Comments on: Trivia Contest and Celebration

By: Jim Everson

Jim Everson — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 04:40:53 +0000

Hey, great! I wasn’t sure I had that right. This definitely proves that my “old school” knowledge of Mac trivia is still intact. Thanks for the contest and especially thanks for such an enjoyable website.

I remember the days of 8 bit paint programs with fondness. The 2 front runners were Studio/8 and Pixelpaint. Studio/8 evolved into Studio/32 and tried to give Photoshop 1.0 some competition. Both Studio/32 and Pixelpaint seemed to disappear some time around 1991. I wonder what became of them.

I was in the games industry then and used all of these programs at one time or another to create art for several Broderbund titles. Oddly enough, I ended up relying mostly on the built in paint tools of (Macromind) Director 4.0.

By: Mike Evangelist

Mike Evangelist — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 22:22:40 +0000

Jim – You’re right; it was PixelPaint!

By: Alex Wasserman

Alex Wasserman — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 22:21:41 +0000

Showing off the Mac IIs colour display?

Or showing off GIF downloads on the internet?

By: Jim Everson

Jim Everson — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 22:02:12 +0000

I seem to recall those images being used, not with a vector package, but an old paint package. Were they for Studio8 or Pixelpaint?

By: Al LeVine

Al LeVine — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 21:26:14 +0000

clip art from claris works

By: mike

mike — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 21:12:34 +0000

It is reminding me of my old Performa 6320cd… Is it part of The Writing Center (name?), a bundled word processing application, maybe the cover box or something?

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 21:04:35 +0000

Was it used with the introduction of the first color apple?

By: Oliver

Oliver — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 20:47:52 +0000

Has it got something to do with the Mac II, the first mac with a colour display?

By: Mike Evangelist

Mike Evangelist — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 20:41:06 +0000

Sorry, no cigar. HyperCard was black and white only in those days.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 20:34:20 +0000

These illustrations were part of the HyperCard software that Apple introduced in August 1987.