He could have used Deluxe Paint via an Amiga-Emulator instead of DosBox. DP doesn't offer a lot of comfort but it's still useable and leads to its very own results.
@8bit A fixed palette often results into a distinctive look. A win if the palette is good and you have enough time to tweak things. A defined limited palette, like 5 bitplanes with 32/4096 colors offers more freedom and can results into great pixel art. A 'i don't count colors anymore' approach depends on what you're doing exactly. It's the fastest workflow but can result into sloppy work with images which just don't look right anymore.
Some scenes in TWP look really good, others don't, they have too many colors, some weird shading here and there, mixed styles, they look rushed and lack a more sensible color selection.
Without technical restrictions these old games wouldn't have been the same. I doubt, for quite some cases, it would have been for the better.
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