#MacPaint

[microgeneration]

MacPaint ad, 1982

[macpaintdaily]

08/06/2025 | MacPaint 1.5

[macosfreddie]

rest in peace Bill Atkinson 🕊️🤍 

part of the original Mac team,

creator of MacPaint, QuickDraw and HyperCard

[limbriel]

and sometimes, all you get in return is rotten fruit.

[adafruit]

Playing Our Childhood Mac on the Fruit Jam 🍏💾

We grew up with a Mac Plus/512K, so getting the Pico-Mac 68000 emulator

working on Fruit Jam

was a high priority for those nostalgic vibes.

We've got HSTX DVI output plus a USB keyboard and mouse

and with a little effort, we built a 2-megabyte "disk" with some of our favorite games and apps:

MacPaint!

Lode Runner!

Shufflepuck Café!

What were your favorite games from the "classic" Mac era?

[2000ghosts]

january 12, 2009

[draincleanerpoisoning]

made in macpaint on macintosh 128k. 1987, by jim leftwich

[weaselsblaugh]

1-bit Commissions - let's try this instead!

Finding a job quickly is not in the cards. Begging for money is not my style. So here's what I'm going to do instead: opening for art commissions. But not just any art: 1-bit art, on my Macintosh Plus from 1986, with a Kensington trackball.

What I'll do:

Scenery!

Maybe a character if it's not too complicated!

Emoji and stickers maybe!

I will do this in whatever art program that will run on a 1986 Mac Plus - I like FullPaint but Kid Pix is also fun!

What you'll get:

A raw PNG image that you can use on your modern computer

A very nice photograph of the image being displayed on an original Mac Plus CRT screen (no fancy shaders here!)

If you really want me to, I'll send you a .DSK image with the original file on it, that you can load in your emulator, Floppy Emu, or write to an actual floppy disk for some reason

If you really, really want me to, I will find a way to record the whole process, probably by jury-rigging my phone up to a tripod and pointing it at the screen while I work, but that's enough of a pain that I'm charging extra for that

What I charge:

$30 for a scene.

$40 for a character, bear in mind I might reject if your character seems really complicated or intricate to draw

$60 if you want me to film the whole process because that's a whole rigamarole.

What I probably won't do:

Gore or nudity

Honestly the more angular your subject, the better, free-hand curves are not easy - did I mention I'm doing this with a trackball

This is the first time I've made this offer, so I'm hoping it's novel enough to spark interest.

If you'd like to get in touch, drop me an email - wild DOT weasel AT gmail DOT com. If I accept your commission, I'll mail you back instructions on how to send payment.

[pixelsproject]

『MacPaint』 Woodcut

Hasiguchi Goyo's Woman Combing Her Hair recreated in MacPaint by Susan Kare. This image was often used in advertisements for Apple's Macintosh.

[macpaintdaily]

Heck ya. I'm super stoked i figured all of this out. I used an actual Macintosh manual to help. The instructions are actually a lil more complicated than I wrote in the image but that's basically a simplified version of what I did. But, yeah! that image was made entirely using photoshop 3.0 and MacPaint 1.5 :]

[doyouremem8erme]

self portrait in macpaint (running on an online classic mac emulator) done in ~1 hour. still getting the hang of this program but it was fun

[pistoletgauche]

[morerogue]

[bauhausdog]

[krjpalmer]

MacAddict January 2004

The only Macintosh you could buy at the beginning of 1984 and the top-of-the-line model at the beginning of 2004 (with a comment inside that "the G5 microprocessor will be inside Macs for five years or more") share space on this issue's anniversary cover. Along with the retrospective cover story, the news section had an interview with Steve Wozniak. "Woz," who'd started his new company "Wheels of Zeus" and owned nine Segway Human Transporters, mentioned he was now using Mac OS X but still missed the Mac OS 9 interface. (One article insisted Mac OS X 10.3 "Panther" was fully worth its $129 upgrade price.)

[courseyoulovemeyoudontknowme]

Steve Jobs (2015, Danny Boyle)

31/08/2024