Hypercard's history

Years before I began serious Web programming, I remember learning HyperCard in high school all the way back in 1998 (after it was already mostly dead). We sure had a lot of fun with that...

My teacher removed the bundled "Train" stack from each of the computers due to the noise it made, so I went through a lot of trouble tracking it down again and passing it around on floppies. That and some scanned images that we shouldn't have, which we later animated. ;-)

I am what people might consider a hardcore Java developer now. That said, my roots in software development stem, proudly, from HyperCard.

I have a question for this audience: Is HyperTalk the key to HyperCard's success? Would you use a HyperCard-like platform that is free, modernized to offer great web capability with similar easy of use, but with a more modern language like JavaScript and/or Groovy?

>> 3. There is no modern day equivalent to HyperCard.

Actually, there is a VERY nice one: Revolution Studio [www.runrev.com]. It has MANY more features than did HyperCard and runs most HyperCard stacks with little or no revising (unlike the infuriating SuperCard).

HIGHLY recommended for those of you who, like me, are not ready to part with some of the useful stacks we've created.

It's HyperCard on steroids... MANY more tools and features... and the stacks work cross-platform (Windows, Linux, Solaris) with a player (free download).

HyperCard may be dead but the stacks live on!

Geoff

As a FileMaker developer, I am consistently annoyed as Apple dribbles out at full upgrade prices little bits of functionality that HyperCard had all of 15 years ago.

I can't help but think that Apple realized the huge profit potential of selling what they had been giving away, and doing it a little piece at a time, and that is the real reason HyperCard was abandoned.

I still remember it! I have copies of it on My Performa, Macintosh Classic II, eMac, iMac, other iMac, and iBook. That's the sole reason I refuse to upgrade to Intel alone. I need hypercard somewhere on my desk. Long live HyperCard!

For years we used Hypercard as an in-house tool. We used it as a front end to our Oracle database, and as a GUI for our AppleScripts to automate image processing and creating prepress-ready files for hundreds of magazines every month.

XCode and web services fill the bill these days...

i loved hypercard! i used to teach classes to my local Mac user group. I wish it was still around. Haven't checked out 'revolution' lately but i guess that’s all we get these days.

well, there is revolution, http://www.runrev.com/
the next generation hypercard.

I love HyperCard... I made tons of "games" and databases etc in that application, and I loved it. Only later did I learn "real" programming, but then the knowledge I had from programming in HyperCard came in really handy too.

I want an application like that again... SuperCard is ok, but it's basically HyperCard with color, I need a little more after all this time. When it comes to databases I have turned to FileMaker, but again, I'd prefer HyperCard.

One more thing... HyperCard is back, with a vengeance! *dreaming*

Hypercard was superb, as a non programmer armed with Danny Goodmans book I was able to write software with my own interface that did what I wanted. With Sheep Shaver on my Mac Mini It's been interesting getting it running again though with limited capabilities.