> "I was lamenting how much a paint program cost ? the cheapest was
> [PixelPaint][1] at $499," says Williams. "I asked Timmer how long it
> would take him to whip up a cheesy little paint program. He said,
> 'About two weeks'."
>
> According to Williams, Cotter presented him with "a good prototype"
> of Color MacCheese just two weeks later. "We tried to get other
> companies to sell it," he recalls. "But they all wanted to charge
> $500 bucks, because it was supposed to compete with PixelPaint. The
> whole concept of that pissed us off, so we started Delta Tao to sell
> it cheap. We took it to Macworld Expo, selling our floppies in hand-
> painted boxes ? we couldn't afford box printing ? and we sold about
> 800 units at $49 each in four days."
>
> "We had the cheesiest booth at the show, and we had a blast," he
> adds. "With that money, we started the company ? though we always
> wanted to do games."
>
> ? [Gamasutra interview with Joe Williams][2]

See also: [Zeus][3]

Compatibility
Architecture: 68k PPC

  [1]: http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/pixelpaint-21
  [2]: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/102372/Playing_Catch_Up_Spaceward_Hos_Joe_Williams.php
  [3]: http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/zeus

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