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MacPaint-themed interface for Tldraw
- prewett 5y agoIt's not MacPaint without Fat Bits! And all those fill patterns... I remember using the brick pattern to make a wall and then spray-painting on it with the spray paint can. After that I kind of ran out of ideas on what to do.
- re 5y agoI can still easily picture some of the patterns in my head, like the 3d ball one and the pie crust lattice one. https://ia601607.us.archive.org/11/items/mac_Paint_2/00_screenshot.png https://ia601607.us.archive.org/11/items/mac_Paint_2/00_scre... Also, as a fairly young kid using MacPaint, I never really understood that the icon for the fill/paint can tool literally represented paint being poured out of a can; it always just looked like a unique, sort of abstract cursor shape to me. It wasn't until decades later using Pixelmator with its more photo-realistic tool icon (with the paint pouring out the opposite side) that I connected the dots on why the fill tool looks the way it does. It does give me sympathy for younger folks during the period of time when "Save" was still commonly represented by a floppy disk. (Screenshot of the Pixelmator tool palette here: https://apple.stackexchange.com/q/139323 https://apple.stackexchange.com/q/139323)
- logbiscuitswave 5y agoCame here to say the same. I was willing to overlook the vectorization creating a very unexpected aesthetic. But the missing pattern brushes were a bridge too far! The real version of MacPaint can be found here: https://archive.org/details/mac_Paint_2 https://archive.org/details/mac_Paint_2 but it’s not particularly mobile friendly.
- twic 5y agoThere was a trick where you drew a circle, selected it, then there was a way to drag it around, leaving behind copies (option-drag?), which if you did it slowly and carefully, gave a decent approximation of a pipe. I remember drawing lots of intricate pipe networks as a child.
- monitron 5y agoBeing that this is a vector tool, maybe they should have emulated MacDraw instead. My favorite thing to do with the Macintosh in my third grade classroom was to draw intricate mazes in MacPaint and then use the paint bucket tool on them. With that processor and algorithm, one could watch the maze complete itself in real time. A decidedly raster pastime!
- jahewson 5y agoFlood fill - the original AI!
- 0x20cowboy 5y agoI really miss the platinum UI. I’ve seen a few attempts at themes that kind of look like it for gtk, but they bit rot way too fast. Ah nostalgia.
- 29athrowaway 5y agoIf nostalgia is what you want, this is Steve Jobs introducing the Macintosh in 1984: https://youtu.be/1tQ5XwvjPmA?t=500 https://youtu.be/1tQ5XwvjPmA?t=500
- kadomony 5y agoI'm pretty sure this is just a skinned version of tldraw set to a Mac UI.
- cortesoft 5y agoKidPix is my nostalgic painting program.
- btrettel 5y agoNeoPaint [0] for DOS was probably my first. I have few specific memories of using the software, unfortunately. But I ran it in DOSBox sometime in the last year and found the experience familiar but also not. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeoPaint https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeoPaint
- atdrummond 5y agoOh my, I thought until a number of years ago KidPix was a fever dream I imagined because nobody else in my hometown had ever used it or heard of it.
- natnatenathan 5y agoAs great as this recreation is, it can't be MacPaint without the spray can and paint patterns.
- joshu 5y agoKoala Paint, anyone?
- lostgame 5y agoIt's very cute, but all the fun was ruined for me as soon as I saw it was vector-based. Part of the charm of that era was the pixel-by-pixel determination.
- jborichevskiy 5y agoFor anyone curious, the underlying tool is https://www.tldraw.com/ https://www.tldraw.com/ -- an absolutely delightful open source project I've been obsessed with. https://github.com/Tldraw/Tldraw https://github.com/Tldraw/Tldraw