{"id":755,"date":"2010-11-04T09:12:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-04T14:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.crushapps.com\/?p=96"},"modified":"2020-05-15T01:56:59","modified_gmt":"2020-05-15T01:56:59","slug":"made-in-macpaint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crushapps.com\/made-in-macpaint\/","title":{"rendered":"Made In MacPaint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year Apple released the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerhistory.org\/highlights\/macpaint\/\">source code to MacPaint<\/a> &#8211; the revolutionary graphics program that originally came with the first Macintosh computers in 1984.<\/p>\n<p>My parents had purchased one of the original 512k Macs then, so I was lucky enough to get to play around with it. When I heard that the source code to MacPaint had been released, I decided to dig up some of the old things I had created with it.<\/p>\n<p>These were made during the period of 1987 &#8211; 1989 using MacPaint.<\/p>\n<p>Reproduced from line art of a space shuttle in an ad I found at the back of a magazine:<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-container\" style=\"padding: 10px 0 0 0;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"Space Shuttle\" href=\"https:\/\/crushapps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Space_Shuttle.gif\" rel=\"macpaint\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image\" style=\"max-width: 405px; margin: 0 auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/crushapps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Space_Shuttle.gif\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Just a scene with a car I drew for fun. In retrospect, that airplane is flying a bit low:<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-container\" style=\"padding: 10px 0 0 0;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"Car\" href=\"https:\/\/crushapps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Car.gif\" rel=\"macpaint\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image\" style=\"max-width: 416px; margin: 0 auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/crushapps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Car.gif\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>This last one reflects my early fascination with keyboards\/synthesizers. I owned a lowly consumer level Casio keyboard, but dreamed of owning something like the Ensoniq VFX. I don&#8217;t recall exactly, but I must have drawn this based on some diagram in a keyboard magazine. Now that I&#8217;m all grown up, I own an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alesis.com\/fusion8hd\">Alesis Fusion 8HD keyboard<\/a>, which has a lot of the sounds from keyboards I used to dream of owning (thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollowsun.com\/HS2\/freepacks\/fusion.htm\">Hollow Sun<\/a> and others):<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-container\" style=\"padding: 10px 0 0 0;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"Ensoniq VFX Setup\" href=\"https:\/\/crushapps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/VFX_Setup.gif\" rel=\"macpaint\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image\" style=\"max-width: 576px; margin: 0 auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/crushapps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/VFX_Setup.gif\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Having a Macintosh with MacPaint at an early age helped me develop an interest in design and technical drawing &#8211; and for that I am grateful to Bill Atkinson and the rest of the MacPaint\/QuickDraw teams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year Apple released the source code to MacPaint &#8211; the revolutionary graphics program that originally came with the first Macintosh computers in 1984. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crushapps.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crushapps.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crushapps.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crushapps.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crushapps.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crushapps.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":859,"href":"https:\/\/crushapps.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755\/revisions\/859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crushapps.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crushapps.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crushapps.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}