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From: Friesen@HIS-PHOENIX-MULTICS.ARPA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: I was an owner of Quantum paint...
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Date: 6 Jul 88 04:19:00 GMT
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Well, this last weekend I went to my local Atari store (a twenty mile
drive through downtown and terrible trffic) planning on buying Spectrum
512.  I arrived there and started talking with the head of the newly
founded ST users group here.  He convinced me that I wanted Quantum
paint because it dosen't flicker, and it offers over 4,000 colors (of
coarse he didn't actually own the program, he had just seen pictures
made with it).  Well I decided to purchase it (I should have known I was
in trouble when I realized it was $20 less than Spectrum 512).  I took
it home and quickly found that its painting tools were very limited,
that it had a terrible way of handling the 8 palates in its medium mode,
that colors flickered in its 4000+ color mode, and that after you put a
little time into a drawing, it bombed the system, and it took two resets
to get to the desktop.  The next day I returned it and purchased
Spectrum, and am very happy, I love this gradient fill feature.

Summary...

I think that the only thing Quantum Paint is good for is for (mabey, I
didn't use it for this) is video digitizing or to be able to say that
"My ST has as many colors as that dumb ol' Amiga.":-)



Aric Friesen

Addresses:  Genie:  A.FRIESEN ARPA:  Friesen%PCO@BCO-MULTICS.ARPA

"Lenny, ya durned fool, ya bought an Amiga!" "Gee George, I squashed the
mouse!"
                                       ---"Of Mice and Men"