Stone Tools: a 8/16-bit productivity software blog

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Stone Tools: Exploring retro productivity software from the 8/16-bit era. No games, just work.

Spotted this on today's This Week in Retro podcast, which is generally very games-focused. The first article is up now, cataloguing a comprehensive history of Deluxe Paint, which, of course, was the raster art program prior to Photoshop achieving sentience; Doom, Quake, and Duke Nukem 3D all owe their art to Deluxe Paint (albeit on the PC rather than the Amiga as showcased here. From what I know the PC version of DPaint was basically an exclave of the Amiga user experience, including the hold-right-mouse-button-to-access-menu-bar shenanigans. Even on SunOS, there was a clone, Caldera Graffiti, which is blatantly still using Workbench-style borders and fonts from its Amiga ancestor TVPaint.)

Here's hoping the blog covers some Mac software that got NeXT ports in future posts—there's no shortage of such programs.