Grafx2 redux, or whatever

This is really cool – some guys found a bit of sourcecode for the old Grafx2 edit tool and they’ve been working it up into an SDL app with extra features, open source and, most importantly, proper documentation (for the first time ever).

For those who don’t know, Grafx2 was an MS DOS app designed to be a lot like the legendary Deluxe Paint series on the Amiga, with pixelartists specifically in mind. Anyway, PulkoMandy (one guy? Two? I’m not sure) has been describing his progress in this pouet thread and he reckons that when the config tool is finished, keyshortcuts will be customisable. Hooray!

Anyway, a full nine years after the unfinished Win32 beta first appeared, here is the 97% finished up-to-date release :D

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2 Responses to “Grafx2 redux, or whatever”

  1. PulkoMandy Says:
    March 11th, 2009 at 9:40 pm

    Just so you know, I started the porting alone but once it started to be somewhat usable, other people joined the team. Yves Rizoud is the other main developper, and, as he also is an user of grafx2, he helped me a lot to find hidden bugs in some obscure parts of the code. (i’m not skilled enough at drawing to use it properly, and i don’t know all of the features and tricks)
    There are also other guys working on the mac os X and amiga (and other) ports :)

  2. bren Says:
    March 11th, 2009 at 11:10 pm

    Good to know! Cheers for the hard work :)