Drawing/Painting Programs



Contents:

-----256-Color Paint Programs
-----VGACAD & Utilities
-----CAD Programs
-----Vector Graphics Drawing
-----Schematic Drawing
-----Other Drawing Programs

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-----256-Color Paint Programs

[256DRAW]
256 Draw (Johndrow, David A.; $8) is a 256-color VGA graphics editor. Images
created or edited with this program are compatible with Borland's BGI graphics
formats. Requires VGA and a Microsoft-compatible mouse.

[DTPAINT]
Desktop Paint 256 2.0c (Alchemy Mindworks Inc.; $35) is a full-color bitmapped
paint program that supports the extended resolution of super VGA cards.
Formats supported are PCX, GIF, IFF/LBM, and TIFF. It supports up to 256
colors. It can handle pictures several megabytes in size with adequate EMS
memory. A mouse and super-VGA card are required.

[FINGRVGA]
Finger VGA (Poisson Technology; $35-$36) is a color image processing, painting
and animation program for VGA that uses standard PCX file format. Pictures can
be printed on an HPLJ compatible printer. The program has a lot of
professional features, including support for 256 colors, but it also seems to
have some problems. Screen prompts were sometimes invisible. We could not get
the zoom feature to work properly, and the printout was a one-inch blob. We
offer this only for the experimentally inclined who want a first look at a
program that has potential.

[IMPROCES]
Improces (Wagner, John; $25) is an excellent SVGA image processor supporting
all modes from 320x200x256 through 1024x768x256. Features include an image
contrast enhancement, Histograms, sharpening by convolution, custom filters,
full control of the VGA palette, Clipboard, five fonts in five sizes, FAT BIT
editor, and many drawing tools. It supports Ahead, ATI, Chips & Tech, Everex,
Paradise, Trident, Tseng (both 3000 and 4000 chipsets), Video7, and any video
card with VESA capability. Other features include support for true color Targa
files, 2048x2048 virtual modes, best-fit palette, true color averaging, the
ability to set images in motion, clipboard painting, 5 work areas, locking
mouse support, and much more. Requires 512K, mouse, DOS 3.0 or higher and a
hard disk.

[NEOPNT1, NEOPNT2]
NeoPaint 2.2a (OSCS Software Development, Inc.; $52) is an image editing
program. It reads and writes PCX, GIF, and TIFF formats and converts between
differing formats and resolutions. Adjustable on-screen windows allow you to
load and work on multiple files. NeoPaint provides such effects as fade, blur,
pixelize, streak, image rotation, invert, flip, and image scaling. Other
features include multiple brush shapes and sizes, airbrush, multi-color
highlighter pen, fill options, polygons, 80 predefined patterns, clip art
stamps, multiple fonts and font effects, ability to create and import
palettes, and creation and rotation of 3D cubes and pyramids. Requires DOS
3.1+, 640K, hard disk, mouse, and EGA/VGA.

[BATLSHIP]
Battleship (Larry Carley, reg. fee: $10) is a battleship graphics and stamp
package for NeoPaint. You can select various weapon systems and add them to a
battleship image.

[CARMAKER]
Car Maker For NeoPaint (Larry Carely, reg. fee: $10) is a collection of
icon-like vehicle and engine component images for the stamp pad features in
the NeoPaint graphics program. Several car and truck body PCX images are
included.

[MORESTMP]
More Stamps For NeoPaint (Larry Carley, reg. fee: $10) is a collection of
stamps for the NeoPaint graphics program.

[WARZONE]
WarZone For NeoPaint (Larry Carely, reg. fee: $10) is a collection of
icon-like military images that can be used with the stamp pad feature in the
NeoPaint graphics program. It includes several PCX images of battlefields and
a fortress that can be used with the stamps.

[PAINTERS]
Painter's Apprentice (Naughton, Patrick and Nelson, Russell; $35) is a
graphics drawing program for EGA/VGA. It is similar to the styles of MacPaint,
PC Paintbrush, Dr. Halo, etc. This appears to be a superbly done program. The
screen is a window on a much larger drawing pad. MS-compatible mouse is
required. Over 20 printer definition files are included, including those for
Epson FX/MX, Gemini, IBM printers, Okidata's, Prowriter, Thinkjet and more.
The author decided at the last minute not to use the .IMG extension for this
program because the files would not be compatible with other .IMG files (eg:
Ventura's). But a small bug causes ".IMG" to still be the default extension if
you do not specify one. The work-around is to do a SAVE AS... and specify an
extension of ".IPA".

[SPR_MAST]
Sprite Master (Sexton, Fred Jr.; $30) is an easy-to-use, VGA (320x200 x 256
colors) drawing program. Features include mirror, rotate, darken/lighten, swap
groups of colors, automatic 3-D shading, text, undo, and more. On the down
side, the program uses a proprietary file format, so you cannot edit existing
files in GIF, PCX, or other popular formats. The program's opening screen
deserves some kind of award. Several sample graphics files are included,
including one that is a scanned color photo. Requires VGA, mouse, and 400k.

[VGAPAINT]
VGA Paint (Evans, David; $?) produces screen images in up to 248 colors at
once on a VGA system. Fourteen brush shapes and four automatic shapes such as
boxes and circles are provided. Image handling capabilities include: sizing,
flipping, moving, copying and saving images to disk. Although the resolution
of the screen is only moderate (320 X 200), the careful use of color mixing
can produce images with near-photographic realism.


-----VGACAD & Utilities

[VGACAD1, VGACAD2, VGACAD3]
VGACad (Gozum, Lawrence & Gozum, Marvin; $30) is a graphics program for
pictures of up to 256 colors. VGACAD's documentation suggests that its main
benefit is in coloring in black and white digitized graphics. Support is
included for Chips and Technologies' 452/453 and 451/455/456 versions; Chips
and Technologies' 1024x768x256 mode; Genoa GVGA 6100, 6200, 6300, 6400, 6600
Chipset support; Headlands/V7VGA4 support; BMP 256-color support; and
transparent cut and paste for full screen SVGA/MVGA image processing. 512K
free RAM, and VGA/MCGA and analog or MF monitor is required.

[VGA2EGA]
VGA2EGA (Gozum, Lawrence & Gozum, Marvin; $20) converts a 320x200x256-color
picture or GIF 320x200x256 picture to and EGA 640x350x16 or SuperEGA
640x480x16 format.

[VGAFIX]
VGAFIX (Gozum, Lawrence & Gozum, Marvin; $0) is designed to rectify problems
associated with palette reading and updating functions in Tseng Labs chip
based VGA cards (primarily, the Orchid Designer).

[VGAPRN]
VGAPRN (Gozum, Lawrence & Gozum, Marvin; $15) converts a 320x200x256-color VGA
picture or VGACAD picture to seven dithering shades for EPSON and IBM
compatible printers and prints graphic images with corrected aspect ratios.

[VGA2CGA]
VGA2CGA converts/views colored GIF pictures (256 colors and less) dithered,
4-color CGA or 16-Color EGA (emulated) pictures.

[GIFPUB]
GIFPUB (Gozum, Lawrence & Gozum, Marvin) will print any colored GIF picture or
ANY viewable 320x200x256 picture with VGACAP (included) or any BLD/PLT file
made with VGACAD, EGA2VGA, SQZGIF or MAC2GIF. It uses Floyd-Steinberg dithers
to print with greatest possible gray-scale continuum limited only by you
printer resolution and picture. It has variable brightness and contrast
stretching image processing functions to optimize your print results. Other
features include support for HP Laser and compatibles, GVGA (Genoa 6300/6300),
EEGA/SVGA, and BMP/Windows 3.0 256-color input file.

[MAC2GIF]
MAC2GIF (Gozum, Lawrence & Gozum, Marvin) is a viewer/colorizer/conversion
utility for creating files which follow CompuServe's GIF (Graphics Interchange
Format) which allows the transmittal and porting of your pictures to other
machines in any graphics mode, as well as through communication software.

[SQZGIF]
SQZGIF (Gozum, Lawrence & Gozum, Marvin) will convert 256 color GIF pictures
that are larger than 320x200x256 (e.g. 640x480x256) and interpolate or "color
average" that picture into a 320x200x256 and save it to a .BLD and .PLT format
for importing the results. Features include user-specified zooming or squeezed
GIF and PCX pictures, the choice of fast interpolation or color averaging
methods, and PCX format (to 2000x2000x256).

[VGACAP]
VGACAP (Gozum, Lawrence & Gozum, Marvin) captures MCGA/VGA 320x200x256 or SVGA
640x480x256 and 800x600x256 screens. VGAFIL is included to convert 256-color
320x200, 640x480, or 800x600 captures to GIF or PCX, as well as configure
VGACAP for fast, hard-coded SVGA screen grabs. VGAFIL also has a 256-color BMP
conversion functionality for Windows 3.0.

[EGA2VGA]
EGA2VGA 5.0 (Gozum, Lawrence & Gozum, Marvin;) will convert any GIF (16 colors
and below) and any viewable EGA 640x350x16 (or 2) or VGA 640x480x16 (or 2)
picture into a 320x200x256 color picture, with 256 new colors.

[GIFBIT]
GIFBit 1.0 (Gozum, Lawrence & Gozum, Marvin;) converts B&W PCX pics (up to
32KBx32KB) from an ordered dithered B&W pic (i.e., simulating gray shades) to
a real gray shaded GIF picture. Features include interactive brightness,
contrast, and skewing adjustments; and more.

[MVGAVU]
MVGAVU 5.1 (Gozum, Lawrence & Gozum, Marvin;) is a GIF and BLD/PLT viewer that
supports the non-standard 320x400x256 and 360x480x256 video modes for generic
VGA cards or PS/2 Model 50 (and up). It also support various SVGA video modes.
MVGAVU supports 'smart' Slideshows within the program or batch file
presentations. There are also screen adjustment features. Other features
include full GIF87a support; SuperVGA command line mode and GIF
selection/viewing; file and slideshow selection of 167 files; auto "Fade To
Black" transition for GIF Slideshows; slideshow transitions such as vertical
blinds and random lace; user-definable EEGA/SVGA slideshow mode; hardcoded,
preset modes for Tseng 4000 chip; hardcoded, user modes for Oak Tech chip;
contrast and brightness algorithms; and much more. Support is included for
Windows 34-bit BMP image files. EGA/MCGA/VGA required.


-----CAD Programs

[CURVDIG]
Curve Digitizer (West Coast Consultants; $149) is a powerful two-dimensional
CAD system.

[CURVDIGH]
Curve Digitizer (West Coast Consultants; $149) is a powerful two-dimensional
CAD system for Hercules compatible monographics cards.

[DANCAD1, DANCAD2, DANCAD3, DANCAD4, DANCAD5]
DanCad3D 2.5h (Hudgins, Daniel H.; $1) provides powerful wire frame 3D
graphics with rotation and animation. Advanced editing features include the
ability to measure angles and distances between any two points in a drawing,
automatic macro file generation, magnification, windowing, clipping, curve
fitting in two, three, or more dimensions,automatic backup, and lots more. The
animation section can display up to 999 drawing frames. This is a very
polished and professional package, but is easy to use. A comprehensive demo
shows you the features of the program, including 2D and 3D wire-frame
animation. The program supports CGA, EGA, and Hercules mono- graphics and
requires a hard disk or other type of drive with at least 720k capacity. It
also supports a mouse or FastTRAP 3D trackball. Printers supported include
LQ-1500, LX-80, MX-80, NEC-P6, IBM 5152 and Proprinter, Star Gemini 15x, and
PostScript laser printers and pen plotters.

[DANCAM]
DanCAM and DanPlot 2.52 (Hudgins, Daniel H.; $1) controls manufacturing
devices with stepper motors to automatically manufacture parts of any size or
type. The program will read drawing files created by DanCAD and control
devices through your computer's parallel port. Examples of the tasks it can
help perform include engraving signs, cutting foam with hot wires, routing of
wood or plastic, cutting of sheet metal and drilling printed circuit boards.

[DELTVIEW]
DeltaView 1.0 (Delta Technology; $39) is a 3D drawing program that lets you
see your drawing from the front, top and side - all at the same time in
different windows. As you draw, the line appears in all three windows at once.
In addition, you can rotate the drawing about any axis while drawing.
DeltaView is designed primarily for wireframe type drawings; its drawing tools
are few and simple, but effective for that purpose. (In other words, you will
not find tools like spray paint, flood fill, etc., which are not required for
wireframe work.)

[EZDRAFT]
Easy Draft 3.1 (Andrews, Scott; $0) is a drafting program. Features include
zooming, panning, parallel lines, circles, painting, object/symbol libraries
and adding text to your drawing. Objects can be created, moved, copied,
rotated and hidden without any effect on the main drawing. This freeware
version does not allow drawings to be saved to disk.

[K_CAD]
K_CAD 1.1 (Kris Carlgren; $10) is a 3D-CAD program. It is not a drawing
program. Objects are defined by entering coordinates for points and lines as
numbers. An animation program displays the objects on your choice of
backgrounds and lets you change the perspective, rate of rotation, and
location of the object.

[MEZDRAFT]
Easy Draft - Mouse 3.1 (Astek Software, reg. fee: $10) is a drafting program.
Features include zooming, panning distance/angle measuring, parallel lines,
circles, erase window, object and symbol library. Objects can be moved,
copied, rotated and hidden. Requires VGA and a mouse.

[PRINTCAD]
PrintCADD 3-D (Birdseye Software Ltd. ASP; $75) is a 3-D drafting, design and
modelling program for EGA/VGA. Features include up to 255 named layers,
multiple windows, a large number of tools and shapes, automatic surfaces,
extruded surfaces, revolved and joined surfaces. PrintCADD lets you keep
libraries of parts. You can work in perspective or parallel projections. Other
features include elimination of hidden lines, rotation, copy and delete,
zooms, pans, redraws, snap-to-grid, and more. Printers supported include HPLJ,
Epson, IBM.

[NORTHCAD]
NorthCad-3D (The Quest Company; $80) (formerly Quest 3D) is a
three-dimensional wire-frame drawing program that enables you to create, view,
and edit three-dimensional objects. Using a menu-driven interface, commands
can be quickly chosen to perform a large variety of design and viewing tasks.
You can move, scale, rotate, and tip your image anyway you choose, making the
program suited for a variety of creative design and illustration applications.
This program is extremely fascinating if you have any interest in graphics at
all. A half-dozen sample drawings come on the disk and even if you don't draw,
it's a lot of fun just playing with them, rotating them, scaling them up and
down, etc. Other features include Pan and Zoom commands that can be used
simultaneously while drawing, a full screen cross hair cursor option (like in
AutoCAD), a relative coordinate display option, an on-line keyboard reference,
and a snap to the nearest endpoint command. DOS 3+ and 512K are required, and
EGA is supported, along with VGA 16-color 640x480 resolution. Note: When
entering a drive for the drawings, if you put A:\ it will cause an error. Just
enter A: with no backslash.

[RADCAD]
Rad CAD (Ratcliff, Matthew J.W.; $0) is a 3D graphics design program that
allows rotating, scaling, animation, axis rotation and more.

[PCDRAFT]
PC-Draft II (Natural Software ASP; $50) is a high resolution pixel oriented
drawing and graphing utility, which is designed to facilitate a variety of
drawing and drafting needs. It has the ability to capture text or graphic
screens. Drawing functions include curves, arcs, ellipse, spray paint; and
objects can be expanded, contracted and rotated. The PIX slide show
presentation language is included as are the screen capture programs.

[PCDR_ART]
BG-ART-1 (Grubbs, Bob; $15) is a large set of religious and holiday pictures
for PC-Draft II.

[IBMCADSX]
IBM CAD/3SX 3.0.1 ($50) supplies all the tools needed to create CAD drawings.
It features highlighting, which eliminates magnifying and zooming on complex
or dense drawings, point & line markers, a step-by-step tutorial through the
construction of a sample drawing, a macro facility, engineering analysis, and
text importing. Requires 512k available RAM, VGA card, math coprocessor and a
hard disk.

[PCDCAD]
PC-Draft-CAD (Natural Software ASP; $65) is an object oriented CAD utility;
that is, it stores your drawing as a database of basic drawing elements such
as points and lines. Built-in functions allow you to draw circles, lines,
boxes, arcs, ellipses. You can record graphic keyboard macros saved in files
for later playback and for animation effects. You can add text to your drawing
with a variety of fonts. Objects can be rotated, stretched in any direction
and duplicated. You can print your drawings in portrait or landscape on a
variety of printers and plotters including those compatible with IBM and Epson
Dot matrix, HP Laserjet+, HP DeskJet printers and plotters that support the
HPGL plotter language. Support for VGA (640x480), EGA (640x350), Super VGA
(800x600x16) and Hercules (720x350) is included. You can export your drawings
in GEM and WPG file format. These can then be directly imported into such Desk
Top Publishing programs as Ventura Publisher and WordPerfect. You can exchange
vector-based drawings via text-based messages, such as on BBS's. All dimension
are expressed in decimal.

[PCKDRAW1, PCKDRAW2]
PC-Key-Draw (OED; $100) is a powerful graphics program, a bargain even at its
relatively high (for shareware) price. It can be used for general drawing or
CAD work. It also has "HyperDraw" capability which can be used as a graphical
database and is very similar to the HyperCard used in the MacIntosh.


-----Vector Graphics Drawing

[DRAFTC]
Draft Choice 2.0e (Trius, Inc. ASP; $75) is a unique object-oriented drawing
program. It uses floating point mathematics to record the size, shape and
position of objects you design. An object is a basic element like a line, a
circle, a box, or even more complex shapes like many sided Polygons
(triangles, pentagons, etc) and Bezier Curves. By choosing a mixture of these
elements you can create amazingly detailed drawings, impressive graphics, or
conceptual schematics. A built in formula calculator is included. Bit-mapped
and vector based fill patterns are available. Supported output devices include
those compatible with the HPGL pen plotters, HP LaserJet, Epson dot matrix
printers, the Epson LQ2500 or compatible 24 pin printers, and Okidata dot
matrix printers. The program supports VGA graphics, and provides EEMS and
Virtual Disk memory support.

[PICTHIS1, PICTHIS2, PICTHIS3]
Picture-This (Williams, P. Y. and Williams, G.; $80) is a vector-mapped (as
opposed to bit-mapped) Postscript drawing program intended for output on laser
printers. Being vector mapped means that pictures can be scaled up and down in
size without creating the jaggedness common to resized bit-mapped drawings.
Curved lines are created by specifying the two end points and two intermediate
points which control the amount and location of the curve. A utility for
capturing screens is included for importing CGA screens into the program. The
output files can be imported to and manipulated by major desktop publishing
programs or printed independently. A "quickshow" screen provides a fast
preview of the Postscript output, accurately showing layering, thicknesses
shading and more, which saves printing out innumerable test copies. Other
features include sophisticated typesetting features, dotting-and-dashing of
curves, automatic two-dimensional data plots, mouse support, a fun Kartoons
mode, and much more.


-----Schematic Drawing

[EDRAW]
EDraw (Emark Systems; $50) is a general purpose drawing program designed for
engineers, teachers and students. Besides drawing lines, boxes, circles and
symbols, Edraw includes logic/electronic symbols enabling a user to draw
electronic circuits. The program is ideal for drawing schematics, block
diagrams, flowcharts and features automatic panning. An extensive demo takes
you through the program the first time, though you have to clear any resident
utilities out of memory first and you have to reboot to exit the demo. NOTE:
Requires color graphics and an Epson/IBM-compatible graphics printer.

[EEDRAW]
EEDraw (Elber, Gershon; $0) is a full-featured, mouse-driven parametric
drawing program specifically designed for drawing electronic schematics. You
can create libraries of integrated circuits and parts; several are included.
Epson-compatible and PostScript printers are supported. Also included is
LOGIC.LIB by Dan Bodoh ($0), a library of general purpose logic gates and MOS
transistor symbols for use with EEDraw.

[EEDLIB]
EEDLib 1.0 (Mendel Cooper, reg. fee: $0) is a set of additional libraries for
use with Gershon Elber's EEDraw, an electronic schematic CAD program.

[LAYOUT]
LayOut (Waldman, Martin L. ASP; $20-$35) is a drawing program optimized for
floorplans, maps, circuit boards, quilts and other spaces of known dimensions.
It features many elementary drafting elements and a free-form customizable
database of objects usable for inventories, parts lists, etc.

[PC_SCHEM]
PC-Schematics (Mattern, John; $25) allows the user to create, save, and print
electrical schematics. The program contains 170 elementary graphic characters
which are used to create component patterns and full schematic diagrams. The
graphic characters have been chosen for drawing analog circuits, digital
circuits, and clock diagrams. Text can also be keyed in. Patterns can be
transferred between drawings. Many other features make the program easy and
efficient to use. Features include the ability to have up to eight
simultaneous drawings, one-pixel scale resolution, 2x4096 graphics character
file size, tracking markers for all scales, a second print driver with high
scale accuracy, BITMAP mode for drawing and creating characters, circle, arc,
rectangle, and line routines in bitmap, a rotate routine for window sized
patterns, fill routine for closed objects, an "oops" key to restore the prior
bitmap image, multiple strike printing for darker artwork, the ability to
produce both positive and negative artwork, the ability to transfers pads from
layout to artwork drawing, a zoom feature, 2X magnification of quarter screen
objects, automatic corners when drawing schematics, the ability to preview the
complete drawing, and more.

[SCHEMFIL]
Schematic Filer (Cutcher, Jeff; $25) allows you to draw schematics. It is
actually a general drawing program, but it comes with a set of libraries and
special functions pertaining to schematics. SF stores graphics as vectors,
rather than bit-mapped data, which is faster and requires less memory and disk
space. Requires 512k RAM, some form of graphics video, and a mouse. Features
include rubberbanding; circles, boxes, arc, lines and text; fill patterns and
line styles, two-color on CGA and 16 colors on EGA/VGA; a measuring function
and more.


-----Other Drawing Programs

[4_DPLUS]
4-Dplus (Daniels, Brad; $?) allows you to draw object at different angles and
animate the images.

[DTPNT16]
Desktop Paint 16 1.0d (Alchemy Mindworks Inc.; $40) is a paint program for
16-color images. Formats supported are MacPaint, GEM/IMG, PCX files, GIF,
TIFF, WPG, MSP, IFF/LBM, BMP and PIC. It has EMS and XMS support to handle
images of several megabytes in size, and a wide selection of image creation
and manipulation tools. It can utilize fonts from many other sources,
including Ventura Publisher, Macintosh FONT and NFNT resources and Windows FNT
files. A mouse, VGA, and 640K are required.

[DTPM]
Desktop Paint 3.0h (Alchemy Mindworks Inc.; $40) is an excellent drawing
program that supports many popular file formats, including PCX, WPG, IMG,
TIFF, MAC, Ventura GEM/IMG, GIF, MSP, IFF/LBM, BMP, PIC, TGA, and Halo CUT. It
works with dot matrix or HPLJ-compatible or PostScript printers. The program
does not support color because it is aimed at the B&W desktop publishing
crowd. It requires Hercules compatible monochrome graphics (most EGA/VGA cards
have Hercules emulation modes).

[FINGERPT]
Finger Paint (Poisson Technology; $32) is an excellent graphics program along
the lines of PC Paintbrush. The only printer supported in the unregistered
version is the HPLJ at 150 dpi.

[GRPH24]
Graphica 2.41 (Antonio Montes; $25) is an interactive graphics program for
drawing scientific graphs. Commands may be given on the command line or from a
script file. It outputs postscript, HPGL, PIC, and onscreen graphics. It
supports function plotting.

[HOMEPLN]
HomePlan 2.6 (Herndon, Chuch ASP; $24) draws and prints house plans. Features
include automatic dimensioning, adjustable scale, showing studs and joists,
rectangles and circles, predrawn furniture and appliances, undo, selectable
line styles, and an on-screen odometer for displaying horizontal and vertical
measurements. Support for 24 and 9-pin dot matrix and HP LaserJet printers is
provided. Requires VGA.

[MAGCBRSH]
Magic Brush (Nassar, Nassib ASP; $25) offers a "slide presentation" program
and a pop-up (85k) graphics screen dump program for saving a graphics screen
to a picture file. It allows freehand drawing with different pen colors and
thicknesses and has cut and paste ability. It supports medium resolution CGA.
The ability to center a figure to be pasted and diagonal flipping of cut has
been included It features a script language and vertical slides and wipes.

[MPAIN37]
MagniPaint 3.7 (Blueview Software, reg. fee: $20) is a graphic editor for
creating and manipulating small graphic images. It can handle graphics up to
100 x 100 pixels in size with 16 or 256 colors. It supports PCX, BMP, ICO and
RIP icons. Requires a mouse, VGA/SVGA.

[MEGAPNT]
MegaPaint II (TommySoftware; $30) is a powerful, multi-featured drawing
program. You can load scripts, fonts, and symbol libraries; import HP-GL line
art and PCX and other bit-mapped graphics, as well as exporting in those
formats; print a page or selected items; draw freehand or with dozens of
different objects/tools, including Bezier curves; zoom in and out; do pattern
fills; and much more. The program does not support color on-screen, but it
will print colors. This is an excellent program at a modest price. Requires
510K, a mouse, and a hard disk.

[MICROCA]
MicroCAD 2.0 (Allaway, David R.; $35) is a sophisticated, but easy to use
drawing program. It is completely icon driven (no menus). Each icon's function
is displayed at the top of the screen as the cursor passes over it. Microcad
has fast object drawing speeds, with real-time pan, zoom, and 3D object
rotations. It also includes perspective, orthographic, simultaneous views,
pattern fills, text, colors and more. Other features include automatic export
in DXF format, both 3-D and 2-D exports, up to 1500 objects per diagram,
auto-dimensioning, OS/2 support, landscape mode printer options, and much
more. VGA and mouse required.

[PC_ART]
PC-Art (Stone, P. Michael; $20-$25) is a simple color graphics drawing
program. Features include freehand drawing with varying line boldness and
shape, Paint function with any of 15 different patterns, spray paint function,
line, box and circle functions, two fonts with 10 character sizes each, and
cut-and-paste. PC-Art supports a mouse or joystick, but can be used with just
the keyboard. When setting up the program, it asks for a directory name for
storage. You must put a backslash at the end of the path name you give it.
Example: C:\MYSTUFF\.

[PCBLOX10]
PCBlox10 (Vic Slade Software; $30) is a 3-D, solid modeling system that
simulates toy building blocks. It has CAD features like rotate, flip, copy and
extrude.

[PEP]
Picture Editing Package 1.4 (Trionum Inc.; $45-) is a drawing and layout
program. It can be used to create diagrams, drawings, labels, logos, banners,
forms, certificates, presentations, slide shows, flow charts, floor plans, and
more. PEP supports LaserJet, DeskJet, PostScript, and dot matrix printers. It
can save in PCX and EPS formats. Features include arbitrary zoom, WYSIWYG
display, background printing, infinite undelete, scalable fonts, decorative
ornaments, rulers, grids, snapping, and more.

[RRAY]
RRTracer 1.0 (Probert, Clive; $15) allows you to draw impressive graphics in
640x480x16 color PCX format with light sourcing and ray tracing. VGA required.

[SCNART]
Scenic Artist 1.0 (Gulick, Charles; $10) lets you create beautiful landscapes.
You start with a barren expanse of sky and ground. You can add lakes, mountain
ranges, trees, moon reflections on water, clouds, and so on. There are lots of
options available, and even the most un-artistic person can create a
breath-taking panorama with ease. Created by the author of Flight Simulator.

[SKETCH]
Sketch (Boyarko, Brian; $0) is a drawing program that uses the text mode and
all ASCII characters. The author wrote the program for displaying process
systems, such as sewage treatment. Different colors can be used to indicate
changes in temperature during the process, etc.

[STAMPP]
Stamp Pad (Dataware, reg. fee: $10) is a paint program that lets you use clip
art like a rubber stamp on your picture. You can also make game characters,
backgrounds, or other graphic images for your own programs. Requires VGA.

[TPAINT15]
Text Paint 1.5 (Kevin Solway, reg. fee: $10) lets you create plain or
multi-colored text screens. It supports 43/50 line modes on EGA/VGA and ASCII
line drawing characters. You can also create slide shows. A TSR is included
for capturing color text screens for editing with Text Paint. Requires a
mouse.

[TURBOPNT]
TurboPaint (Leinecker, Richard C.; $20) is an easy to use paint program. It
supports a wide variety of monitor combinations including CGA 2-color, CGA
4-color, EGA 320x200 16-color, EGA 640x200 16-color, EGA 640x350 16-color,
MCGA, Hercules, and Tandy 16-color. It saves and loads PCX, IFF (LBM), and GIF
graphic files.

[VTOOLS]
Virtual Reality Tools 1.0 is a set of utilities to create sceneries and
animations of programs of the future. The current version contains sprite
editors, automaton assembler, mathematical tree designer, and other tools to
facilitate the job of programmers.