The Computer History Museum announced on Tuesday that Apple had donated the source code of both MacPaint and QuickDraw to the museum. The code has been made available for free download by the ...

MacPaint is considered the great-great-great-great-grandparent of those applications, and while it’s certainly showing its age (color?, ha) poking around the original app’s simulated interface ...

Now you can travel nearly 30 years back in time and create with MacPaint. It’s a reminder of how much the Mac team did with so little. Unless you’ve booted up your original Macintosh 128K ...

Original Mac developer and creator of (among other things) MacPaint Bill Atkinson published some sad news on Facebook today. He’s been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and is requesting prayers. From ...

MacPaint shipped with the Macintosh in 1984 and is the mother of all modern graphics programs. If you miss those days, or never got a chance to experience MacPaint for yourself, developer Martin Braun ...

What's more retro Mac than MacPaint? It was the application that drew many of us to the joys of Macintosh in 1984, as there was nothing like it on any other platform. The app, which was included ...

The site also features a nice accompanying story of the history of MacPaint’s development from Apple Lisa tool SketchPad, along with a lovely photo of MacPaint coder Bill Atkinson and Steve Jobs ...

The MacPaint source code is now available and clocks in at 5,822 lines of Pascal and 3,583 lines of 68000 assembly. Apple's early QuickDraw library was also released as 17,101 lines of 68000 assembly.