I’m going to lean into #Apple software:
#MacPaint
#QuickDraw
#HyperCard
#QuickTime
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Bill Atkinson was a wizard!
I’m going to lean into #Apple software:
#MacPaint
#QuickDraw
#HyperCard
#QuickTime
~~~
Bill Atkinson was a wizard!
Classic MacPaint Art
From July of last year, the blog called decryption posted a bunch of wondrous examples of 1-bit MacPaint art from the early days of the platform. MacPaint had a distinctive aesthetic: tiny dots, each either white or black, favored the use of dithering to create makeshift […]
Just finished reading “Buffalo Hunter Hunter’ by Stephen Graham Jones last night.
Whoa!
Gripping from start to finish, extremely well done, makes me curious for more Western Horror.
Thanks to @komara.bsky.social for the excellent rec!
#fanart #bookart #buffalohunterhunter #procreate #macpaint
Playing around with some texture brushes and decided to sketch my favorite Bug Boyz, Zuckuss and 4-LOM.
(No-one shake my head canon of them as grouchy gruff dad and exuberant wiseass son.)
#zuckuss #4lom #starwars #bountyhunters #empirestrikesback #fanart #blackandwhite #procreate #macpaint
#Design #Launches
Classic Mac patterns · The original 8×8-pixel black and white patterns ilo.im/166n5k by Paul Smith
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#Mac #MacPaint #Patterns #Backgrounds #Images #ProductDesign #UiDesign #WebDesign #Collections
Hasiguchi Goyo’s Woman Combing Her Hair recreated in MacPaint by Susan Kare. This image was often used in advertisements for Apple’s Macintosh.
#pixelsproject #macpaint
The image depicts a vintage computer setup, featuring a CRT monitor, a keyboard, and a mouse. The monitor displays a simple graphic of two crossed pencils, one a pencil and the other a pen, symbolizing writing or drawing. The computer has a bulky, boxy design typical of early personal computers, with a large, square monitor and a separate keyboard. The keyboard is connected to the monitor by a cable, and a mouse is positioned to the left of the keyboard. The background is a gradient of black to white, with a dotted texture that adds depth to the image. The overall style is reminiscent of early digital illustrations, with a monochromatic color scheme and a halftone dot pattern. Provided by @altbot, generated privately and locally using Ovis2-8B
MacPaint Art From The Mid-80s Still Looks Great Today via decryption's blog [Shared]
welchwrite.com/blog/2025/08...
#mac #macintosh #macplus #macse #art #artwork #macpaint #monochrome #shared
💯 agreed that these are beautiful 😍🖼️:
“MacPaint Art From The Mid-80s Still Looks Great Today”, Anthony Agius (blog.decryption.net.au/posts/macpai...).
Via HN: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4454...
#Art #MacPaint #Macintosh #OldSkool #Nostalgia #RetroComputing #Drawing #Dithering #Pointillism
HN discussion on 80s MacPaint art. Explores aesthetic completeness, how tech limits shaped art, and nostalgia for early computer graphics. Why does this simple art still appeal? 🤔 #MacPaint 1/6
A close-up of black-and-white pixelated tool icons printed on textured paper, arranged in a grid with dotted outlines. Tools include a hand, text tool, paint bucket, spray can, paintbrush, and pencil, rendered in a 1-bit bitmaps from MacPaint.
Stipple Experiment. Using #MacPaint as the source. #p5 #NextDraw
Title screen of my "Bird Anatomy" HyperCard stack, as it was published in 1993.
Bird Anatomy, my first serious HyperCard stack, originally from late 1987. RIP, Bill Atkinson, far too soon...
#HyperCard #Apple #BillAtkinson #MacPaint #MacDraw
#MacWrite und #MacPaint laufen nicht drauf, aber sonst habe ich nichts an dem Schmuckstück auszusetzen: Der #Macintosh aus #Legokompatiblen #ZuruMax-#Klemmbausteine|n. #clickomaniach
He didn’t just code; he designed the way we see computers. Farewell to Bill Atkinson, a true software artist. #Apple #BillAtkinson #Macintosh #MacPaint #HyperCard #QuickDraw #TechHistory community.designtaxi.com/topic/12722-...
RIP Bill Atkinson, creator of #HyperCard, #MacPaint, and much more. His software was way ahead of its time.
Myst and Riven co-creator Robyn Miller reflected on how much they owed to his software: bsky.app/profile/tinselman.bsky.s... […]
RIP #BillAtkinson 😢 #quickdraw #macintosh #macpaint #hypercard www.macg.co/aapl/2025/06...
RIP Bill Atkinson - one of the original Macintosh team.
He created both MacPaint & Hypercard which had a big influence on me as a kid.
appleinsider.com/articles/25/06/07/bill-a...
#BillAtkinson #RIP #Macintosh #Hypercard #MacPaint
From #macgarden on Libera:
#MacPaint creator & all-round visionary genius Bill Atkinson, whose brilliant #HyperCard was the inspiration for the World Wide Web, has died aged 74.
daringfireball.net/linked/2025/...
Photo of Bill Atkinson rendered in 1-bit Atkinson dithering
RIP Bill Atkinson
#Apple #Mac #Macintosh #inventor #artist #pirate #vintageApple #MacPaint #HyperCard #QuickDraw #hero #RIP
El pasado 5 de junio, fallece Bill Atkinson a los 74 años víctima de cáncer. Creador de MacPaint, el genio detrás del Macintosh y la GUI de la Mac y Lisa, su legado eterno. #retrocomputingmx #Macintosh #billatkinson #macpaint #historiadelacomputación
retrocomputingmx.com/omeu
fuuuuck, idk who it was, but someone posted a link to a macintosh replica and i used the macpaint app to draw more lucy. honestly? i think i could do more of this.
#art
#oc
#macpaint
“One of two launch applications for the #Apple #Macintosh in 1984, #MacPaint is emblematic of the Macintosh’s early quirky revolutionary branding, focus on ease of use, and appeal to artistic customers. Using the source code, we examine the design and implementation of the application.” […]
#Shatter by #FirstComics #1984 #MacIntosh #MacPaint
Monochrome bitmap from the GridWars a game written by Roy Harvey loaded into FullPaint. It shows an alien bar. Both FullPaint and GridWars were released by Ann Arbor.
"It’s almost like heresy to suggest that #MacPaint could have been better... Well, we have some bad news and some good news. Bad news: it could have been done better. Good news: now it is." FullPaint in June '86. Alphie’s Bar in screenshot from Grid Wars. systemtalk.org/post/macinto...
Bill Atkinson (black and white portrait from about 1985)
Old Macintosh computer (probably Mac 128, Mac 512 or Mac Plus) with MacPaint
Part of the source code for MacPaint in the Pascal programming language
Bill Atkinson, a key architect of Mac OS and the associated revolution in human-software interfacing, developed QuickDraw (the original Mac graphics technology), #MacPaint and #HyperCard.
The source of MacPaint (in #Pascal and assembly language) is available.
github.com/samoli/MacPa...
皆様今年も一年ありがとうございました🙏
年末動画 & 曲を作りました🎧
良いお年を!
#2024 #今年もありがとうございました #ambient #chillsynth #macintosh #macpaint