The copy protection scheme was later dropped. Įarly versions of Deluxe Paint were available in protected and non copy-protected versions, the latter retailing for a slightly higher price. Dpaint was used by LucasArts to make graphics for their adventure games such as Monkey Island, and is the source of the name of the main character in the Monkey Island series, Guybrush Threepwood - the character's name derived from a particular filename used to store his image data, which was named "guybrush.bbm". While widely used on the Amiga, these formats never gained widespread end user acceptance on other platforms, but were heavily used by game development companies. With the development of Deluxe Paint, EA introduced the ILBM and ANIM file format standards for graphics. Version 5 was the last release after Commodore's bankruptcy in 1994. Amiga manufacturer Commodore International later commissioned EA to create version 4.5 AGA to bundle with the new Advanced Graphics Architecture chipset ( A1200, A4000) capable Amigas. It was used almost ubiquitously in the making of Amiga games, animation and demoscene productions. Upon release, it was quickly embraced by the Amiga community and became the de facto graphics (and later animation) editor for the platform. As author Dan Silva added features to Prism, it was developed as a showcase product to coincide with the Amiga's debut in 1985. Historyĭeluxe Paint began as an in-house art development tool called Prism.
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It was eventually ported to other platforms, including a DOS version for the PC which became the standard for pixel graphics in computer games in the 1990s, the only competitor being Autodesk Animator Pro. The original Deluxe Paint was created for the Commodore Amiga 1000, and released in November 1985.
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Deluxe Paint V on the Amiga, showing the "Venus" picture (a detail from The Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli), included with the program as a sample pictureĭeluxe Paint, DeluxePaint or simply DPaint is a bitmap graphics editor series originally created by Dan Silva for Electronic Arts (EA).