I think I still have a deluxe paint VHS tape and it’s original case somewhere that taught you about it. I remember playing around with it so much as a kid, it was always fun just to Doodle and play with all the fun tools. Color cycling was cool, and for some reason I really enjoyed the fractal tools. Ms paint doesn’t have anything on this

First, I don’t think EA — then, Electronic Arts — was ever cool. They were just not shit. Second, those album-style sleeves were the common floppy disk delivery system for the Amiga. Chessmaster and Lemmings came packaged the same way. Chessmaster in particular was awesome because when you opened it, it was this Gandalf looking MF who took up both sides of the inside, it was a vertical artwork/photo, and the disk was in like a pocket on his robe and he was inviting you to take it. Also, when that chess software was loaded, a synthesised voice said “I am the Chessmaster,” and it was so cool. It had PVP, but my father (a chess enthusiast) refused to use it. He only used the software to play against the computer. Playing against another person, he said the only way to do that was with a real chess board, face to face. Very principled player, and man in general. Oh, and third, EA didn’t make DPaint, they merely published it. I know OP isn’t saying they did, I’m just clarifying. Dan Silva was the developer.

Anyway, the Amiga (1000) was my father’s, and looking at the descriptions in the link, I’m sure we had the first version. I do remember copies of it, but I also remember the actual printed-label disk. I don’t remember the sleeve, but I remember we had it. I just don’t recall the cover. My father was not above copying disks for friends (or using copies), but he bought a lot of his stuff, too. He bought DPaint because my mother was an artist and she refused to touch a computer. He thought it would get her into computers. She dabbled in DPaint but not much more. She would not trade real pencils and brushes for a computer mouse, and after briefly trying DPaint, she would not touch another computer or electronic device for well over 20 years (basically until she got a flip phone… and then later one shitty Android tablet, “free with contract extension” at Verizon, whatever trash they offered for “free”). Oh, and I got her to try a PlayStation game once (Tomb Raider, I think) but she sucked at it (no hand-eye coordination) and gave up after a couple minutes. Much later, she tried VR, my brother had it, she gave up after a few seconds, said it made her sick (nauseated; motion sickness).

Anyway, my brother and I used DPaint extensively, though just for fun. I still have it, but only as an .adf file I can open in an Amiga emulator.

DPaint did a lot of stuff that art programs today don’t do. The color cycling. The brushes — the idea that you could have this “background” and put stickers (brushes) on it, it’s such a cool idea and I haven’t really seen it done since. When I was a kid, sticker books like that were popular. I was at a Japanese dollar store (I forget the name, they’re common in big cities) and they had a few, so I bought them for my niece and nephews. They don’t know Japanese but they know how to peel and place stickers. Or decals. The plastic-y ones you can move around. DPaint was that but software. The one I really remember was a Christmas tree (undecorated) by a fireplace and a window looking out to a snowy yard. And you could place these stickers (called brushes). Lights in different colors, ornaments, the stockings, presents… it was really cool, but felt like a proof of concept. Of course you could make your own brushes, but we never got into that. I was 7 or 8, my brother was younger.

My mother still remembers DPaint fondly though, oddly enough.