What is GrafX2 ?!

It's a bitmap paint program that allows you to draw in more than 60 video resolutions (from 320x200, including most of the standard Amiga resolutions : 320x256, 320x512, 640x256, 640x512, etc... provided your videocard knows how to handle them). It was written to run under DOS, but the code you'll find here was modified to use SDL and modern operating systems.

This program is dedicated to everybody who knows what a single pixel is. Its layout is not very different from the famous Deluxe Paint or Brilliance, so it will be quite easy to handle it if you know at least one of these programs. If you aren't used to the art of drawing with up to 256 colors, it will be a little more difficult for you, but you should give it a try (or more, because most of the power of this program won't show up on the first try). Then, you might eventually like to draw the oldskool way with GrafX2.

The program is perfectly operational and offers all the useful tools you can expect from a bitmap paint program (if they aren't already available, they will be). We took most of the best ideas from other paint programs and added many other original and very useful tools, just to try to bring you the best 256-color bitmap paint program for PC. It's up to you to decide if we have succeeded, so please download it, try it and make your own opinion. By the way, it's FREEWARE and open source !

More details

If you want to learn more, don't forget to read the user's manual. And if you want to help us with all this messy code and hunt some bugs, please get started by reading the developper's documentation.

Want to see more before downloading ? Just go to the gallery for screenshots and pictures created with the program. If after all that you are still unsure why Grafx2 is better than other editors, have a look at the KeyFeatures page.

Supported platforms

Grafx2 is working on the following machines :

• Amiga OS 3.x 68k (.lha)
• Amiga OS 4 PowerPC (.lha)
• AROS (.zip)
• BeOS (.zip)
• DOS (Windows version, with the HX Extender)
• FreeBSD (.tgz)
• Haiku (.zip)
• Linux (.tgz)
• Mac OS X (both ppc and x86) (.zip)
• MorphOS (.zip)
• Windows 95, 98, 2000, NT, XP (.zip) (.exe)

The code is clean, standard C99 and should compile without dificulty on any platform provided you have gcc, gnu make, and the SDL libs. Check the wiki pages for more info. If you have compiled Grafx2 on another platform, please send us your patches so we can share your work !

There is a Debian package available in the main repository for unstable and testing, called "grafx2". It is also available in Ubuntu universe. A gentoo ebuild will be available soon.

Some statistics

Click on this icon if you are using Grafx2. It will count users and help us to be on the top of the userchart :)