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Intaglio for mac12/29/2023 ![]() In Mac OS X, QuickDraw is no longer the system’s native windowing and screen-painting technology that honor goes to Quartz. SuperPaint, the subject of one my earliest TidBITS reviews, was another MacPaint/MacDraw knock-off it’s no longer available, but if you have a copy lying around, you’ll find it still runs pretty well under Classic. You can still recapture some of that first careless rapture by playing a little with the Paint and Draw modules of AppleWorks, if you have it these are intended to emulate (and may, in a sense, be direct descendants of) MacPaint and MacDraw, though naturally with some modern touches. You could draw a square or an oval, with a thick or thin line, filled solid or with a pattern, because those were all basic QuickDraw primitives in effect, you were accessing the very same code that gave the Mac itself its distinctive look, allowing it to draw windows and buttons in the first place. Remember the magical feeling you had when you first used a Macintosh, and played with those early bundled applications, MacPaint and MacDraw? The magic – though you may not have been conscious of this at the time – lay in the fact that these tiny applications were essentially just showcases for the Mac’s underlying technology. #1628: iPhone 14 impressions, Dark Sky end-of-life, tales from Rogue Amoeba.#1629: iOS 16.0.2, customizing the iOS 16 Lock Screen, iPhone wallet cases, meditate for free with Oak.#1630: Apple Books changes in iOS 16, simplified USB branding, recovering a lost Google Workspace account. ![]() #1631: iOS 16.0.3 and watchOS 9.0.2, roller coasters trigger Crash Detection, Medications in iOS 16, watchOS 9 Low Power Mode.#1632: Apple Card Savings accounts, SOS in the iPhone status bar, Tab Wrangler, Focus in iOS 16.
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