Re: Early Apple II paint programs? KDS 5000 :-)

["squish" <squish@classicfm.net>]

> Chris Williams wrote in message <7vr9c6$64r$1@nnrp1.deja.com>...
> I'm working on a history of computer graphics, and I'm trying to
> make sure that no innovative platform is slighted.
> On Prof. Wayne Carlson's Computer Graphics timeline at:
> http://www.cgrg.ohio-state.edu/~waynec/history/timeline.html

Dunno if CAD packages count here, but I wrote one in 1981 / 82
called 'KDS 5000', for designing and costing kitchens :-)

It used its own DOS, with a modified RWTS driver, and the 3D
perspective stuff used 32-bit binary multiplication (coded in 6502
assembler) and 4*4 matrices to do the object--world--viewport mapping.

The shape database used indexed-sequential files to hold the
virtual plot instructions (vectors), mapped thru the matrix pipeline
to either the screen (in hires monochrome mode) or a Watanabe
flat-bed plotter using the Aristocard (a printer card I designed for
a UK Apple dealer in 1981).

Still got a Europlus up in the loft (haven't booted it up for years though)

S q u i s h