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silber · Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2005 8:15 am

Is there someone left on this planet who can convert Delux Paint III animations into a PC readable format ?
Anyone knows something about this topic ?

These are my original amiga 500 delux paint 3 files:
http://marek.monoid.net/Amiga500.zip

These are my very first animations I did, great nostalgic value!

I grant a kiss and a egg of a dodo for the one who is able to help! please? anyone?

-Marek
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stacy · Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2005 3:28 pm

Rats...

I was hoping they'd be some flavor of IFF,
but no joy.

I loved my Amiga's. I hope someone comes through for you.

If you do get them converted, post them.
I'd really like to see some Amiga generated
material again.

balistic · Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2005 4:33 pm

A program called DeBabelizer may be of help to you, but it's pretty expensive. If you know anyone at a game studio, they might have access to it. Failing that, try asking at some demoscene forums . . . a lot of those guys probably have experience with old dPaint files.
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silber · Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2005 8:47 am

@stacy: I will do that. Thanks for your compassion.
@balistic: just tried a free trial version of DeBabelizer, couldn't read the files either, though now I know that I did them eleven years ago, that's all the information I could get out of it. I will try your demoscene tip. thanks.

anyone else?
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Pringle · Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2005 5:06 pm

How about running dpaint on an Amiga emulator for the windows?
I believe dpaint had an option for saving an animation as single frames in IFF... could be wrong though.

Alan · Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2005 11:01 pm

Hey-

As an ol' Amigan myself I thought I'd help out (or try to Smile

)

Just by renaming the files with the .iff extension I could view the first frame with Irfran view, so maybe they are iff anim5? If so you could try :

http://www.cosmigo.com/promotion

basically, it is dpaint on the pc Wink

balistic · Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2005 6:35 am

ah, yeah, I forgot about ProMotion. It's awesome.
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stacy · Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2005 12:53 pm

That was most excellent Alan,
they ARE some flavor of IFF.

stacy · Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2005 3:49 pm

Deluxe Paint ...er... Pro Motion WORKS!

http://www.geocities.com/reddogbullettoo/shadowf.zip

silber · Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2005 2:03 am

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
uiuiuiuiuAGHAHAHAHA

COOL

what a suprise!
Thanks!!!!
You guys are awesome!

damn haven't seen this animation in eleven years, I was twelve as I made them. They look much worser than I thought, but I still love them!
This Magic warrior were my proud back in those days.Boy, wonder if every 12 year old boy is addicted to violence and fighting sequences, made lots of this stuff back in these days.

Alan thanks for the tip with Pro Motion, you get the kiss,
Stacy thanks for trying it out, you get the dodo egg,
and balistic, thanks for being balistic
*sniff* you guys get big place in my heart forever, ..ove you
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silber · Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2005 2:38 am

ok I promised I will post them, as you see, really dump stuff, but I love it.

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stacy · Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2005 8:47 pm

Silber,
The 'egg' gift is SUPERB !!!

May I describe to the others, what it is?

It could give the kids in here a real boost to
see these funny little Deluxe Paint pieces and
then be able to compare them to the sophisticated
hilarious work you do now.

silber · Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2005 2:13 am

@stacy: thanks! I don't know what kids you mean. No problem showing it to friends and so. I just don't want it to be posted on the internet, at least not now, maybe to a later occasion (good reason for this).
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faB · Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2005 10:43 am

wahahaha that's great Smile

Now the problem is how did you transfer those files ?

I used to have a program with the parrallel port havent tried for a while, and I hope it will still work on XP Sad

Any recent program to transfer files that work on XP ? On Amiga basically I needed a 700kb or something PC disk that could be read, not the high density ones, with the amiga program to install. Then the PC exe, then the parrallel cable..

in the same vien, I used a Amiga Emulator like someone mentioned above, bout 3 years ago, to get screencaps of a lil game I was making on Amiga, that I made the graphics for as well, and I joined the caps in a gif anim utility and put the gif into a 'portfolio' cd for a job

(it was using 'dual playfield' mode so it was 7 colors on front + transparent, and 8 colors on background)

aah old times.. I dont even know if my A1200 still works, boy, it had a 20 MB harddrive !! Very Happy

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silber · Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2005 2:57 am

@fab sweet hedgehog you got there!
about the transfere problem: I beg a student collegue to transfere the data from amiga disk to PC. He has an amiga 1200, which seems to be able to read both disk types, not sure about it though. I aksed if someone is able and he said yes he can. I heard about another method, something about modifying the PC floppy drive.

Did you finished the game actually? You have more stuff?
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