HyperCard Nostalgia
Users reminisce about Apple's HyperCard software, highlighting its innovative accessible programming model, historical impact, Apple's discontinuation of it, and modern successors like LiveCode.
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Do you remember Hypercard? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FquNpWdf9vg
Always been interested in Hypercard, but never used it. Is it worth playing with in 2022 as a curio?
HyperCard did some of those things!
If you're ever feeling nostalgic for HyperCard, check out https://livecode.com/ -- clearly designed based on HC, but includes many modern features and runs on Mac, Windows, and Linux.
A little more complex version of hypercard?
Man that's almost like Hypercard.
Makes me nostalgic for the days of Hypercard...
Is there an open-source hypercard equivalent? It seems that Hypercard made programming very accessible, so it would be good if an open source project/community is continuing the ethos.
I've thought a lot about HyperCard.In 1994, when I was in fifth grade, I used HyperCard to make a demo of a program that would allow you to fax a grocery order to a store using a modem after you checked off the items you wanted to buy. Then the store would deliver your order to you. I didn't actually know how to make use of hardware devices like modems, but it was possible to make the user interface work reasonably well on a Macintosh LC II. I was of course bummed that there was no
Apple should have just doubled down on HyperCard