=============================================================================  Deluxe Paint update ============================================================================= From Electronic Arts we received the following update information: D E L U X E P A I N T I V A G A UPDATE ------ Electronic Arts has announced the release of Deluxe Paint IV AGA for the forthcoming Commodore Amiga 1200 and 4000. Deluxe Paint IV AGA will retail for GBP 99.99 and will be available in English, French and German in mid-december 1992. Deluxe Paint IV AGA features all of the enhancements offered in Deluxe Paint 4.1, including full-screen morphs, scalable font support, improved performance in certain painting modes and new Be Square functions to provide improved aspect ratios. The new AGA version of Dpaint IV takes full advantage of the AGA chipset featured in the new machines, allowing full use of HAM 8 mode for enhanced graphic performance. Hold and modify, 8 bitplanes deep, is a new mode of HAM with 64 co- lour registers. Because of the new range of Ham 8, Deluxe Paint IV AGA gives the user access to over 262.000 colours, as opposed to 4096 colours available in HAM 6 in the original Deluxe Paint IV. HAM 6 provided 320 * 200 and 320 * 400 modes, whereas HAM 7 provides resolutions up to 1280*400 in Deluxe Paint AGA. Default mode is Ham 8 with a 64 colour palette. Other new features are as follows: * The user is able to apply the Be Square function to built-in brushes, the Circle tool and the Rotated Ellipse tool. * New screen modes can be chosen by adding or deleting monitors in the new screen format requester. * Full-screen morphs are now possible, the brush size is no longer restricted to a 250-pixel width. The only restriction on brush size and henze morphing, is memory. * The keyboard can now be used to interface with requesters. * The user can specify which preferences he wants from the shell. * 24-bit IFF file-read support is provided. * Scalable fonts can be used for text. * A 2.04, 2.1 and 3.0 compatible Player utility for 8-bit animations and images. * IFF parse library support, meaning that Deluxe Paint IV AGA uses AMIGA DOS's own IFF system library. * Free a Brush feature allows the user to free up memory during a project. For more information please contact: Electronic Arts 90 Heron Drive Langley, Berks Sl3 8XP United Kingdom Phone: +44 (0)753 549442 Fax : +44 (0)753 546672 =============================================================================  Deluxe Paint update =============================================================================