Re: Graphics Program??

[obsbedia2@aol.com (Obsbedia2)]

Dave,
	8/16 is nice, but I have a prejudice against it because it's not really hard
drive installable.  It can be loaded and launched from the HD, but OPEN, SAVE,
& PRINT commands are disabled.  There are other idiosyncrasies, such as only
one font being available if I run 8/16 off of a FOCUS IDE hard drive on a
Platinum IIe, but all of the fonts available on a Platinum IIe if an external
20 Meg SCSI hard drive is used.  Six fonts isn't very many anyway.

	My cholce for an 8-bit Hi-Res paint program is SoftPaint  from SoftDisk #130
and a SoftDisk Trial Offer disk.  It's Mark Simonsen's update of his Grafix Pro
paint program,.  Essentially the same program, it still loads and runs off of
the hard drive, and now has a user-friendly interface for opening and saving
files from the hard drive.  The launching of the program is fast, now that it
assumes that the same device is being used for drawing each time it's run. 
This can be changed by pressing ESC when the program is first launching and
includes graphics tablet, mouse, touchpad/joystick and keyboard defaults.  The
color/pattern palette is an instant pop-up.  

	Although it only came with about 8 fonts, it can use all of the twenty-one
fonts that Grafix Pro uses.  You work on the entire screen at once, unlike such
programs as MousePaint (by the way, MousePaint IS hard drive installable IF you
use the version that comes on the Catalyst 3.0 system).  No, there is not a
PRINT function (darn) and double clicking was never supported for the menus,
but I still like this color HR program the best. 

I tried emailing Mark Simonsen just last week or two, but no answer.

Jay Edwards