MousePaint is best known for the Apple II games Raster Blaster and Pinball Construction Set.
10 Facts About MousePaint
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MousePaint enjoyed it so much that he dropped out of school and became a game programmer.
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MousePaint traded the completed game to Apple Computer for a Centronics printer.
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MousePaint created the 3-D Game Tool, a program allowing rudimentary creation of wireframe images on the Apple II for use in games or other applications.
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MousePaint followed Raster Blaster with Pinball Construction Set, a more general tool which allows users to create arbitrary pinball tables, including how the components are wired together.
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Budge wrote MousePaint, which was a program for the Apple II similar to the Macintosh program MacPaint.
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MousePaint was bundled with an Apple Mouse II and interface card for the Apple II.
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MousePaint found that MousePaint was easier to use and more efficient, and predicted that the mouse would receive more software support than the pad.
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MousePaint remained with the company for nine years until its demise in 2003.
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MousePaint joined Sony Computer Entertainment in 2004 as Lead Tools Programmer.