[thought_alarm]

The closest modern relative to MacPaint is probably the paint program in ClarisWorks/AppleWorks, which was ported to Carbon and runs on OS X.

AppleWorks was bundled with all new Mac hardware up until the switch from PPC to Intel in 2006; I still have my copy that came with my iBook G4, still works in Snow Leopard, still reads files created with the original 128k MacPaint. (And my iBook G4 ran MacPaint v2.0, circa 1987, via the Classic VM.)

These days, there are all sorts of great indie and open source paint programs available:

- Paintbrush: http://paintbrush.sourceforge.net/

- Pixelmator: http://www.pixelmator.com/

- Seashore: http://seashore.sourceforge.net/The_Seashore_Project/About.h...

- Skitch: http://skitch.com/

- Omni Graffle: http://www.omnigroup.com/products/omnigraffle/

[cubicle67]

- Acorn: http://flyingmeat.com/acorn/