Adobe Photoshop 1.0.7

@turtlecroc

Huh, cool, except it crashes OS9.

Why am I not surprised? The same year this was released (1990), the hottest most powerful Mac on the planet (if you were rich enough to be able to afford it, at the time), was the IIfx. It shipped with System Software version 6.0.5 and had a 68030 CPU running at a blistering 40MHz... RISC architecture was only just being openly discussed as a future direction in magazines like BYTE. The PPC was still a few years off and Mac OS 7.0 (let alone tru' 8 then thru' 9) not yet ready for prime time.

This is ancient, ground-breaking software. Best left to emulators, or better still, much older original Macs and Mac OS's if you are able to...

Photoshop vers. 5 to 7 runs fine on Mac OS 9x. Versions 3 & 4 also run OK, but 5 and beyond are Appearance Manager aware (optimized to run on 8.0 or later).

Photoshop 1.0.7 will happily run on a Mini vMac or Mac Plus in one bit color. Its output can print as full 24 bit color from that vMac or Plus. No mean feat.

This is a great little painting app. Wish they'd had layers back in those days, but still a fun relic that is compatible with quite a few image formats still used today!

Original Download Address:
http://www.grenier-du-mac.net/fiches/applications/photoshop.htm

This site is in French, but the downloaded file is in English then.
Klick on the little 'Télécharger' (in green letters) and get the .sit-file. This app works in a 'Classic' environment with 'Tiger' 11 and is tested with Systems 7.5, 8.6 and 9.1 as well.