Satan Paint FAQ
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Q. Why in the hell is it called Satan Paint?  :)

  Initially Satan Paint was quite difficult to use (even more than it is
now!) and was dubbed Satan Paint by Guy Moar for this reason.  It
kinda stuck and I liked it for it unconventionality and reference to
power and corruption.


Q. What has Satan Paint been ported to?

  MS-DOS  386+
  Linux Console
  Linux X11
  AIX
  Sun
  SGI


Q. Where can I get Satan Paint for port XXX?

  If I have compiled it and bother to store it :
  ftp.island.net


Q. Is spaint public domain?
	No. Jonathan Clark owns all copyrights.  Non-commercial
	use is fine, but if you are using it commercial product,
	send me some mail and we'll work something out.


Q. I wish I had feature X, would you add it?

  Maybe - if it's not to hard for me and I can see some use for it
personally.  Can't hurt to ask...


Q. What docs are available?

  This FAQ, and a file called satan_paint.doc
  If enough people ask me, I'll write more docs, but my time is limited.

Q. Can I get source code?

  nope.

Q. How can I read picture format XXX?

   X windows people can use X-view to display the picture (it supports
a lot more formats than me).  Then do a xwd -out test.wd.  This dumps
the window to a file called test.wd.  Spaint can read the X-window
dump format.  DOS people can do a similar trick with Windows.

Q. Spaint crashes when I do XXX, what should I do?

  Don't do it again :)   Send me a bug report saying exactly what you
did,  if you can't repeat it, I don't want to hear about.


Q. I've written a nifty game with the help of spaint, now what?

  If it's really cool, let us (at crack.com) look at it.  We publish
games and promise you a bigger cut than Apogee and Epic.  All ideas
will be kept in strict confidence.  Mail jc@crack.com or
ddt@idsoftware.com if you have something concrete that you think will
sell.