XiPaint 4.0
Information in this page updated: 1 May 96
My Personal Experiences of this software/system
- Distributor:
- Stefan Ossowskis Schatztruhe
- Version:
- 4.0
XiPaint 4.0 Contains:
The Disk Contains 68000, 68020 and 68040 versions; localized for German,
English and Italian languages.
- Drivers for following graphic cards and modes:
- Picasso, EGS, Ham6, Ham8, 256 Color, Cybergraphics, VD2001,
Framemaster, Graffity, Merlin (Limited) and Retina.
- Drivers also supplied for WACOM graphic tablets; as well as
"Studio 2" And "Turbo Print".
- Printerd manuals has not been provided in the package as that would
have increased costs and thereby significantly elevated the selling
price. CD-ROM contains German and English documentation in the following
formats: AmigaGuide, ASCII, DVI, DeskJet, LaserJet, Postscript.
- Developer Pack for XiPaint 3.2
- This allows a programmer to adapt XiPaint to all raphic cards;
programming their own print module, loader, saver, scanner module and filter.
- Interface description for the Output library and the User Port.
- Source of xout_x.library, the ximulti I/O modules, and the filter
modules for smoothing and smear.
- Graphics: 600 MB - even available as JPEG
- Fonts in various formats
- Shareware:
- Wacom driver, required for the XiPaint Wacom driver interface,
version 1.50 by Roland Schwingel
- Graffity Emulation
- A complete WB-emulation for Omnibus, Picasso and Merlin graphic cards
- Demoloader by Helmut Hoffman
- External Drivers for loading a variety of graphic file formats into XiPaint
The Future of XiPaint
Version 4.0 already pioneers improvements such as animation and ray tracing.
Even so, there are still numerous extensions. I have tried to incorporate
"Natural Paint" functionality in 4.0, the release schedule prevented
its inclusion. It is however definitely planned for inclusion in version
4.1. Magic Fill is included in 4.0; a lasso-grab for brushes will however
nt be available until 4.1.
I've saved futher improvements for version 4.1 and higher. I'm always open to
suggestion for features which you urgently require that are not present in
the current XiPaint: Just write to me and we'll see what can be done!
The queue concept of pens and brushes will be expanded through libraries.
A library may be called up at any time to create new pictures.
A significantpoint is the hierarchial and object-oriented handling of data.
A database for managing version-dependent pictures will be included in XiPaint 4.1.
Additional information such as text, dates, etc may be attached to
such pictures.
The database will be accessible from other Amiga programs. Source code
will be freely distribted and access to the relational database
provided via a library. Last, but not least, you can also use the database
to maintain a list of addresses.
- Thomas Dorn
- A-1210 Wien
- Kerpengasse 69
- Austria
- Fax and mailbox: 0043-1-2714549
- Fido: 2:310/98.0
- Internet: tdorn@xipaint.co.at
Above text was taken from the backside and/or the leaflet following the CD-ROM.