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From: nj@magnolia.Berkeley.EDU (Narciso Jaramillo)
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Subject: Re: Is there a MacDraw-a-like for the Amiga?
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Date: 2 Mar 91 19:01:10 GMT
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gefrank@sdrc.COM (Frank Glandorf) writes::

> Is there something like the Macintosh's MacDraw for the Amiga?

I'm sure people have mentioned the popular commercial object-oriented
drawing programs--ProDraw is supposed to be quite nice.  Here's a plug
for my current pet project:

I'm currently designing an object-oriented drawing program to be
released as freely-redistributable software.  If anyone has any nifty
ideas that they want to see incorporated into it, or any interface
suggestions, please feel free to send me mail.  It will have an ARexx
interface and a standard way of adding tools, so anything really fancy
probably won't be directly built-in, but please send me suggestions
anyway.

Basically, I'm doing it because (1) trying to make an OOD easy enough
for novice users to learn quickly but extendable and streamlined
enough for expert users seems like an interesting interface design
problem, and (2) I don't know of any reasonably full-featured freely
redistributable OOD packages; the only one I've seen on the Fish disks
is mCAD way back in the #80s somewhere, which is pretty far out of
date.


nj