Personal paint 7.4 update

[amigakit.com]

PERSONAL PAINT 7.4 UPDATE: ARM NATIVE ACCELERATION FOR THE A600GS

A-EON Technology purchased rights to Personal Paint from Cloanto in 2014 which has led to notable development over the last decade for both Classic Amiga systems and Next Generation systems.


Personal Paint has a rich record of being bundled with home computers over the years. In 1996 PPaint 6.4 was part of the Escom's Amiga 1200 Magic Pack. Even more recently in 2016, PPaint 7.3 was bundled with A-EON's powerful X5000 computer system. In 2024 the tradition continues with a new version 7.4 being pre-installed on the forthcoming A600GS. Read full news by clicking here

A-EON's latest update to this famous paint package accelerates 1080P and larger high resolution screens. 1080P is the resolution that most HDMI televisions operate at and the default screen mode of the A600GS. The drawing tools at this resolution would ordinarily be very slow. However they have now been significantly accelerated by using ARM native code.
The latest Personal Paint 7.4 from A-EON is ready-to-run on the A600GS and will bring a nostalgic paint package experience to modern 1080P televisions.

Trevor Dickinson, A-EON’s co-founder commented: “Personal Paint became the leading easy-to-use Amiga program for bitmapped graphics and animation and was one of the first to support AGA and RTG. We developed updated versions for both 68K and PowerPC, and it's great to see the ARM accelerated version joining the family."

Personal Paint 7.4 will be launched in Q2/2024 on the A600GS computer system.

[eXeler0]

Would be cool if 68k version could use the ARM CPUs on the ZZ9000 for some slow filters / operations ;-)

[PerspexSphinx]

It really is Great news that Personal Paint is being updated.

From the picture though I just had some thoughts…

It would be nice to have some other default screen sizes available, like 800 x600 etc, although perhaps you can just enter them manually and save them?

But what I really wish, is that they would make the brush shapes (all 11 variants) on the side of the main toolbar, an option for the user to display or not (maybe an option in a menu or in tooltypes), since in my opinion it disfigures the clean aesthetics of PPaints original interface, and it's usefulness is somewhat questionable, especially since you already have the rather neat 9 "brush wells" popup that you can store your own brushes in. Oh… there's a point, why not make the "11 brush shapes" display in a popup toolbox like the hidden "brush wells", that would be elegant and more consistant.

[pixie]

It would be awesome if one could actually see the performance being added by arm in a comparison video.