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SuperPaint

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Category:	Visual Arts & Graphics
Year released:	1987
Author:	Silicon Beach Software
Publisher:	Silicon Beach Software Aldus

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superpaint-1-3.sit (4.87 MB)
For System 6.x - Mac OS 8 - 8.1

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SuperPaint_2.0a_DC42.sit_.hqx (1.61 MB)
For System 6.x - Mac OS 8 - 8.1

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superpaintv1.1_manual.pdf
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SuperPaint_1.1_Manual_OCR_Searchable_version.pdf
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superpaint_2.0_quick_reference_card_OCR_searchable.pdf
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SuperPaint-35-Quick-Ref-Card-OCR.pdf

Emulation
This app works with: Basilisk II, Mini vMac Mini vMac II

SuperPaint, with its fusion of paint and draw layers, became a popular tool for the working graphic artist in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Silicon Beach was quick to release version 2.0 in 1988, but SuperPaint would have to wait 4 years before it got its colors. Version 3.0 was published in 1992, under the Aldus banner.

The initial release included a SuperPaint document containing ads for Silicon Beach's games, which so outraged the New York Times' reviewer that he spent several paragraphs railing against this "landmark invasion of software users' privacy".

The first download is an archive containing: Silicon Beach SuperPaint 1.0, SuperPaint 1.1, SuperPaint 2.0, and Aldus SuperPaint 3.5.

The second download is a BinHexed StuffIt 1.5.1 archive containing clean Disk Copy 4.2 images of the 2 800K disks that came in the SuperPaint 2.0 package.
Imaged from genuine program disks using Disk Copy 4.2 on a IIci running System 6.0.4, Stuffed and BinHexed with StuffIt 1.5.1.

Checksum and DL filename:
MD5 checksum: 84120c9f7c30457bb6789f77add7c734 *superpaint-1-3.sit

MD5 checksum: b9adfcd30c337b1f5e6480254a9ba9ee *SuperPaint_2.0a_DC42.sit.hqx

See also: Aldus SuperPaint 3.5

Compatibility
Architecture: 68k

Comments

by MikeTomTom - 2019, July 8 - 12:28am

Thanks for the OCR'd update to the manual, gingerbeardman. It's excellent.

by gingerbeardman - 2019, July 7 - 10:33pm

A dozen or so SuperPaint plugins here: http://web.tiscali.it/matteovarisco/Static/mieiprogrammi_ing.htm

by gingerbeardman - 2019, July 6 - 3:23pm

Thanks for the awesome manual scan! I just run it through OCR in Adobe Acrobat to produce a searchable version that you can also copy and paste text from. I also did the same with the SuperPaint 2.0 Quick Reference Card I found in the FTP but that was not attached to this page. Enjoy!

by LimeiBook86 - 2019, March 21 - 5:57am

Just added a scan of the SuperPaint 2.0 box (front and back), I have the manual too, but it's too much to scan.

by MikeTomTom - 2016, January 9 - 12:23am

@miku2007: "SuperPaint_2.0a_DC42.sit_.hqx" - An excellent, pristine addition to this archive. Thank you.

by MikeTomTom - 2014, March 6 - 8:23pm

@Gaël: Thank you for the scan you have done of this manual. It is very well executed and is an excellent addition.

by Gael_FR - 2014, March 5 - 8:10pm

Added the scanned manual of SuperPaint v1.1.
Enjoy !
Gaël

by WalMart 68k - 2012, May 1 - 2:57pm

These may be the better versions of SuperPaint compared to what I had uploaded. I remember a version of it that allowed brushes for mirror lines and some really cool patterns resulted. In fact I used an iMac G3 DV and yes...Bondy Blue (450MHz) I had bought at my local GoodWill Store. Got SuperPaint from this site and used version 3.0. I highly recommend Version 3.0 as it includes a better choice of thing to do...interface may be more confusing, but it is a great tool once you figure out how to use it.

by MikeTomTom - 2012, January 1 - 4:59am

I've replaced the virus infected archive with a (Disinfectant) clean version. Double-checked with Virex 6.1 before re-uploading.

by lnmseb - 2011, December 31 - 9:45pm

This file is infected with nVIR A and MBDF A/B viruses.