You can get 20 versions of all singing all dancing pro quality digital video/photography/3dconstruction programs, but Ive never come accross any program that could do what Deluxe Paint does. That is, I set the number of frames, press a key to advance, press a key to retreat, then press another to play. I actually use deluxe paint to do my sprite anims, but it runs in a really crappy mode that only lets you see it in 320x260 mode, which is very onnoying, and the colours are a bit wierd.
If anyone knows about a good 2d anim package let me know!
GIve me more power!