For all you Mac veterans, here’s a great little simulator that will being back fond memories from the early days of the Macintosh. For those of you born after 1990, and believe nothing happened before you were born, read on, you might learn something.
For you young-’uns, MacPaint was a bit-mapped drawing program that shipped with the original Macintosh. A lovely bit of code.
From the MacPaint Wikipedia Page:
MacPaint is a discontinued bitmap-based graphics painting software program developed by Apple Computer and released with the original Macintosh personal computer on January 24, 1984. It was sold separately for US$195 with its word processor counterpart,MacWrite. MacPaint was notable because it could generate graphics that could be used by other applications. Using the mouse, and the clipboard and QuickDraw picture language, pictures could be cut from MacPaint and pasted into MacWrite documents. Pictures could also be cut from MacPaint and pasted into the resource fork of any application via ResEdit, allowing application internationalization.
The original MacPaint was developed by Bill Atkinson, a member of Apple’s original Macintosh development team. Early development versions of MacPaint were called MacSketch, still retaining part of the name of its roots, LisaSketch. It was later developed by Claris, the software subsidiary of Apple which was formed in 1987. The last version of MacPaint was version 2.0, released in 1988. It was discontinued by Claris in 1998 because of diminishing sales.
An excellent cloud based version of MacPaint, is available here. A nice peek into the tools available to users back in the early days of the Macintosh.
