MacPaint and QuickDraw Source Code (2010)

>Even back then we had stupid process.

Having done this since then, my feeling is we had _more_ stupid process back then than today. It'd take a few hours and a few drinks to get to the bottom of why, but I recall the publication of books like "Code Complete" (1994?) as the beginning of the widespread push back against complete stupidity such as ISO9001.

Agreed. Going through that process right now with a tool I am developing. Its 4-5 iterations through various parts of the engine code. Each time, it takes less time and more importantly adds to the quality of the result. It does take longer, however, I am hoping that the efforts spent now to "set the application apart" from the rest, will be what consumers go for (Eg Unique capabilities/performance). In theory. Either that, or I have learnt a big lesson but I take the view that the outcome does not have to be perfect, only better than the rest. Then I will stop iterating. This application is not really the kind I could sit down and design as I am learning and experimenting on the way. Its painful. But with pain, comes growth. In theory.

Amen, Bill. I started my career as a programmer in that era, and I still do this, though less that 5 times as I have a few years of experience.

There are a couple of contemporary artists who are doing some interesting work with this whole "Mac classic style."

http://unomoralez.com https://vimeo.com/mattisdovier

And don't forget Cyberdog!

That software and MacPaint might be more useful to people if it were released as free software: software that respects people's freedom to run, inspect, modify, and share published software even commercially. As it is, there's no language in the license ("This Material is Copyright © 1984 Apple Inc. and is made available only for non-commercial use.") that allows one to do much of anything with MacPaint.

There was some shady Classic Mac OS Source floating about on a Hotline server I used to have access to. I looked at it, but I think it was almost totally in 68000 assembler, so it had minimal use/interest to me at the time.

AOCE is something that was just 15 years ahead of its time - it also had some minor (correctable) structural flaws - but still, its a very early peer to peer system, that mostly worked.

On my browser the text is #5B5B5B on white. Perhaps not dark enough for you, but I personally didn't find it difficult to read. I'm not sure what's going on with your browser that it's white on white.

OK, we changed the URL to that from https://github.com/gotchacode/macpaint.