[PeterHolzwarth]

Shoutout to the legendary Deluxe Paint III. I worked with people who, 30 years after the release, still kept an old computer running just to be able to use Dpaint II and III. They said it was the best pixel editor ever made.

[3036e4]

There is the open source VGA Paint 386 to get something similar: https://www.bttr-software.de/products/vp386/

Runs in DOSBox (i.e. runs everywhere and can be expected to keep working).

And of course also the open sourced A**desk Animator on various platforms (but I run that in DOSBox as well... great for doodling on the phone).

https://github.com/AnimatorPro

[JetSetIlly]

There's also PyDPainter. A reimplementation in python. https://pydpainter.org/

[_mlbt]

Fun fact, Deluxe Paint I was open sourced…

https://computerhistory.org/blog/electronic-arts-deluxepaint...

[3036e4]

Unfortunately only shows the source code "for non-commercial use".

[roskelld]

DPaint III finally granted me the ability to create animation, which was always one of my early dreams to be able to do. I combined my obsession of Lemmings with Judge Dread to create a series of shorts following the exploits of Judge Lem. Sad that I no longer have the disks for them, but I'm so thankful for how amazing and accessible DPIII was.

[kuhewa]

hahahaha Judge Lem. Bring it back

[teddyh]

Modern work-alike: GrafX2 <https://pulkomandy.tk/projects/GrafX2>

[Jzush]

Dpaint III was amazing. The ability to do calculated animation was way ahead of it's time. Too bad I couldn't get anything exported from my Amiga 500 :(

[egometry]

DP2e is one of the reasons I still use DOSBox

[zem]

deluxepaint and fantavision were both amazing beginner-friendly art and animation (respectively) apps from the dos era, whose equivalents i have yet to see.

[ekianjo]

Not deluxe paint IV?

[PeterHolzwarth]

Heck, let's be honest: all revs were excellent. But, the artists I am referring to preferred dpaint 2/3.