MacPaint
Sign in to saveMacPaint is a raster graphics editor developed by Apple Computer and released alongside the original Macintosh personal computer on January 24, 1984. It was sold bundled with its word processing counterpart, MacWrite, for US$195. 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.
Key facts
- Software.screenshot
- MacpaintWP.png
- Software.caption
- A picture in MacPaint 1.0
- Software.developer
- Apple Computer, Claris
- Software.latest_release_version
- 2.0
- Software.programming language
- Pascal
- Software.operating_system
- Classic Mac OS(System 1, 2, 3, 4, 5System 6System 7)
- Software.genre
- Raster graphics editor
- Software.license
- Proprietary
- Software.discontinued
- yes
- File format.name
- MacPaint image
- File format.type code
- PNTG
- File format.uniform type
- com.apple.macpaint-image
- File format.owner
- Apple Computer
- File format.genre
- Image file
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MacPaint is a raster graphics editor developed by Apple Computer and released alongside the original Macintosh personal computer on January 24, 1984. It was sold bundled with its word processing counterpart, MacWrite, for US$195. 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.
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.