Paint is Great!
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You are so lucky. And it does an ellipse
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So nobody remembers MacPaint? It was black and white, and I loved it. The application, together with MacWrite and the operating system fitted on a single 600 Kb floppy, with space left over for documents. The year for me was about 1986-7
Anssi
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Hey Anssi do you remember the early MacDraw? In the early days it was like a 'Pro' version of MacPaint offering more precision. I knew people who used to use it for CAD (and their construction drawings were criminally bad).
Perhaps of interest is the fact that eBay was founded by the same guy who created MacDraw for Claris. He's now a billionaire more than eight times over. Here's the story.Regards, Ross
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Ross,
There was even a "professional" version of Claris Draw called Claris Cad. It had some simple scale, snap and dimensioning features. Not bad at all, and it worked OK on a Macintosh Plus.
If I remember right, the creator of Mac Paint was a guy called Bill Atkinson, who also invented HyperCard that is the thing I most miss from the older Macs, almost anything could be done with it.
He was also the inventor of the Marching ants, Menu bar and The Selection lasso (according to Wikipedia)
Anssi
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Did you notice the woman in that video bares a striking resemblance to Gillian Anderson?
I used to have a Sinclair ZX Spectrum+ 48K, really cool about 1983. It came with a drawing program called Vu3D that must have been state of the art in its time. It used polar coordinates and keyline entry. After hours of keying stuff in it could create 3D rotated objects, extrusions and did a shaded view. Tended to crash alot though. Actually it's beginning to sound a bit like AutoCAD.
Just found a link http://www.clive.nl/detail/22808/
Hi-tec!
Then check out this; Mona Lisa in Ms Paint http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uk2sPl_Z7ZU
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@unknownuser said:
I used to have a Sinclair ZX Spectrum+ 48K, really cool about 1983. It came with a drawing program called Vu3D that must have been state of the art in its time. It used polar coordinates and keyline entry. After hours of keying stuff in it could create 3D rotated objects, extrusions and did a shaded view.
That brings back some memories. I had the same setup back in the early 80s.
Mike
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I had no idea then that I'd be doing CAD for a living!
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This topic reminds me of a time back in the early 80s
when I got very interested in CAD. I came across a company
(Cambridge CAD or something similar) that were advertising
a system for £100,000 but they left out one of the '0' in
the advert. I enjoyed phoning them and talking 'seriously'
about a system at £10,000. Now better systems are available
for a fraction of the price ..... if only cars and such
dropped like this in price
Mike
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My dad worked for 30 years in Cad Cam in the aircraft industry on "stste of the art" tape drive computers that filled rooms. Now he is amazed at how fast Sketchup can render a hidden line view, that was time consuming stuff when he was using CAD.
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@anssi said:
So nobody remembers MacPaint? It was black and white, and I loved it. The application, together with MacWrite and the operating system fitted on a single 600 Kb floppy, with space left over for documents. The year for me was about 1986-7
Anssi
I remember when I grasped the concept of FATBITS. What a revelation!
You'd actually manipulate individual picture block thingies!
Oh yeah- prixels, right? :ewink:
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