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 ...

was one of the first big "wows" of the graphical UI. Before the early days of Mac OS, operating systems were strictly text affairs, and creating graphics was done mostly by writing code. But MacPaint ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Here’s another lovely short video from Matthew Pearce, the man behind the Matt’s Macintosh YouTube channel. MacPaint doesn’t just explain what MacPaint was, but is more about why it was an important ...

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 ...

There isn’t much to say about Cloudpaint in the cloud other than it’s MacPaint… in your browser. That’s right – go browse to the site and enjoy the wonders of 1984-style B&W ink and square brushes.

Businessweek reports that Apple has donated the original source code for MacPaint to the Computer History Museum. Released in 1984 with the Mac, it is fondly remembered not only by those who used it, ...