3) An oral history of KidPix by Craig Hickman, creator of the iconic children's bitmap drawing program which was published by Broderbund in 1991
http://red-green-blue.com/kid-pix-the-early-years
(By the way, you can play with a JS/html version of KidPix on the web here: https://kidpix.app/)
#oralhistory #nineties #retro #nostalgia #kidpix
@danvanmoll Aweee yes.. and then you would see the "Happy Mac", I would double click on "Macintosh HD", head to the games folder and start building my new city in #SimCity. #KidPix was also right up there as well.
Wonderful Kid Pix artwork I found awhile back on an Apple Macintosh PowerBook 145
They also still love Kid Pix.
#retro #classicmacos #kidpix #broderbund #imacg4
"how long can i follow the trail of pixels before i end up where i started again?"
she has a whole section about her kidpix artwork here:
https://paupowpow.neocities.org/kidpix.html
#kidpix is also the first piece of software I specifically remember making art with, though I think we had MacPaint much earlier (maybe @memexikon remembers better)