MacPaint® 2.0 is for creating pictures. It’s for professional artists, people who enjoy drawing, business people who need to spruce up reports with illustrations — even people who think they have no artistic skills. IPs for people who love to make pictures and anyone who needs an easy-to-use tool to sketch out ideas and plans.
With MacPaint, you can
- draw straight lines and round circles and create precise shapes and intricate patterns with ease
- add patterns to your pictures by “painting” with several sizes and shapes of brushes that you never have to clean
- select any part of a picture and move, duplicate, rotate, flip, stretch, shrink, or invert it
- add text to a picture in a variety of fonts, font sizes, and font styles
- move in for close-up views of a picture — as if you had a magnifying glass — so you can do detail work
- enjoy the freedom to experiment, try new effects, undo what you don’t like, create several versions of an idea, combine images from several different sources, and finally, put your work on paper when it’s just right
- create or edit pictures that you can “paste” into documents created with word processing or page-layout programs
As you create pictures with MacPaint, you may find MacPaint complements the artist in you by giving you an easy-to-use tool that produces good-looking results.
CLARIS Corporation. (1987). Claris MacPaint. Mountain View, CA. (pg. xiii).
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MacPaint 1.0, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 2.0 (virus clean) / DSK image
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MacPaint v1.5 + manual + packaging cover / Zipped
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MacPaint v1.3 + QuickDraw source code / compressed w/ Stuffit
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MacPaint v2.0 / BinHex'd, use Stuffit Expander
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Claris MacPaint v2.1 FRENCH / DSK image, zipped
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Mac Paint v. 1.0 - 1.5 - 2.1 in ITALIAN / compressed w/ Stuffit
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Version 1.5 (1985) German / BinHex'd, use Stuffit Expander
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MacPaint 1.0, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 2.0 / DiskCopy image
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Architecture 
 Motorola 68K
System Requirements 
From Mac OS 1.0
up to Mac OS 7.6
Compatibility notes 
- MacPaint 2.0 Requirements
- Macintosh 512Ke
- Two 800K floppy disk drives or hard disk drive
Architecture: 68K
Mac OS 1.x - Mac OS 7.x
Emulating this? It could probably run under: Mini vMac
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