Re: early Apple II GUIs (was GEOS)

[Martin Doherty <martin.doherty@undisclosed.com>]

Mitchell Spector wrote:

> [snip]
>    There were far better GUI programs for the 8-bit Apple II: MouseDesk
> (aka Apple II Desktop) was a nice rendition of the Finder, MultiScribe 
> was like MacWrite, MousePaint like MacPaint (or if you wanted color,
> there was 816/Paint or DazzleDraw), Publish-It! did page layout,
> MouseCalc spreadsheet, ProTERM 3 telecommunications (it was
> completely in Mousetext, but done excellently) just to name a few. 
> And of course if you had an Apple IIGS, GEOS was of absolutely no 
> value--even the earliest System Software and native applications 
> blew it away.
>
> Mitchell Spector
>  
I'm very interested in these early GUIs, but so far the only one I've 
laid my hands on is MousePaint (that was an easy victory - it came on a 
floppy with my mouse).  Is anyone aware of these little gems existing in 
any of the archive sites?

So ProTerm was a MouseText GUI?  I've always wondered how good a UI 
could be built using those characters.  As a concept it seems a far more 
natural and appropriate technique for a 1MHz 8-bitter versus bitmap 
graphics.

One of my unrealized project ideas is a Pascal library of routines to 
implement a MouseText UI.

Martin