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From: kent@swrinde.nde.swri.edu (Kent D. Polk)
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Subject: Re: Paint&animation package
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Date: 8 Jan 91 17:16:24 GMT
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In article <1404@tardis.Tymnet.COM> jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith) writes:
>>In article <37013@cup.portal.com> amigan@cup.portal.com (R Michael Medwid) writes:
>>>Another way to put it, what do you expect from dPaint IV?  
>
>In article <346@swrinde.nde.swri.edu> kent@swrinde.nde.swri.edu (Kent D. Polk) writes:
>>To run correctly under 2.0 and on a 3000.
>
>What problems are you talking about?  I haven't had any problems with
>Deluxe Paint III on my A3000.  (I'm talking about the 'fixed' Dpaint-III,
>the one that has "PAL" and "NTSC" as options on the startup screen.)
>The very first release if Dpaint-III did not run properly on a standard
>A2000 if you had run 'morerows', but the current release works fine.

Brand new DPaintIII. Has the PAL & NTSC options. Don't know anything more about
it being 'fixed' or not.

1) Many operations (especially animation calculations) run as fast (or
seemingly) slower than on an a2000. I'll admit I haven't measured this
stuff. While we are at it, how about 68881/2 support?  After all...

2) Crashes on a VERY regular basis, regardless of the state of the
caches.  Essentially isn't stable enough to let it sit back and
calculate frames by itself under 2.0. Has to run under 1.3 to
accomplish anything, and I ended up making a 10M data partition since
the partition gets trashed every time it crashes while writing data
under 1.3. (Thank C= this doesn't happen under 2.0)

While this isn't all that's wrong, these two are enough to send it
back, and puts it in the same category as WordPerfect - Nice features,
but unusable. (Takes about 5 tries to hit a WP requestor button)

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I'll stop here...

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