ClipShop ("Ye Olde ClipShoppe") is dedicated to the SoftWare Developers who created so much fun and enjoyment for so many of us from the early days until now.

They gave us clipart and desktop publishing, and most importantly they gave us something tangible to do with our home computer and printer, and even the youngest among us had a feeling of accomplishment when we showed-off our printouts to each other. It has been a high quality "adventure" for everyone.

Some parts of ClipShop are dedicated to individuals or groups in recognition of their particular contributions. They are listed below.

The [F10] Export Feature
is dedicated to Don Joyce (of Negativland/Over The Edge fame), who created "Probably the best feature of PrintMaster... the artwork". Since Don's computer is "an ancient Mac Centris 610" and he probably can't run ClipShop, it is appropriate that the Export feature is dedicated to him (since exporting to a standard image format is the only way Mac users like Don can enjoy the old IBM Clip Art).

Don also contributed kind words and "A Computer Story" for this helpfile. His story is included at the end of "The PrintMaster Saga".

Don's story about software confining and warping artistic expression illustrates a view shared by many artists and designers. Sadly, bionic artists, who may not have been much good as real artists (Including ClipShop's Author) seem quite abundant these days...

Visit Don's website with friends and family for inspiring fun and great links at:

http://www.negativland.com

ClipShop's Copy Commands are dedicated to the PrintMaster programmers, including MacDuff Hughes, whose copying made history, and Peter MacLeod, who helped him. This seems appropriate.

ClipShop's Help File is dedicated to another former Unison World Fellow, Michael Olivier. Since the purpose of a Help File is to help and to communicate, it was appropriate to assign this dedication to Michael, who helpfully was still in touch with other former Unison Fellows after all these years.

It doesn't matter what caption you use, the picture is still the same...

ClipShop's Change Description of ClipArt is dedicated to all the folks at TLC (The Learning Company) and to the Teams at BroderBund and MindScape who have made sure that The Print Shop and PrintMaster have changed to stay with the times. Also with all the name changing that has gone-on over at TLC this dedication seems appropriate.

ClipShop's Load Command is dedicated to the respective parent company of the image format and to their people.

ClipShop's Save Command is dedicated to Broderbund's Early Print Shop Development Team, including David Balsam, Marty Kahn, who made history and invented an industry, and Don Williams who brought PrintShop to the IBM on behalf of BroderBund.

ClipShop's Delete Command is dedicated to Sierra, who merged with Pixellite.

The Entire ClipShop Application is dedicated to "having fun", and to all the PrintShop, Print Master, and Print Partner users out there, past, present, and future.

"I am telling the forgotten history of this obsolete clipart just for fun. All traces of this era have basically vanished from the Earth, so I want to chronicle what I remember before I forget too..." - Bill Buckels 1999


© CopyLeft Bill Buckels 1999
All Rights Reversed.