No, the tool palettes did not float in the sense that you could drag them around or resize them. They had a floating appearance, but the layout of the original MacPaint was completely fixed.
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Apple Donates MacPaint Source Code to Computer History Museum
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No, the tool palettes did not float in the sense that you could drag them around or resize them. They had a floating appearance, but the layout of the original MacPaint was completely fixed.
Yep. It would be interesting to see who is voting all the positive stories negative. It's either trolls, someone working for an Apple competitor, or people shorting Apple stock.
Note - I can see where some people might find something negative in most of the stories but, how can you find something negative in this story.
there is a trend of some nitpickers to rate everything negative that is not a rumor about macs because the site is called macrumors. they think only content fitting exactly the site name should be allowed.
anyway, i miss the old set of apps: macwrite pro, mac draw pro, macpaint, not sure what I used for spreadsheet. eventually claris works although the standalone macwrite pro and mac draw pro were better than what was in claris works. and then of course there was hypercard.......
Actually it's quite striking they did. Word is (filtered/mutated by repetition) that Jobs despises the notion of maintaining a computer museum, at least at Apple, because that which is history is so because it is no longer "insanely great" (else it would still be in use). I suppose MacPaint still is for its simplicity, elegance, and sheer breakthrough of the time; Jobs is otherwise avoiding enshrining the laughingstock of great mistakes like the Cube, Apple ]|[, and other products which are history for good reason.
IIRC there is at least one naysayer who acknowledges rabidly marking everything negative in retaliation for some perceived wrong Apple has allegedly done him (as though corporate strategy is to get him personally), and will continue to until the wrong is righted to his satisfaction (grow up ya twit, you know who you are).
http://paintbrush.sourceforge.net/
It's about as close to MacPaint you can get for free on OS X. I put it on every Mac I use.
It's things like this that make me love apple so much. They truly are innovators, and still were even back in the day. They're always pushing the boundaries of what people think is possible. And paint programs are just fun to play with lol
lolPascal... that was a LONG time ago.
I got you beat. Fortran on punch cards in 1968. Now that's a long time ago.
Awesome.
How can anyone vote this as Negative?
There are a lot of miserable, bitter people in this world who adhere to the half-empty theory of life. Nothing is worth anything, nothing means anything. Add to that the obvious fact that MacRumors has been totally pwned by trolls. Trolls now own this site.
My friend's dad worked at a computer store when we were in junior high back in '84, and he'd let us come in after the store closed to play with the machines. (Back then, Apple retailers didn't encourage annoying tweeners to hog machines as the Apple Stores do now.) We just messed with MacPaint for hours. It wasn't long until the Apple // version (ApplePaint?) was out, which I got lots of use out of at home.
Piggie: A few things have happened in the last twenty years. First, in the 1990's, broadband providers like Covad and Rhythms started popping up and even the major RBOC's (US West, SBC, etc.) were vastly overestimating demand for bandwidth. The volume of content necessary to drive that level of demand wasn't there yet.
Then the dotcom bust hit the economy hard, but even as the dust settled, many companies refocused on doing more with less. In that same span of time, computing power has become rather immense and more than we need for our daily, basic tasks.
While it would be interesting to have devices do everything we want, how we want (and who would get to define that, anyway? different people would interpret that differently anyway... and trying to please everybody usually ends up pleasing no one), that would require a degree of versatility that makes the device look better, but doesn't necessarily lend any specific advantages to any economical subset of tasks. It's what I would call "unfocused computing". Focused computing appliances are a good direction to go in because they allow the user to experience a device that does a few things right, instead of many things poorly.
fair enough. However, rating this <negative> implies you got angry by it or, disapprove of it. Why would this make someone angry/annoyed??
I guess that was my point.
I still have the original MacPaint on floppy. Amazingly, I can still get it to run under Classic mode on Tiger on my PowerMac G4.
I got you beat. Fortran on punch cards in 1968. Now that's a long time ago.
Fortran on paper tape in 1968 for me. Punch cards? You had it easy.
I think it came out a year later, when the Amiga 1000 was released. I certainly had Deluxe Paint II for my first Amiga that I got in, I think, '88 (might have been '89).
Looks like my memory is reasonably accurate -- the copyright notice on this screen shot says 1985
It may not be in wide use, but "assembler" is the program which converts assembly language to machine code. It's not a language itself. "Assembly" is presumably just a shortened form of "assembly language", which means the article is correct.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1176138/assembly-vs-assembler
What does this have to do with the iPhone and the current antennae issue?
Absolutely nothing...
It's nice to see some real Apple news on the front page, not "hold the iPhone like this" or "waiting for an iPad" that...
Sometimes I don't weather to love MR or hate it. What's up with anyone voting this article negative? No one in their right mind should vote this article negative. So sick of some of these morons who are out to destroy the Apple experience.
You'd be surprised who consider themselves "Apple People" now - I was put down for being a PC "geek" - they had no clue that I've been using Apple computers twice as long as they've been alive...
Ah, the memories. MacPaint, MacDraw (and Claris CAD too), on a MacPlus, doing the floppy shuffle.
Funny how the simplest things were so much fun back then because they were new to us (well, me anyhow!). You could release a full featured Photoshop on iPhone now, charge 1.99 for it and most people would just moan it's overpriced.
p.s. does this news mean Apple is again contributing to the open source community?
Funny how the simplest things were so much fun back then because they were new to us (well, me anyhow!). You could release a full featured Photoshop on iPhone now, charge 1.99 for it and most people would just moan it's overpriced.
p.s. does this news mean Apple is again contributing to the open source community?
Does this mean we will see it appearing in the next Windows release!
If you have a copy of Windows 3.x laying around (say, on a virtual machine), check out Paintbrush again. You may notice something...extremely familiar about its UI. (At least they went out of their way to switch out the default icons for fuglier ones, right?)