ah, so apples version of Linux.. then again windows 2000 has a similar kernel to Linux and being so stable all window releases from 2000 are still using that.

Paintbrush, should be what your looking for then or seashore but as to how close they are i'm not entirely sure.

...What does that have to do with being unable to make it?

probably to do how paint only fills a single pixel and gimp doesn't.

A completely irrelevant complaint since the GIMP brush can be reduced to 1px. The GIMP suite is fine for making sprites, and anyone who says otherwise is talking absolute nonsense.

so can photoshop but you still get fog from the brush even when its set on hard, but as for gimp i honestly haven't used it in years so my information might be screw.

Both photoshop and GIMP can turn off soft edges/ automatic antialiasing.
Thus allowing the pencil to draw single pixels without the 'blur'

Gimp has two direct draw brushes, the pencil and the paintbrush. Both use the same "brush strokes" but the paintbrush also anti-aliases while the pencil does not. With the pencil, pixels in the brush that are >50% alpha are drawn, pixels that <50% alpha aren't drawn.

he's right! i didn't know that.

now how about some better sprites?

I'm a ♥♥♥♥♥ that's how, but then so is GIMP

edit: palettes are a pain tho

i guess you could always just use the drop crate as reference as it only has 5 different colours.

Provided you use the colour palette, I could palette the image itself when you're finished.
However, duh102 did provide a gimp paletteing tutorial.

Wow, I've been looking for static coalition turret, too! That would be cool addition for fortresses. High caliber, if someone makes a static turret