Hi Nigel:
It is amazing how much progress (depending on one's view of progress... LOL!) but I really miss my old Commodore Amiga. For it's time, there was nothing to compare. It came with a program called, "Deluxe Paint" and I have never found anything to replace it... particularly for it's ease of use and versatility. That program was written by a company that decided to change directions into computer games and they abandoned the best art program ever written.
Thanks for the trip down "memory lane."
All my best,
Dave Rice
I ended up using bars and pipes on my amiga 2000 as a midi sequencer, it was a really great product back then..