EHB cotours.! suspect DPaint tt! offering this witt mean more programmers waking up to the EHB possibitiües and. as many of the sprites you see in games are designed with DPaint! I, many of the death-beiching aliens you see in future wiü have bigger and better shadows. B] PAtNT ttl has onc feature. first seen in Photon Paint,! love it for the abitity to wrap a piccie around an object. Perhaps t've been reading too many computer graphics books with formulae ï don t understand we!!. looking at the pictures at toast but! stiü think that a mandriü wTapped around a teapot tocks better than real art. Video recording buffs have been known to buy an Amiga, DPaint and a gentock just to put tines tike "Gemma s 3rd Birthday" over a shot of candies being spat at.