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Haderach C. Kwisatch

"… As suggested by the title of an early manual Inside #MacPaint: Sailing through the Sea of FatBits on a Single-Pixel Raft, FatBits was a killer feature for MacPaint. For Susan Kare, Apple’s in-house graphic designer, the mode accelerated the development of Macintosh’s small bitmap icons where every pixel mattered.

"Marketing pushed to rename “FatBits” “Magnify”, but Atkinson won the argument, arguing that the name gave the program some personality (Young 1985).

"FatBits is restricted to a single zoom level and, within the code, is handled via many special-cased changes to the input and output. The single zoom level restriction was due to the limited hardware; an arbitrary scaling factor would have required too much CPU…"
ztoz.blog/posts/macpaint-sourc

ztoz.blogInvestigating MacPaint's Source Code | ℤ→ℤ
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Haderach C. Kwisatch

"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 program looks antiquated by today’s standards, it was pretty hot stuff back in the day. Things we take for granted today were big deals at the time. For example, being able to erase a part of something you drew prompted applause at an early public demo.

"We enjoyed the way the program was tested, too. A software “monkey” was made to type keys, move things, and click menus randomly. The teardown continues with a look inside the Pascal and assembly code with interesting algorithms like how the code would fill an area with color.

"The program has been called “beautifully organized,” and [Z→Z] examines that assertion. Maybe the brilliance of it has been overstated, but it did work and it did influence many computer graphics programs over the years."
hackaday.com/2025/04/05/a-look

Hackaday · A Look Inside MacPaintUsually 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 1…
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R.L. Dane :Debian: :OpenBSD: 🍵

Ok, guys...

I'm not sure I can quite express how bizarrely freeing and enjoyable this incredibly derpy little exercise was.

I'm definitely going to make a habit of drawing more, even though I really don't know how!

Because NoneHitWonder was right! The schlockiest napkin scrawl is better than the most sublime AI slop!

I was thinking about buying a used #Wacom tablet to draw on, because it would be fun to create #monochrome art in #G/IMP (or heck, even #MacPaint via emulation!!), but I think I'll just continue using my fountain pens, and add doodles to my dot-lined paper notebook.

Thanks to the following amazing people for inspiring me:

@nonehitwonder @krishnadraws

Napkin-drawn crude sketch of a classic-ish all-in-one computer with separate keyboard, pigtail power cable going out the back, and heat waves coming out the top of the monitor. Hand-written "Hi I don't know how to draw!" on the middle-right, and a goofy smiling face with long tongue poking out is on the bottom right. It is drawn in fairly thick, purple-colored lines (because of relatively thin fountain pen ink), and the (fake) terracotta-color LAMY Safari fountain pen is seen on the top right, with its cap on the top left.
polymaths.socialPost by R.L. Dane 🍵, @rl_dane@polymaths.social@nonehitwonder@tenforward.social P.S., You know, I think I'll make a point of posting random #doodles from now on!
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paulrickards

EDIT: Found, see reply!

Anyone know the origin/artist of this Ukiyo-e inspired Mac artwork? I found it in MacWorld Sept 1990 pg 330 in an article about Canvas 2.1.

Reverse image search just shows lots of Tumblr sites, but did give a somewhat pixel art version of it.

I cleaned up the image to try to make it 1:1 (there were duplicate rows/cols).

archive.org/details/MacWorld_9

Monochrome pixel artwork of three people using a Macintosh and ImageWriter in a Ukiyo-e style.
#RetroComputing#VintageMac#VintageApple
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Synergy-1

Operating Superstars intro — Phantom Piltdown

Phantom is the ghost of Macintosh System 5, the Classic Mac OS version that got skipped. She’s a silly prankster and never had a public debut but she was happy to help her teammates behind the scenes. She also pranked their rivals!

The bg has filters over it but the 1-bit black and white bg was made in #MacPaint

A portrait of Phantom. She is floating above the stage floor and has a mischievous expression. The background is a 1-bit black and white drawing with a night sky, a carnival in the distance on one side, and a castle on the other side. She has medium-length dark purple hair tied into a ponytail and wears a dress based off a 19th century circus performer outfit. Over her dress she wears a long black cape that is beige on the inside, and wears a platinum apple brooch with a bowtie in the rainbow Apple logo colors. Her dress has two layers; the top layer is white with trim in different colors, and the layer under it is light blue. They’re both about knee-length and she wears black tights with black boots. She also wears long black gloves and black mask-like glasses. Her right eye is purple and her left eye is light blue.
#MastoArt#CharacterDesign#Gijinka
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