Mastodawn

For my QuickDraw renderer, I'm looking for a Pict file with an embedded ColorSync profile, would anyone have such a file?

#quickdraw #classicmac #retrocomputing

Verfassungklage@troet.cafe 4d ago

Kopf hinter #Quickdraw:

#Entwickler Bill #Atkinson mit 74 Jahren verstorben

Durch seine #Arbeit an #Quickdraw und #Macpaint gilt er als wichtiger #Apple- #Entwickler. Nun ist #BillAtkinson an Bauchspeicheldrüsenkrebs verstorben.

#SteveJobs holte Atkinson als Mitarbeiter Nr. 51 zu #Apple und zum ersten Entwicklungsteam der Firma. Dem #Programmierer ist die #Quickdraw- #Bilschirmtechnologie mit ihren auffälligen abgerundeten Ecken zu verdanken.

https://www.golem.de/news/kopf-hinter-quickdraw-entwickler-bill-atkinson-mit-74-jahren-verstorben-2506-196954.html

Kopf hinter Quickdraw: Entwickler Bill Atkinson mit 74 Jahren verstorben - Golem.de

Durch seine Arbeit an Quickdraw und Macpaint gilt er als wichtiger Apple-Entwickler. Nun ist Bill Atkinson an Bauchspeicheldrüsenkrebs verstorben.

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🔏 Matthias Wiesmann 4d ago

Took advantage of the long week-end to make a new release of my personal project: QuickDraw viewer, a tool to visualise and convert QD images used on old Macintosh computer into something modern like PDF or PNG.

This was mostly a maintenance release, switching to Swift 6 and adding the relevant synchronisation annotations. It's far from perfect but it works. I also improved the localisation, and some the documentation.

#quickdraw #retrocomputing #swift #macosx

https://github.com/wiesmann/QuickDrawViewer

GitHub - wiesmann/QuickDrawViewer: Initial add of the QuickDraw viewer project

Initial add of the QuickDraw viewer project. Contribute to wiesmann/QuickDrawViewer development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub

Chris Hanson 4d ago

In honor of Bill Atkinson, I’ve been reading the QuickDraw source code released by CHM and writing a little C implementation of his Region structure, which was an incredibly elegant solution to a problem so many people working on window systems never even realized they had. RIP Bill. #retrocomputing #BillAtkinson #QuickDraw

Nancy 4d ago

tried to quickdraw an axolotl. love this little creatures. I'm not good ad drawing quick 'cause I'm just way to focused in details instead of modelling the figure with simple forms and slowly working them out. But I keep practicing.
So this was not that quckily done. I like how the face turned out, but the belly got way to dark.

#axolotl #animaldrawing #quickdraw #practice #üben #polychromos #zeichnen #mastoart #art #sketch #pencildrawing

Barijaona Ramaholimihaso 5d ago

Reactions from the assistance during Bill Atkinson's presentation of MacPaint are a strong reminder of the technical prowesses he did in his code to sublimate the hardware capabilities available at the time.

https://youtu.be/1tQ5XwvjPmA?feature=shared
#RIP #Apple #BillAtkinson #QuickDraw #InsideMacintosh

Steve Jobs Introduces the Macintosh

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europlus

5d ago

I’m not a fan of self-boosting, but I realised I was remiss in not putting some hashtags on this post after it started gaining the small amount of traction it has.

For those who boosted or liked the original, I’m not asking or expecting a repeat. I just hope with these hashtags it gets a little more traction to acknowledge the genius of #BillAtkinson, who affected so many lives through the genius work he did.

I know he impacted many aspects of my life through the work he did on the Mac, the original System, and MacPaint, and it seems many others were similarly impacted.

It’s been truly inspiring for me to see Mac legends talk how he put the lie to the saying “Never meet your heroes”, as he seemed to have been a hero to many, and never a disappointment in person.

RIP, Bill.

#RIPBillAtkinson #HyperCard #MystGame #Lisa #ClassicMacOS #QuickDraw #Dithering #AtkinsonDithering #ClassicMacs #ClassicMacintosh #Mac128K #MarchingAnts #MacPaint #FatBits
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Just a reminder that the original Myst was developed using HyperCard, one of Bill Atkinson’s many masterpieces. But I’ll always remember how he thought overlapping windows (or perhaps the smooth movement of windows over each other) was a solveable problem because he recalled seeing that Xerox had solved it (they hadn’t), so he just worked it out because he then thought it could be. An amazing mind, now lost to us. RIP Bill, and thank you!

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