(MiniDiscs? Yes, I remember those. I've even got a MD recorder gathering dust somewhere. I haven't used it at all since getting my Archos Jukebox Recorder.)
Meanwhile, the same section of The Age has a press release article about Personal Paint coming out for AmigaOS 4.0, just in time for the Amiga to reconquer the computer world. Personal Paint is supposed to be "a mainstay of the application base for the Amiga platform", though it's the first I've heard of it; wasn't Deluxe Paint the most popular Amiga application throughout that platform's working life?
deluxe paint iv I believe it was... although dpIII was pretty popular also.
i lurve my md... fantastic for on the spot recording.
Actually, hasn't Sony Electronics has kind of grumbled with its subsiduary Sony Music? Since one would like to sell more gear, and the other would like to sell more music, it probably comes down to which is more profitable...
Personal Paint was uber popular in Europe (it came out about the time of DPaint IV) and has been the only commercial paint program to last through all the failed attempts to rebirth the Amiga. I haven't used it in years, but I remember I used to use it to resize PC .jpg's to be used as DPaint .iff's.
I liked Newtek's Digi Paint 3 more than EA's Deluxe Paint 4. Deluxe Paint 4 was much stronger with animation and I think it was the more popular one here in the US.
deluxe paint iv was definitely the most popular art/graphics package for the amiga in australia... personal paint i can only ever remember hearing of occasionally, whereas dpaint was quite common.
The number one thing I hate about my minidisc recorder, and is fast making it almost useless, is that it takes 70 minutes for me to "transfer" 70 minutes of audio off it. I know it's digital, I know it can't be hard to allow fast transfer. It's the only think I'd want from a new minidisc format. I don't even need any more room, 74/80 minutes is heaps.