Deluxe Paint

Deluxe Paint
Developer(s)Electronic Arts
Initial releaseNovember 1985; 38 years ago (1985-11)
Final release
5.2 / 1995; 29 years ago (1995)
Operating systemAmigaOS, GEM, MS-DOS, Apple GS/OS
PlatformAmiga, MS-DOS, Atari ST, Apple IIGS
TypeBitmap graphics editor
LicenseProprietary
Deluxe Paint V on the Amiga, showing detail from The Birth of Venus, included as a sample picture starting with the first release in 1985[1]

Deluxe Paint, often referred to as DPaint, is a bitmap graphics editor created by Dan Silva for Electronic Arts and published for the then-new Amiga 1000 in November 1985. A series of updated versions followed, some of which were ported to other platforms. An MS-DOS release with support for the 256 color VGA standard became popular for creating pixel graphics in video games in the 1990s.

Author Dan Silva previously worked on the Cut & Paste word processor (1984), also from Electronic Arts.

  1. ^ Noel, Lee: DeluxePaint For Amiga, Compute! issue #71 (April 1986), p. 52. Accessed on 15 February 2021.