MacPaint
MacPaint is a raster graphics editor developed by Apple Computer and released with the original Macintosh personal computer on January 24, 1984. It was sold separately for US$195 with its word processing counterpart, MacWrite. MacPaint was notable because it could generate graphics that could be used by other applications. It taught consumers what a graphics-based system could do by using the mouse, the clipboard, and QuickDraw picture language. Pictures could be cut from MacPaint and pasted into MacWrite documents.
A picture in MacPaint 1.0, drawn by Susan Kare | |
| Developer(s) | Apple Computer, Claris |
|---|---|
| Initial release | 1984 |
| Final release | 2.0
/ January 24, 1988 |
| Written in | Pascal |
| Operating system | Classic Mac OS (System 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 System 6 System 7) |
| Type | Raster graphics editor |
| License | Proprietary |
| Filename extension | .pntg |
|---|---|
| Type code | PNTG |
| Uniform Type Identifier (UTI) | com.apple.macpaint-image |
| Developed by | Apple Computer |
| Type of format | Image file |
The original MacPaint was developed by Bill Atkinson, a member of Apple's original Macintosh development team. Early development versions of MacPaint were called MacSketch, still retaining part of the name of its roots, LisaSketch. It was later developed by Claris, the software subsidiary of Apple which was formed in 1987. The last version of MacPaint was version 2.0, released in 1988. It was discontinued by Claris in 1998 because of diminishing sales.