Apple Donates MacPaint Source Code to Computer History Museum

[Rocketman]

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 wanted to read a MacDraw II file yesterday so I used Classic (9.2.2) under Tiger (10.4.11) on a PBG4 867. I had to reset the screen resolution and depth. I selected 800x600. It ran like the old days. Saving was slow due to the Classic emulation and the screen seemed a bit fuzzy, but it worked fine.

I wonder if I can boot CP/M and Wordstar under Parallels?

Rocketman

 

[rhoydotp]

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

you got that right! for people who actually coded in this language, "assembly" is enough

 

[whooleytoo]

you got that right! for people who actually coded in this language, "assembly" is enough

Exactly. Anyone who coded in assembly would look at the phrase "Assembly Language" and think -

"Look at all those wasted bytes! If we could just truncate the redundant 'Language', then we'd have more free memory to..."

 

[muncyweb]

Great Program!

Great little program. I still have my Apple Lisa 2 and I used to run Mac Paint on it all the time. I remember, a relative of mine owned a Packard Bell that was MUCH newer than the Apple Lisa 2, but I still preferred to use the Lisa because the interface just seemed so natural and fluid, even though it was older. It was Apple's attention to detail with these original machines and programs that sold me on the Mac. I've been promoting them ever since.

 

[Corbin052198]

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It would be cool if someone, with the code, ported it to OS X.

But I don't think Pascal is supported by OS X and they would also have to change the 68000 code to a universal binary

What the heck, forget it '

 

[JediZenMaster]

This is very cool. I love apple's rich history.

 

[marksman]

Why is there a negative already? How is this story negative? Some people might not really care that apple released the source code, but how is this negative? Trolls? I think so.

Votes on Stories need to be made public. I want to be able to ignore anyone who would give a negative rating to a story like this because clearly they have nothing to offer.

 

[Plutonius]

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.......

Yes but this story is even Mac related.

 

[Plutonius]

Votes on Stories need to be made public. I want to be able to ignore anyone who would give a negative rating to a story like this because clearly they have nothing to offer.

+1....

I would not mind if people saw if I voted a story positive or negative. If anything, it would make the voting more realistic.

 

[aristotle]

Man that brings back memories. I remember writing programs in Think Pascal on the macs in high school.

As a class project, I wrote a very simple music editor (kind of like those MOD format ones) that stored the notes in a text file. It did not use samples, just instructions for pitch and duration. I also wrote a "vector" drawing program which stored your drawings as a series of drawing instructions that could be played back and it was a text based format as well. It had save and load and undo functions.

I've been working in the software industry as a developer for over 12 years now but sadly, I've been writing software for windows mostly and some linux (server) stuff.

 

[macintologist]

Could someone port this to Mac OS X?

 

[Advance The Man]

+1....

I would not mind if people saw if I voted a story positive or negative. If anything, it would make the voting more realistic.

I voted negatively. This is not a rumor, it is a fact and it is boring. YAWN

 

[tjanuranus]

can MR please do away with the positive and negative voting? It's stupid and pointless. This thread is a perfect example of that. People vote negative for no reason and it shines a bad light on things that don't need it. Get rid of it!

 

[aristotle]

I voted negatively. This is not a rumor, it is a fact and it is boring. YAWN

Then ignore it if it does not interest you.

Not only did you take the time to vote negative but you replied to this thread. Seriously, how old are you?

 

[SandynJosh]

I started with a 128k Mac and got all the goodies as they were released, such as the ThunderWare scanner that you added to a ImageWriter printer.

I remember an Apple font that has a lot of very 2D images for the various font characters. Certain keys would make various train cars from an engine to flat cars and box cars and ended with a caboose. I loved to type out a whole train of text and when I hit the delete key the little train would run off the screen as into a tunnel. If I underlined the font, the little train even had track to run on.

I was a lot more easily amused back then

 

[z4n3]

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.

The G4 Cube great mistake¿ I had two of them and believe me mistake they where not! One of the BEST macs I have ever owned

I loved my Cube's design soooo much and this is going to sound really sad! I changed apartment and furniture so it could stand out more (In my defense I worked from home and had clients come over)

if they brought out a aluminum version tomorrow I would buy 2 WHATEVER
the price was!

This is a amazing gesture on Apples part, and downloaded the source code before even finishing to read the article haha

 

[murdercitydevil]

that's pretty sweet....I didn't even know about macpaint.

 

[Mousse]

Douglas C. Engelbart "I don't know why we call it a mouse. It started that way and we never changed it."

I thought they called it a "mouse" because of the "tail" that followed the cursor around when it moved. That's what I remembered anyhow. Watch the video and you'll see a "tail" following the cursor.

 

[kdarling]

I thought they called it a "mouse" because of the "tail" that followed the cursor around when it moved. That's what I remembered anyhow. Watch the video and you'll see a "tail" following the cursor.

That's a "trail", not a "tail"

It was called a mouse because it looked like one with the tail being the cord.

-- re: MacPaint

We had a local computer show back around 1985 with every computer type being demonstrated by their respective clubs.

The way that visitors came through, they were first amazed by the black and white Mac with MacPaint running.

Then a few booths down, there was a Tandy Color Computer running a MacPaint clone... except it was in color... using the Tandy X-Pad pen drawing tablet for input.... and an early Tandy color inkjet printer for output. It pretty well blew away the Apple booth for "wow" factor.

The next show, the Amiga appeared and everyone got blown away.

 

[Corbin052198]

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And MacPaint (and MacWrite) ran on a computer with only 128K of RAM and a 400K floppy drive.

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.

About running MacPaint on Classic....

I have one of the original versions (not MacPaint II or something) and I can only get it to run on Mini vMac (a mac plus emulator), and not OS 9 Boot CD or Classic. Oh well, that's still awsome

 

[Corbin052198]

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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?)

I have a copy of Windows 3.11 for Workgroups running under DOSBox (Couldn't get it to run under M$ Virtual PC crap) and I noticed the same thing.

Also noticed that from Windows 95 to XP, there was no change in Paint. Makes you wonder how much they care about Windows

 

[Advance The Man]

Then ignore it if it does not interest you.

Not only did you take the time to vote negative but you replied to this thread. Seriously, how old are you?

It's not relevant to what this website is about. It's not the Smithsonian, it's about new Apple technology. I'm old enough to realize this story is lame.

 

[ten-oak-druid]

Unfortunately for those of us who enjoy using Apple's painting and drawing programs, we are stuck with a clunky old appleworks application.

How about donating a new version of these to iwork.

 

[aristotle]

It's not relevant to what this website is about. It's not the Smithsonian, it's about new Apple technology. I'm old enough to realize this story is lame.

Why couldn't you have simply ignored it all together if it was supposedly of no interest to you? Was someone holding a gun to your head? If we don't know where we come from, how can we know who we are or dream of where we will go next? History is important for putting the present in perspective. Too many people these days have no clue of where they come from and so they have to spend a great deal of time trying to "find" themselves.

 

[LaazyEye]

Either I'm really bored, or am a nerd, but that brochure was a really interesting read =p