[bluedog]

Harvard Graphics used to be the business publication program back in the pre-Windows days (DOS and early Windows 3.11).

Does anyone remember other older design applications they used? Harvard Graphics used to be the best thing available if you had a color video card.

Obviously that was a PC app. Other early mac applications you remember? For nostalgia's sake I'd like to hear what anyone remembers using. I've been collecting old, MacSE and MacClassics and it would be fun to have the old software running on them.

I remember a drawing app that combined vector and raster as two separate layers, it had plugin features that were called 'pouches' if I remember correctly. Anyone remember this? Perhaps it was done by silicon beach software? Oh, dang I looked it up. On wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Beach_Software

Any oddballs or forgotten software you can remember? Thanks!

[andi*pandi]

I did a surprising number of flyers and table tents in MacDraw and SuperPaint. Then Pagemaker 3.0.

[th3ph17]

how about HyperCard for games and slideshows?

on the PC, Animator Pro [dos] was an amazing paint and animation software [so what if it was only 256 colors]....Lumina? Tablet based, hardware dongle and a thousand menus? What was that Amiga paint program? Amiga Paint?

I actually started off on the Atari ST system, programs like Degas and Neochrome.

[art_director]

Page Maker
Aldus Freehand
Mac Paint

This is making my brain hurt. Maybe it's the rubylith I smell.

[godzookie2k]

[bluedog]

Rubylith smell? I don't smell anything?

I did pasteups with Pagemaker (can't recall the version but about 4.0) while doing a school newspaper. Ah, those were the days of analog/digital convergence.

Today its all about digital this, and digital that. Reminds me of when CDs used to have the ADD or DDD designation of whether the recording was *all digital* or from an analog master recording.

Amiga for animation had the Disney Animation Studio and Deluxe Paint IV.

If anyone is interested for nostalgia's sake, you can get emulators up and running in OSX (Basilik II, Sheepshaver, and vMac). And then run your old software.

Here are a few links:
Basilisk II - http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/11613
Sheepshaver - http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/20615

Some links to classic old mac software:
http://www.jagshouse.com/classicsoftware.html
http://hyperarchive.lcs.mit.edu/HyperArchive.html
http://www.pure-mac.com/olden.html

Apple has downloads to their old system 7 discs that can be used to make bootable systems in these emulators.

Its pretty astounding what's transpired in Photoshop from 2.5 to today. No layers, just channel support for effects (try doing a drop shadow with that now!? I don't even remember how).

[godzookie2k]

I have a zip of photoshop 1.0 at home and amazingly it still runs fine via classic.

[art_director]

OH MY GOD, that disk is hilarious!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[godzookie2k]

photoshop 1.0 (.sit 395k)

[th3ph17]

a friend of mine has the photoshop 4 tool bar tattooed on his arm....always told him it was going to look dated after a while.

pre-layers photoshop was definately a different program. I just found a bunch of work on a CD, backed up from an old 2gig drive, that had floppies loaded onto it. Embarassingly cheesy photoshop 1.5 and 2 "art". Don't know what i was thinking. Eventually i'm going to put a lot of it up online, sort of a decade+ retrospective gallery.

kids these days...just don't know how good they had it. Why, back in my day if photoshop crashed you had to walk 10 miles through a blizzard just to reboot the computer.

[andi*pandi]

I have a bunch of old macpaint art I'd actually like to see again...

[designbc]

Remember the times of Ventura Publisher?