[9] NEOchrome supports hardware-supported color cycling to give the impression of animation.

A color cycling waterfall, created with NEOchrome, was one of the iconic images of the early Atari ST.[10][11] Following in the footsteps of MacPaint and the Apple II version Mouse Paint, both released in 1984, NEOchrome uses the then-novel representation of painting tools by icons (in addition to other GUI elements).

[6] NEOchrome enjoyed a relatively high level of popularity within the ST community, even in the face of more advanced packages such as DEGAS and Deluxe Paint.

[citation needed] Although there were no further official versions,[6] an unofficial revision called NEOchrome Master was released by the Atari demo scene group Delta Force's Till Bubeck[14][15][16] (programmer of The Return of Medusa) in the early 1990s.

The resulting source code was uncommented and hard to read, but could be assembled back into the same binary program as before.