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Original IFF Deluxe Paint images from back in the day, courtesy of the Amiga Graphics Archive.

This is the one that always makes me think of DPaint:

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[–] 58008@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

I just got nuclear nostalgia whiplash when I scrolled down and saw this:

I used to play with those brushes as a kid, and I'd completely forgotten about it until just now!

[–] Maiq@piefed.social 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

I had Brilliance but I remember the image of Tutankhamen's although i don't remember where from. I dont remember if I had Deluxe Paint or not.

I wish I still had my Amiga. Maybe I'll try to find a way to install it in qumu.

[–] Deebster 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Brilliance also has a page on that site - that image looks familiar, was it on the box cover?

[–] Maiq@piefed.social 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Yes it was, it was also the splash/loading screen when you fired it up. It had a key held in a memory card type thing. I wanted the video toaster so bad! I was like 13-ish with aspirations of doing computer animation. I owned this on VHS Beyond the Minds Eye and accredit it for my journey into computers, graphic design and even programming. Although I never did get that video toaster, however I do own blender and dink around from time to time.

[–] Twig@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'd imagine FS-UAE would be the quicker way to fire up an Amiga?

or maybe https://taws.ch/WB.html to get a taste of Workbench again

[–] Maiq@piefed.social 2 points 2 weeks ago

Was quickly researching last night and it didnt seem too complicated although looking and doing can be completely different things. I'll check out your link, thanks!

[–] Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I had Brilliance back then too, somehow I find it easier to use, than DPaint. Not sure why. Unfortunately I don’t have Amiga anymore, but at least I have unforgettable memories from that era. Oh, now I got something in my eye, sorry.

[–] Maiq@piefed.social 2 points 1 week ago

It is better to have had an Amega and lost it than to have never had an Amega at all.

I feel your pain.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I never could figure out how HAM mode was supposed to work. Whenever I tried it colours bled everywhere and just made a mess.

[–] VictoriaFerryRetroGeek@piaille.fr 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

@Blackmist @Deebster at some point around 1996, for the "tint " demo of tbl, it was discovered that if you asked to change value in order rgbbrgbbrgbb there was no bleeding, thus perfect 18bit truecolor on aga

[–] DmMacniel@feddit.org 4 points 2 weeks ago

I don't know where we got it back then, but I fondly remember the Lost Ark on our Amiga 500.