Hypercard on the Archive (2017)

https://blog.archive.org/2017/08/11/hypercard-on-the-archive-celebrating-30-years-of-hypercard/

by tta • 4 years ago

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The Internet Archive lets you run HyperCard stacks by emulating the entire Macintosh system, but you can also use the HyperCard Simulator:

https://hcsimulator.com/

You can click on a menu at the top right to bring up a list of stacks. It simulates HyperCard directly rather than simulating an entire Macintosh, so it’s a lot faster and more convenient to work with. Not all stacks are compatible, but there’s a wide selection.

hyperhello• 4 years ago

To clarify, all stacks are compatible, including the built in color tools. If there’s an XCMD inside that has not been supported yet, the stack will still run otherwise.

mikewarot3• 4 years ago

Not being an Apple/Mac user, I was able to get into the "About Hypercard" box, but never back out. There doesn't appear to be a way to close dialog boxes.

pmcjones• 4 years ago

Keep clicking in the box until it goes away.

mikewarot3• 4 years ago

[Edit]

Ok... weird GUI behavior, thanks for the help. I had no expectation that the above menus had anything to do with the open window. Especially when if you click on them, they don't open.

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Steps to reproduce:

Open HyperCard 2.0

[1] https://archive.org/details/hypercard_hypercard-20-macintalk

Boots into Macintosh, awesome!

Open "Hypercard Sys 7" diskette from upper right corner

Open up Hypercard 2.4 folder

Open "About HyperCard"

Shows About Hypercard screen, no way to close it. The Close box in the upper right does nothing. Escape does nothing, clicking incessantly does nothing.

beambot• 4 years ago

I always felt like Hypercard was one small step from owning the www & modern browsing experience. It was earth shattering in its time for the ability to rapidly build multimedia experiences & applications...

tracker12• 4 years ago

IIRC, the Myst game creator was largely inspired by HyperCard.

LeoPanthera• 4 years ago

More than that, the first Myst game is literally a hypercard stack.

They didn't make their own engine until the sequel, Riven, and the "Myst Masterpiece" remake.

dang• 4 years ago

Discussed at the time (of the article):

HyperCard On The Archive - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14985604 - Aug 2017 (115 comments)

flairhop• 4 years ago

This was my introduction to writing computer logic or “programming”. Such a fun time. I remember distinctly plucking up the courage to ask for the HyperCard books from our school computer guy, it was that cool. GoldenEye HyperCard I was famous for 15 minutes.

D-Coder• 4 years ago

If you want to stick with HyperCard, I recommend LiveCode (www.livecode.com). I have a dozen stacks or more that I use to keep track of things, remind me, my own very personalized calendar program, etc etc etc.

They no longer have a free version, but to me it is well worth the approx $100/year.

homarp• 4 years ago

story of LiveCode stopping their open source version https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28370865

and an active fork https://github.com/OpenXTalk-org/OpenXtalk-IDE-DontPanicEdit...

Hypercard on the Archive (2017)

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