A MacWrite alpha version 1.5 is not inconsistent with a later release version 1.0, so that doesn't mean anything. It just shows how Wigginton numbered his builds. Atkinson and Apple were using a different system at that time. [i've always wondered what they planned to do if the pre-release builds reached 0.99 -- would they then go to 0.991, and so on?]
Someone needs to check what versions of MW/MP are on the Tour disk that came with the pre-May 1984 software bundle. I know the System file was version 0.85, but I forget the Finder information. What is the Finder information on your disk?

My instinct is that your disk was somehow cobbled from the first Tour disk, but I don't know if that is possible to do. If it is not possible, then you may have a significant bit of ephemera -- a pre-release Macintosh test disk. Can you show us the label on the disk?

What do you see when you select the disk itself in the Finder and do Get Info?

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How would I go about finding out more Finder information? When I go to the about screen, it says "Finder 1.0 (4 Dec 83)". If I do a get info on it, it says "Created: Wednesday, 07 December, 1983" and "Modified: Thursday, 08 December, 1983".

Here's what the disk looks like. It's super sketchy and fake looking. It looks like something someone just through together to create attention, which I guess it did for me ha. I have no doubt that the disk itself is insignificant and is most likely someones own personal disk (it's blue) and label (as I see no references to Apple). I'm more interested in these application versions that are on the disk, and if they have any significance. I've just never seen these versions of MacWrite and MacPaint on the internet for download let alone even mentioned. I was just wanting to have some light shed on them.



If I do a get info on the Disk, I get "Created: Wednesday, 07 December, 1983" and "Modified Friday, 01 January, 1904".

In the greater scheme of things, none of this really matters. The whole purpose of searching out "lost" or "previously unknown" versions of MacPaint is to find something no one has seen before. But you won't find anything shockingly different from between those earliest of versions..

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I never meant to imply that there was something special or important to these versions. I was checking to see if they were something commonly floating around the community. Or to see if maybe they were possibly of interest to anyone else. I never saw any reference to them before on the internet, hence my post.

Thanks.