) (06/08/91)
Recently I got a two-for-one offer in the mail for some WP/page layout program called TASTE and for UltraPaint, both for about $90. This is from some outfit called Deneba Software (I think). Anyway, I don't really care about another word processor with some incompatible file format, but I could use a decent color painting program. So, anybody have any experience with UltraPaint? Comments, reviews, abuse and praise are all welcome. Please post responses since this may be of interest to others. I suppose that if you have any experience with TASTE this may be useful also. Thanks in advance. -- Arthur Bebak azb80@quts.ccc.amdahl.com "Punish your machine" - Front 242
john@newave.UUCP (John A. Weeks III) (06/11/91)
In article <47Rk02dr08I001@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> azb80@bebak.cd.amdahl.com (Chaos reigns!) writes: > So, anybody have any experience with UltraPaint? I use UltraPaint. It is quite speedy on the IIsi, but the program is probably too large/sluggish to run on a Plus or SE. It does color painting, which I have only tried a few times. It seems to do that just fine. I mostly use UltraPaint as a drawing tool. It is very similar to MacDraw II, but much cheaper. All in all, I am a happy camper with UltraPaint. -john- -- ============================================================================= John A. Weeks III (612) 942-6969 john@newave.mn.org NeWave Communications, Ltd. ...uunet!tcnet!newave!john
sandy@snoopy.cs.umass.edu (& Wise) (06/12/91)
I bought UltraPaint based on experience with Canvas. UP has a
respectable subset of the features of Canvas 2, and a cleaner
interface (IMHO). I use it mostly for simple illustration work a User
Group newsletter that I edit, and for playing around. I am very
pleased with the program.
I am not very pleased with the manual. It is incomplete, occasionally
incorrect, filled with typographical errors (from a company that sells
a spelling checker!), and to top it off, it came as a several bunches
of shrink wrapped pages and instructions on how to assemble them into
a manual! Nice slip cover 'though...
I ran UP on an SE under 6.0.7 MultiFinder in a 1.5Meg partiton and the
performance was quite acceptable. I just upgraded to System 7,
performance seems unchanged except that I needed to reduce the size of
the partition due to the vast increase in System size.
/s
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