Unless you’ve booted up your original Macintosh 128K recently–you know, that one with all the Mac team’s signatures inside that would have been a serious collector’s item had you kept it–you probably ...

Start sharpening your lasso skills! The 1984 software program MacPaint gets new life as a fully usable Web version called CloudPaint. Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news ...

Usually when we talk about retrocomputing, we want to look at — and in — some old hardware. But [Z→Z] has a different approach: dissecting MacPaint, the Apple drawing program from the 1980s. While the ...

MacPaint shipped with the Macintosh in 1984 and is the mother of all modern graphics programs. If you miss those days, or never got a chance to experience MacPaint for yourself, developer Martin Braun ...

Original Mac developer and creator of (among other things) MacPaint Bill Atkinson published some sad news on Facebook today. He’s been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and is requesting prayers. From ...

MacPaint was a painting software that came standard with the Macintosh released by Apple in 1984, and was an innovative software that showed the prototype of a graphical user interface (GUI) such as ...

Apple on Tuesday released the source code for MacPaint and QuickDraw, two important pieces of programming from the early days of Apple, to the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif. MacPaint ...

If you were a Mac user in the 1980s, chances are you knew—and loved—Apple’s MacPaint drawing program, developed by Bill Atkinson. The application, which paved the way for programs like Photoshop by ...

If it wasn’t for artists who embraced the company’s computers, Apple might not have survived to release the iPod. And were it not for MacPaint, the simple (by today’s standards) bitmap-based painting ...