HyperCard was one of the most truly innovative software products of all time and is comparable to software like UNIX and BSD in influence. Even the web, at least as we know it today, probably wouldn’t exist without HyperCard.
SuperCard exists as a still-popular commercial derivative, and there are various open-source projects like Stacksmith.
As a HyperCard kid myself, I’m still quite fond of it, even though I now recognize it as a dumbed-down (or more charitably, slimmed-down) Smalltalk 80 replica.
This is an interesting project, but if you want to play around with HyperCard you don’t have to wait for ViperCard. Archive.org has done a lot recently for in-browser emulation of the early Macintosh system, and centralized many existing archives of old HyperCard stacks as well.
It seems to be still under active development, which is great. There’s a few little quirks that I got used to in HyperCard that seem to be missing here (command-click button creation is one I noticed right away). Would be nice to have an in-app feedback tool, because the Google Group doesn’t feel like the right place to do it.
I was working on a HyperCard stack parser for a few evenings but got stalled when it came time to build a WOBA decompressor to get at the BMAP data. Might still go back to that…
Awesome!
HyperCard was one of the most truly innovative software products of all time and is comparable to software like UNIX and BSD in influence. Even the web, at least as we know it today, probably wouldn’t exist without HyperCard.
SuperCard exists as a still-popular commercial derivative, and there are various open-source projects like Stacksmith.
As a HyperCard kid myself, I’m still quite fond of it, even though I now recognize it as a dumbed-down (or more charitably, slimmed-down) Smalltalk 80 replica.
This is an interesting project, but if you want to play around with HyperCard you don’t have to wait for ViperCard. Archive.org has done a lot recently for in-browser emulation of the early Macintosh system, and centralized many existing archives of old HyperCard stacks as well.
It would be very cool to see a ~1993 HyperCard and not just ~1987 - and Myst.
It seems to be still under active development, which is great. There’s a few little quirks that I got used to in HyperCard that seem to be missing here (command-click button creation is one I noticed right away). Would be nice to have an in-app feedback tool, because the Google Group doesn’t feel like the right place to do it.
I was working on a HyperCard stack parser for a few evenings but got stalled when it came time to build a WOBA decompressor to get at the BMAP data. Might still go back to that…