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Fell in love with Altsys Virtuoso on my NeXT Cube, then was relieved when Virtuoso 2 was ported to Mac OS and Windows as FreeHand 4, and used various versions o
by WillAdams 3y ago
Fell in love with Altsys Virtuoso on my NeXT Cube, then was relieved when Virtuoso 2 was ported to Mac OS and Windows as FreeHand 4, and used various versions of that all the way through beta-testing Freehand/MX and providing feedback on _Real World Freehand_ (which was one of the best ever computer books, and much of which was re-used as _Real World InDesign).
Still using it in Windows 11 on my Samsung Galaxy Book 3 Pro 360 --- I just wish that there was a reasonable way to run FutureWave SmartSketch.
There have been a number of attempts to re-create it, most of which have stalled:
- GraviT
- Serif's Affinity Designer (I believe this actually opens FH/MX files)
It kills me that Adobe couldn't at least put all of Freehand's functionality into InDesign. Even so, I'd rather draw in ID than AI (which I've been using since v3.2 on a NeXT Cube and have never found very comfortable, despite the many FH features which it has copied).