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ELECTRONIC ART. MacPaint, which works on the Apple Macintosh, seems to have opened up a new artistic world on personal computers. Using only the Mac's palm-size mouse controller, the program gave chartmakers and would-be Picassos easy access to a variety of artist's tools, from an electronic paintbrush with variable-size brushstrokes to a computer paint can that pours out an infinite variety of patterns and shades. There is now a quiverful of MacPaint imitations that run on other machines, including Apple's MousePaint ($100) and Broderbund's DazzleDraw ($50) for the Apple II, Mouse Systems...
...hacking in an industry increasingly dominated by marketers and venture capitalists. Everyone present seemed to agree that commercialism had changed the nature of computing. What was less clear was what the new rules for hacking ought to be. Said Bill Atkinson, author of a flashy new program called MacPaint: "The question is, how do you spread excitement around...