GLPaint
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GLpaint was an improved version of PCPaint
and Pictor Paint
, and was the last in a series of paint programs that descended from the first IBM PC-based mouse driven GUI
paint program (PCPaint
). All three were written by John Bridges.
By 1994, GRASP development had stopped and so had development of Pictor Paint. John Bridges terminated his GRASP publishing contract with Paul Mace Software, and went off to create GLPro
(the next generation of GRASP) with Gmedia, a division of IMS Communications Ltd.
In 1995, GLpaint was released.
Bundled with GLPro
, GLpaint saved its files in a compressed format with the file extension PIC
, which was the same format used by PCPaint
and Pictor Paint
.
By 1998 version 7.0 provided support for TrueColor images and the Pictor PIC format was expanded to handles these.
GLPro was moved into a separate company, GMedia, in early 2000, which closed their doors in February 2001 just as the native Macintosh and Linux
support was entering public beta testing. Bridges is no longer involved in its development, and as of February 2002 is working on a new multimedia authoring system called AfterGRASP designed to be backwards compatible with GLPro with less emphasis on built-in media playback support.
John Bridges has not announced any plans to create a successor to GLpaint, and the Pictor PIC file format has all but vanished. IMS Communications Ltd is still around.
PCPaint
PCPaint was the first IBM PC-based mouse driven GUI paint program . It was developed by John Bridges and Doug Wolfgram.The hardware manufacturer Mouse Systems bundled PCPaint with millions of computer mice that they sold, making PCPaint also the best-selling MS-DOS-based paint program of the late...
and Pictor Paint
Pictor Paint
Pictor Paint was an improved version of PCPaint, the first IBM PC-based mouse driven GUI paint program. It was written by John Bridges, the primary author of PCPaint, and bundled with GRASP GRaphical System for Presentation also written by John Bridges...
, and was the last in a series of paint programs that descended from the first IBM PC-based mouse driven GUI
Gui
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paint program (PCPaint
PCPaint
PCPaint was the first IBM PC-based mouse driven GUI paint program . It was developed by John Bridges and Doug Wolfgram.The hardware manufacturer Mouse Systems bundled PCPaint with millions of computer mice that they sold, making PCPaint also the best-selling MS-DOS-based paint program of the late...
). All three were written by John Bridges.
By 1994, GRASP development had stopped and so had development of Pictor Paint. John Bridges terminated his GRASP publishing contract with Paul Mace Software, and went off to create GLPro
GLPro
GLPro is a multimedia authoring application for MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows. GLPro is a contraction of Graphics Language Professional, and was written by John Bridges. GLPro was originally a MS-DOS program released in 1995, written as successor to GRASP, also written by Bridges and marketed by...
(the next generation of GRASP) with Gmedia, a division of IMS Communications Ltd.
In 1995, GLpaint was released.
Bundled with GLPro
GLPro
GLPro is a multimedia authoring application for MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows. GLPro is a contraction of Graphics Language Professional, and was written by John Bridges. GLPro was originally a MS-DOS program released in 1995, written as successor to GRASP, also written by Bridges and marketed by...
, GLpaint saved its files in a compressed format with the file extension PIC
PICtor PIC image format
PICtor is an image file format developed by John Bridges, the principal author of PCPaint, the first Paintbrush program for the PC. It was also the native file format for Pictor Paint and GRASP and became the first widely accepted DOS imaging standard.-Typical file format:The PICtor format is a...
, which was the same format used by PCPaint
PCPaint
PCPaint was the first IBM PC-based mouse driven GUI paint program . It was developed by John Bridges and Doug Wolfgram.The hardware manufacturer Mouse Systems bundled PCPaint with millions of computer mice that they sold, making PCPaint also the best-selling MS-DOS-based paint program of the late...
and Pictor Paint
Pictor Paint
Pictor Paint was an improved version of PCPaint, the first IBM PC-based mouse driven GUI paint program. It was written by John Bridges, the primary author of PCPaint, and bundled with GRASP GRaphical System for Presentation also written by John Bridges...
.
By 1998 version 7.0 provided support for TrueColor images and the Pictor PIC format was expanded to handles these.
GLPro was moved into a separate company, GMedia, in early 2000, which closed their doors in February 2001 just as the native Macintosh and Linux
Linux
Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...
support was entering public beta testing. Bridges is no longer involved in its development, and as of February 2002 is working on a new multimedia authoring system called AfterGRASP designed to be backwards compatible with GLPro with less emphasis on built-in media playback support.
John Bridges has not announced any plans to create a successor to GLpaint, and the Pictor PIC file format has all but vanished. IMS Communications Ltd is still around.