Uhhh yeah. 3.x's Paintbrush app was based on this old thing called PC paintbrush. In Windows 95 they overhauled it from scratch resulting in the Paint we have today.
The Paint application from Windows 3.11 was completely different from the Windows 95 paint application!
When I compared the two, I got that result above. ^
What above? I think you forgot to link the image. If you post it, I'll merge your posts.
Also, the 3.11 Paintbrush application was basically a rebranded version of PC Paintbrush (amicorrect?) where the 95 version was basically a completely rewritten application.
The original Zsoft PC Paintbrush for Windows was a port of their popular DOS version to Windows 1 and later Windows 2.
Microsoft incorporated that, with few changes, in to Windows 3.0.
The 9x version was heavily re-written to make use of the MSVC runtime.
Then SoftKey bought out ZSoft, and released their own "PC Paintbrush for Windows" , which had little in common with either.
Interestingly, the ZSoft HQ used to be right up the street from where I live now.
The Paint application from Windows 3.11 was completely different from the Windows 95 paint application!
When I compared the two, I got that result above. ^
What above? I think you forgot to link the image. If you post it, I'll merge your posts.
Also, the 3.11 Paintbrush application was basically a rebranded version of PC Paintbrush (amicorrect?) where the 95 version was basically a completely rewritten application.
I didn't forget the image. I was pointing to the text above that text.
Windows 3.11's paintbrush is the same as Windows 1's and 2's Paintbrush, so I'd call it The Windows 1-3.11 Paint application if I were you. Just saying.
Windows 3.11's paintbrush is the same as Windows 1's and 2's Paintbrush, so I'd call it The Windows 1-3.11 Paint application if I were you. Just saying.
But you're ever, ever so wrong. 1 and 2 came with a black-and-white only Paint application that was nowhere near reminisent of the one shipped in 3.0 and beyond. It also uses a different file format than today's modern BMP/DIB images if I recall.
But you're ever, ever so wrong. 1 and 2 came with a black-and-white only Paint application that was nowhere near reminisent of the one shipped in 3.0 and beyond. It also uses a different file format than today's modern BMP/DIB images if I recall.
You are right, I think windows paint used the .pic format.
More to the point, the "Windows Paint" program that shipped with Windows 1 and Windows 2 is not even vaguely related to the one produced by ZSoft for Windows 3. (Even though I think I have read accounts to the contrary)
Actually, cracking open the Windows 1.01 paint program shows the string "Microsoft Paint (c) 1985 Microsoft Corp. by Dan McCabe, et al".
ZSoft PC Paintbrush for Windows was a commercial application that you would buy separately. ZSoft even advertised it in magazines, but I think most people preferred the DOS version.
Microsoft obviously liked ZSoft's Windows version, as they included it on a mouse driver disk with some Windows 2 mouse bundles, and then it wound up in Windows 3.0. More commonly, they also licensed ZSoft PC Paintbrush for DOS with their DOS mouse software rebranded as Microsoft Paintbrush for DOS.
ZSoft PC Paintbrush is also unrelated to Mouse System's PC Paint, but the confusion is understandable because they were all visibly clones of MacPaint.
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Also, the 3.11 Paintbrush application was basically a rebranded version of PC Paintbrush (amicorrect?) where the 95 version was basically a completely rewritten application.
Microsoft incorporated that, with few changes, in to Windows 3.0.
The 9x version was heavily re-written to make use of the MSVC runtime.
Then SoftKey bought out ZSoft, and released their own "PC Paintbrush for Windows" , which had little in common with either.
Interestingly, the ZSoft HQ used to be right up the street from where I live now.
I didn't forget the image. I was pointing to the text above that text.
But you're ever, ever so wrong. 1 and 2 came with a black-and-white only Paint application that was nowhere near reminisent of the one shipped in 3.0 and beyond. It also uses a different file format than today's modern BMP/DIB images if I recall.
Actually, cracking open the Windows 1.01 paint program shows the string "Microsoft Paint (c) 1985 Microsoft Corp. by Dan McCabe, et al".
ZSoft PC Paintbrush for Windows was a commercial application that you would buy separately. ZSoft even advertised it in magazines, but I think most people preferred the DOS version.
Microsoft obviously liked ZSoft's Windows version, as they included it on a mouse driver disk with some Windows 2 mouse bundles, and then it wound up in Windows 3.0. More commonly, they also licensed ZSoft PC Paintbrush for DOS with their DOS mouse software rebranded as Microsoft Paintbrush for DOS.
ZSoft PC Paintbrush is also unrelated to Mouse System's PC Paint, but the confusion is understandable because they were all visibly clones of MacPaint.