Way back in the day there was a fantastic piece of software from Brøderbund (of Lode Runner fame, among others) called The Toy Shop [0] that let you print custo

Way back in the day there was a fantastic piece of software from Brøderbund (of Lode Runner fame, among others) called The Toy Shop [0] that let you print customized papercraft designs that you would then assemble into working toys. Some of them were quite impressive - a steam shovel, a balloon-powered dragster, a mechanical clockwork bank, even a model steam engine! It is still one of the most unique and creative pieces of software I've ever seen. I guess maybe it didn't do that well, though, since there's unfortunately not a lot about it on the Internet now. There is a copy in the Internet Archive [1], though. It would be an interesting project to resurrect this, or at least extract the models into a modern format. 0: https://www.macintoshrepository.org/3278-the-toy-shop https://www.macintoshrepository.org/3278-the-toy-shop 1: https://archive.org/details/msdos_Toy_Shop_The_1986 https://archive.org/details/msdos_Toy_Shop_The_1986