Hypercard?
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Wow. I didn't know this app was around anymore. Back in the day this app was killer.
It's almost like Apple INVENTED the hyperlink, huh?
Wow. I didn't know this app was around anymore. Back in the day this app was killer.
It's almost like Apple INVENTED the hyperlink, huh?
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it is called iHUG
check it out ese <img src="graemlins/smokin.gif" border="0" alt="[Chilling]" />
HyperCard is Apple's premier tool for creating custom software solutions for business, education, and multimedia--and now, the World Wide Web! <hr></blockquote>
lol @ "and now, the World Wide Web". Does anyone even call it that now anymore?
I'm making a tracker program for a local church nursery... child info, details on activities, etc.
The only computer in the building is an old Quadra. The admin person has a PC at home. She wants to be able to use both systems to edit data. So I'm going to make a PC version (visual basic) and use Hypercard to make a Mac version. Then I'll do some kind of sync routine and use floppy disks to pass the data across.
Amorya
<strong>I'm about to use it to do my computer science (A level, not uni) coursework on!
I'm making a tracker program for a local church nursery... child info, details on activities, etc.
The only computer in the building is an old Quadra. The admin person has a PC at home. She wants to be able to use both systems to edit data. So I'm going to make a PC version (visual basic) and use Hypercard to make a Mac version. Then I'll do some kind of sync routine and use floppy disks to pass the data across.
Amorya</strong><hr></blockquote>You could also use RealBasic which is a lot like visual basic and can compile for both windows and mac.
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<strong>You could also use RealBasic which is a lot like visual basic and can compile for both windows and mac.
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Thanks for the advice, but that involves parting with cash - I'm a poor student making do with what I have access to. I've used Hypercard in the past, and VB's taught at college next year, so I think it should be OK.
Amorya
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Wow. I didn't know this app was around anymore. Back in the day this app was killer.
It's almost like Apple INVENTED the hyperlink, huh?</strong><hr></blockquote>
well the "first" multimedia title, "Stravinsky's Rites of Spring - interactive", was built with hypercard.
and there were even groovy games built with hypercard...
remember <a href="http://macintroid.tripod.com/macintroid/id6.html" target="_blank">these games (scroll halfway down)</a>
Glider was awesome... hours of distraction on the original PB 100
Luckily, there is RealBasic, its easy to learn and you can do plenty with it.
Sadly, hypercard is everything Macintosh is and apple no longer wants to be. If only they'd realise that a new multimedia Director Killer hypercard X for web, dvd and cd would make the Mac great again?
SuperCard for X is in beta and <a href="http://www.supercard.us/" target="_blank">is downloadable.</a>
It runs lots of old Hypercard stuff. I downloaded it and played around - slow as hell, but otherwise just like the old SuperCard but with Aqua.
Could be a replacement for Realbasic for some people.
"Exploit the power of Quicktime 3!"
1) AppleScript Studio
This is basically HC on steroids, with a less friendly interface. <img src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" /> OSAXen are not bloodly likely to be ported, but AS lets you interact with *any* C, C++, Obj-C code you care to throw at it. Very slick. Very powerful. Not as accessible.
2) OmniGraffle
No, really. Stop snickering. Did you know that you can attach AppleScripts to objects in an OG diagram? Or the toolbar? Given a good palette (which I'm sure some creative folks on here could whip up in no time, hint hint), and some AppleScript knowledge (instead of HyperTalk), a reasonable facsimile of HyperCard can be produced fairly quickly.
HC was literally years ahead of its time, and is still provided as an exquisite example of programming methodology design in academic circles... but we're not likely to see it resurrected as it was on OS X. There are all the pieces in place, with individually superior technologies... what's missing is the integration. I believe we'll see that in short time.