Just wanted to pop in and share a few fun facts about Deluxe Paint, Amiga and Monkey Island. Electronic Arts originally made Deluxe Paint for the Amiga, along

Just wanted to pop in and share a few fun facts about Deluxe Paint, Amiga and Monkey Island. Electronic Arts originally made Deluxe Paint for the Amiga, along with the IFF (Interchange File Format) standard and ILBM (Interleaved Bitmap), an image format conforming to IFF. They released the first version in 1985, for the Amiga 1000. The last version was version 5, in 1995, though I'm not sure how much EA was actually involved with that one. The first Amiga version they released that could handle 256 colors came out in 1993, designed for the then new AGA graphics chipset. It became such a favorite that Psygnosis (after being bought by Sony) reportedly used Deluxe Paint on Amigas to create some of the graphics for Wipeout. I also know of other companies that used Amigas well into the early noughties for creating pixel graphics for mobile phones. Avril Harrison is an artist whose "A.H." signature can been seen on many of the example pictures that were distributed along with Deluxe Paint, including her rendition of Botticelli's Venus and the iconic Tutankhamun gold mask[1]. LucasArts, however, seemed to be using PC:s exclusively. AFAIK, Monkey Island was ported to the Amiga by another company hired specifically for that task. At the time when Monkey Island I and II were made the Amiga chipset didn't have support for 256 colors. The maximum was 32 colors, plus 32 darker shades of those colors, in a mode called EHB (Extra Half-brite). Monkey Island, just like most other Amiga games, was made to run in normal 32 color mode. Avril Harrison later started working for LucasArts and it's claimed the original art depicting governor Elaine Marley[2] is based on her likeness. [1] https://i.redd.it/hk6hkm84xv011.png https://i.redd.it/hk6hkm84xv011.png [2] https://www.sporting04.it/general/explorers/ddb/MonkeyIsland04.jpg https://www.sporting04.it/general/explorers/ddb/MonkeyIsland...