A Clone of Deluxe Paint II Written in Python
If you want to see what a master of Deluxe Paint palette cycling can do check out Mark Ferrari's
http://www.effectgames.com/demos/canvascycle/ (hit "Show Options)
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It's funny to see this presented as a retro "pixel art" program. I mean I suppose it is given that it is based on a program nearly 40 years old, but the example image that is always shown with Deluxe Paint (and on this clone version's page too) is the famous picture of King Tut's mask. When I first saw that picture back in the day it was the first example of computer graphics that I had to look at twice to determine that it wasn't a photo -- the resolution, and the colors made it seem so real at first.
About 2-3 years ago, I was writing a clone of Deluxe Paint in C/Raylib (referencing the released source code). I got about 50% done and lost my incentive.
It's a big program with a lot of features and caveats, so seeing a completed version is awesome. Congrats.
Also shoutout to DPaint.js, which runs in the Browser: https://github.com/steffest/DPaint-js/
(Though I will say that Aseprite has taken over as my preferred Pixel Art editor.)
I'd love to know how long the original artist took to paint that image!
I imagine many hours of squinting at a CRT screen, with absolutely nothing better to do. No internet, no mobile phones, apps, social medias, zit.
This is a very accurate recreation, impressive.
Be sure to try the color cycle mode by hitting tab.
If you are looking for an open source bitmap drawing program, [grafx2](http://grafx2.chez.com/) is worth checking out. Mature and with plenty of features. It was developed taking inspiration dpaint and brilliance
I wonder which paint programs have options to take account of that pixels on older computers often weren't square shaped.
For instance the Amiga had 16:15 (PAL) and 5:6 (NTSC) shaped¹ pixels.
Deluxe Paint!
Fond memories as I found it coming along with some game I got way back in the 90s for my Amiga 600.
Those were good times~
Pixel art paint programs are an underrated way to learn a lot about a programming language and how to apply various algorithms in that language. For the motivated learner they’re perfect as a third project once you’ve completed something like a todo list and pong. Easy to make as complicated as your ambition and skill level determine.
I know it doesn’t really matter, but this is one of the worst names for an app I’ve encountered.
Deluxe Paint was nice and all, but I happened to have DigiPaint for the same system, and boy it had some really wild (for 1989) features, like gradient fills, gradient color blending, fully adjustable transparency painting, and texture mapped manipulation. ALL in the HAM (4096 colors) mode!
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Deluxe Paint is what got me into graphic design. The hours I spent in front of that my Amiga pixellating away, no wonder I didn'g get at girlfriend in my teens.
Thanks! I shall use this to create pictures of hot dogs :)
I suck at computer art stuff, but what skills I do have came via many hours of practice with DPaint. It seemed like an impossible sci-fi system made real.
What a blast from the past!
Awesome job, giving me all the warm fuzzies from when I messed around doing the odd bit of pixel art on my old A500 way back when :)
This is so cool it brings an tear to an old mans eye. Thank you for doing this <3
There was a version of this even for the Atari ST.
Seriously, a pixel art painting program with a crude CRT scanline filter overlayed on top, at arbitrary scale instead of strictly enforcing perfect pixels? What is this for, to create a feeling of using an old computer? Even VGA had double scan at 320x200 resolution for better clarity.