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  1. Found the very first #3D Modeling program I ever used circa 1992, "3D-Edit."
    It came with a bunch of shareware on a 105MB hard disk I got from my parents that year. The program itself was released in 1986.

    https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/3d-edit

    #ReadTheAltText

    #ClassicMac #ClassicMacintosh #RetroComputing #3dGraphics #Modeler

  2. 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. :alogo6:

    #RIPBillAtkinson #HyperCard #MystGame #Lisa #ClassicMacOS #QuickDraw #Dithering #AtkinsonDithering #ClassicMacs #ClassicMacintosh #Mac128K #MarchingAnts #MacPaint #FatBits
    social.europlus.zone/@europlus

  3. @morgant

    The SE/30 was one of my grail machines, because I had a regular SE, and I always dreamed about having a machine that would be ~3+ times faster ;)

    The color classic was so adorkable. I remember seeing 10" trinitrons on fancy pay phones in the early 90s and thinking, "Why can't Apple make a classic mac with THIS screen??" Surely enough, they did!

    It's funny now that I so fondly reminisce about #monochrome interfaces like #ClassicMacintosh and #OpenLook / #OpenWindows, because back then, I literally dreamed of having color, especially the #Amiga! ;)

  4. #Programming project #PipeDream: come up with my own #SerenityOS-like project, but instead of a love letter to 32-bit windows machines, make it a love letter to 16/24-bit #ClassicMacintosh and other monochrome machines like early Unix workstations. ;)

  5. 35 years ago today, this beautiful machine came into my life.
    This photo was taken in 2011, two years before I sadly gave it away (due to a rushed interstate move).