I’ve been playing with an early version of MacPaint (v.1.5) on a 1985 Macintosh emulator. MacPaint was written by Bill Atkinson; the iconic interface and wonderfully crafted fonts were designed by the genius Susan Kare (who absolutely deserves her own dedicated entry on this page).
While it still lacks basic text-editing features like selecting, moving, transforming, or modifying text (later versions fixed these limitations), it’s surprisingly fun to use. Honestly, I could see myself downgrading my entire setup and working solely in black and white on a low-resolution screen.
Here’s a few experiments:
