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MacintoshGarden FeedMacSketch and MacPaint BootScreen and Graphics<a href="https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/macsketch-and-macpaint-bootscreen-and-graphics" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/macsketch-and-macpaint-bootscreen-and-graphics</a>This BootScreen were found on Twiggy Discs from a prototype Mac with MacSketch/MacPaint applications on.<a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/macgarden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#macgarden</a> <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/applecomputerinc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#applecomputerinc</a> <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/billatkinson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#billatkinson</a> <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/susankare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#susankare</a>

Flipboard Tech DeskComputer engineer and Apple veteran William "Bill" Atkinson has died of pancreatic cancer at age 74. Atkinson created the QuickDraw graphics engine, which made the Macintosh interface possible and, says <a href="https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@arstechnica</a>'s <a href="https://mastodon.social/@benjedwards" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@benjedwards</a>, "transformed abstract computer science into intuitive visual experiences that millions would use daily." "I say this with no hyperbole: Bill Atkinson may well have been the best computer programmer who ever lived," wrote veteran Apple analyst <a href="https://mastodon.social/@gruber" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@gruber</a> on his Daring Fireball blog. "Without question, he's on the short list. What a man, what a mind, what gifts to the world he left us." Here's Edwards' story; find Gruber's full tribute at the second link.<a href="https://flip.it/UJO0cf" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://flip.it/UJO0cf</a><a href="https://flip.it/ImgyIy" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://flip.it/ImgyIy</a><a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/ComputerScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ComputerScience</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/BillAtkinson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BillAtkinson</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/SoftwareEngineering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SoftwareEngineering</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Apple</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Tech</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Technology</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/RIP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RIP</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/InMemoriam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#InMemoriam</a>

Verfassungklage@troet.cafeKopf hinter <a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/Quickdraw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Quickdraw</a>: <a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/Entwickler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Entwickler</a> Bill <a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/Atkinson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Atkinson</a> mit 74 Jahren verstorbenDurch seine <a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/Arbeit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Arbeit</a> an <a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/Quickdraw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Quickdraw</a> und <a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/Macpaint" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Macpaint</a> gilt er als wichtiger <a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Apple</a>- <a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/Entwickler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Entwickler</a>. Nun ist <a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/BillAtkinson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BillAtkinson</a> an Bauchspeicheldrüsenkrebs verstorben. <a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/SteveJobs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SteveJobs</a> holte Atkinson als Mitarbeiter Nr. 51 zu <a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Apple</a> und zum ersten Entwicklungsteam der Firma. Dem <a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/Programmierer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Programmierer</a> ist die <a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/Quickdraw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Quickdraw</a>- <a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/Bilschirmtechnologie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Bilschirmtechnologie</a> mit ihren auffälligen abgerundeten Ecken zu verdanken. <a href="https://www.golem.de/news/kopf-hinter-quickdraw-entwickler-bill-atkinson-mit-74-jahren-verstorben-2506-196954.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.golem.de/news/kopf-hinter-quickdraw-entwickler-bill-atkinson-mit-74-jahren-verstorben-2506-196954.html</a>

ThadHere's some stuff I wrote about HyperCard in 2017:<a href="https://corporate-sellout.com/2017/11/07/hypercard/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://corporate-sellout.com/2017/11/07/hypercard/</a><a href="https://brontosin.space/tags/HyperCard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HyperCard</a> <a href="https://brontosin.space/tags/BillAtkinson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BillAtkinson</a>

Chris HansonIn 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. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retrocomputing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BillAtkinson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BillAtkinson</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/QuickDraw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#QuickDraw</a>

ICMThank you Bill for all you’ve done. We’re running MacPaint today at the computer museum.<a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#apple</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/macintosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#macintosh</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/mac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#mac</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/billatkinson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#billatkinson</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/MacPaint" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MacPaint</a>

Barijaona RamaholimihasoReactions 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.<a href="https://youtu.be/1tQ5XwvjPmA?feature=shared" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/1tQ5XwvjPmA?feature=shared</a> <a href="https://mastodon.mg/tags/RIP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RIP</a> <a href="https://mastodon.mg/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Apple</a> <a href="https://mastodon.mg/tags/BillAtkinson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BillAtkinson</a> <a href="https://mastodon.mg/tags/QuickDraw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#QuickDraw</a> <a href="https://mastodon.mg/tags/InsideMacintosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#InsideMacintosh</a>

Fonts In UseRIP <a href="https://typo.social/tags/BillAtkinson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BillAtkinson</a> (1951–2025). During his time at <a href="https://typo.social/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Apple</a>, he was central to the development of the graphical user interface of the Lisa and later the Macintosh, and is best known for creating MacPaint, QuickDraw, and HyperCard. Atkinson is also credited for designing Venice, a chancery script bitmap font. Along with <a href="https://typo.social/tags/SusanKare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SusanKare</a>’s designs, it was one the “City” fonts that came with the original <a href="https://typo.social/tags/Macintosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Macintosh</a>. <a href="https://fontsinuse.com/type_designers/6337/bill-atkinson" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://fontsinuse.com/type_designers/6337/bill-atkinson</a>

Metin Seven 🎨Sad to read that Bill Atkinson has passed away. I was a Commodore kid in those early years of the digital revolution, but my all-time favorite pixel editor, the Amiga's Deluxe Paint ("DPaint"), was inspired by Bill's MacPaint.If you'd like to (re)try DPaint, there's a great resurrection of it in the shape of <a href="https://mastodon.social/@PyDPainter" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@PyDPainter</a> <a href="https://github.com/mriale/PyDPainter" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://github.com/mriale/PyDPainter</a><a href="https://graphics.social/tags/BillAtkinson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BillAtkinson</a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/RIP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RIP</a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#apple</a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/Mac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Mac</a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/macOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#macOS</a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/PixelArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PixelArt</a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/GameDev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GameDev</a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RetroComputing</a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/VintageComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#VintageComputing</a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/retro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retro</a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/commodore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#commodore</a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/amiga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#amiga</a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/1980s" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#1980s</a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#tech</a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#technology</a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/vintage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#vintage</a>

Oliver Kennedy<a href="https://discuss.systems/tags/Hypercard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Hypercard</a> was one of the formative influences on my development as a software developer and researcher. I'd done a bunch of programming in various flavors of Basic and C when I first started using it, but Hypercard was the first programming language that I used to solve real problems, ranging from writing up my HS Chemistry Lab reports, to cataloguing my coin collection, to developing a re-enactment of the climactic scene of the Merchant of Venice. I have fond memories of my high school Hypercard programming class (see the movie Hackers for a surprisingly realistic re-enactment), where we got to play with the school's scheduling system, written in hypercard (with fake data though)RIP <a href="https://discuss.systems/tags/BillAtkinson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BillAtkinson</a>. Your contributions to our lives will ripple throughout time.

Geoff DuncanSo, Bill Atkinson is probably the reason I stuck with computers, and definitely the reason I wound up on Macs. I'd done bits of programming before I stumbled across HyperCard (BASIC, 6502 Assembler, Pascal, shell scripting, blah blah blah—even smidgens of FORTRAN and COBOL) but it was always with disinterest: I just wanted to do a thing, and if I had to program to do it…sigh, *fine.* I couldn't wait to put the task behind me. But HyperCard…HyperCard made programming accessible and fun. And while HyperCard (and HyperTalk) had distinct limitations and shortcomings, it was amazing what it could be pushed to do—and I enjoyed doing it, which is something I cannot say of *any* development environment I've worked with since.I worked on games and educational titles built in HyperCard, and I created heaps of specialty and in-house systems (some of which were running until very recently). For years I ran a specialized web crawler that was (yep) built in HyperCard. Large parts of the backend for TidBITs were glued together with HyperCard. And no, none of this was rock solid, but it was very rare that HyperCard was the piece that failed.Of course, Bill Atkinson's contributions to the Mac, to computing, and the world were much larger than HyperCard. He was a giant, and I'm privileged to have stood on a tiny portion of one of his shoulders. Thank you.<a href="https://mindly.social/tags/billatkinson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#billatkinson</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/hypercard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#hypercard</a>

Hank G ☑️On Bill Atkinson I only yesterday learned about the time he accidentally showed the world Douglas Adams's home address while demoing HyperCard on The Computer Chronicles show. He was apparently using his own personal database for the demo. Thank you Retro Computing Rountable Podcast :). <a href="https://friendica.myportal.social/search?tag=BillAtkinson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BillAtkinson</a> <a href="https://friendica.myportal.social/search?tag=ComputerHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ComputerHistory</a> <a href="https://not.withoutdistractions.com/blog/2024/11/03/bill-atkinson-doxxed-douglas-adams-in-1987" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">not.withoutdistractions.com/bl…</a>

Dan BricklinIt is so moving to watch a high point of the life of someone who changed the world in a way that enriched the lives of so many. The audience reaction (of techies who know they are watching an historic milestone) lets you feel it. <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/billatkinson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#billatkinson</a>

Telmo 🦕The genius behind MacPaint, HyperCard, and so many other groundbreaking creations has left us. I like to think that Bill Atkinson is now in a better place—one where HyperCard was never discontinued, and its legacy lives on, evolving as it always should have.<a href="https://masto.pt/tags/billatkinson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#billatkinson</a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/macintosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#macintosh</a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/hypercard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#hypercard</a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/macpaint" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#macpaint</a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retrocomputing</a>

☮ ♥ ♬ 🧑‍💻<a href="https://mastodon.social/@dukope" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@dukope</a> “The <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Macintosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Macintosh</a> User Interface wasn't designed all at once; it was actually the result of almost five years of experimentation and development at <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Apple</a>, starting with graphics routines that <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/BillAtkinson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BillAtkinson</a> began writing for Lisa in late 1978.It's a shame that these tend to be lost to history, since there is a lot that we can learn from them. main developer of the user interface, Bill Atkinson, was an avid, lifelong photographer, and he had the foresight to document the incremental development of the Lisa User Interface (which more or less became the Mac UI after a few tweaks) with a series of photographs. He kept a <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Polaroid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Polaroid</a> camera by his computer, and took a snapshot each time the user interface reached a new milestone, … they offer a fascinating, behind the scenes glimpse of how the Mac's breakthrough user interface was crafted.” — Andy Hertzfeld<a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#apple</a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/LISA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LISA</a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/UI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UI</a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/AndyHertzfeld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AndyHertzfeld</a> <<a href="https://www.folklore.org/Busy_Being_Born.html?sort=title" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.folklore.org/Busy_Being_Born.html?sort=title</a>>

John BalestrieriOh wow, I forgot I shared "Waterlogue 0.1 Alpha" with Bill Atkinson and he sent me back some postcards from his postcard app. So supportive! <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/BillAtkinson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BillAtkinson</a>

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