Paint9X brings back the look and feel of the classic Windows 98 paint program on the GNOME desktop.

Under the classic surface there are modern extras that kids and grown-ups will love:

• Fun Colors: rainbow, fire, ocean, neon and sunset paints that change colour as you draw, plus candy stripes, polka dots, stars, hearts, confetti and gold glitter patterns
• Stickers: a Sticker Book with classic pixel-art stickers, hundreds of colour emoji, and your own stickers cut out of your pictures
• Symmetry: mirror, four-way, radial and kaleidoscope drawing
• Replay: watch how your picture was drawn and share it as an animated GIF
• Magic Wand selection, recolouring and transparent cut-outs
• Opacity for every tool, adjustable brush, pencil and eraser sizes, fill tolerance and gradient fills
• History window to jump back to any step, and autosave with crash recovery

And everything you remember from the original:

• Free-form and rectangular selections: move, copy, smear, stretch, transparent mode
• Pencil, brush, airbrush, eraser and colour eraser, fill, pick colour, magnifier and text
• Line, curve, rectangle, polygon, ellipse and rounded rectangle with outline and fill styles
• Flip/rotate, stretch/skew, invert colours, attributes, zoom with grid and thumbnail, view bitmap
• Edit colours (with hex input), custom palettes, load and save .pal files
• Opens and saves PNG, BMP, JPEG and TIFF; copy and paste with other apps; print and print preview
• Set your picture as the desktop wallpaper, tiled or centred

Paint9X was previously known as Paint98. It is free software under the MIT license. It is not affiliated with Microsoft.