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LukeG
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on: December 13, 2008, 16:17
I've been a fan of the Macintosh since I first used a Mac Plus in Kindergarten, and our family bought our first Mac in 1994 (Performa 450 with 4MB RAM and an 80MB hard disk!), which I still have alongside a Mac Plus I got from school when they were being replaced, a Centris 610, a Quadra 650, a PM7200, a PM9600, a G4/450 and a G5/1.8 (which I am now writing on). I remember the beauty of the simplicity of AppleTalk networking - at a friend's house taking the cable out of the printer and attaching it to my mac's serial port, and it was ready for Bolo or Marathon or a myriad of other networkable games. When I got the MacPlus from school I also got a bunch of PhoneNet adaptors, and we jumped from two-player to multiplayer! I remember being able to use new applications intuitively, without having to consult a manual, because of the consistency and design of the user interface. I didn't actually think about this until I had to type something up in WordPerfect for DOS. Like they say, you don't know what you've got til it's gone. I remember my wide-eyed sense of wonder after playing around in HyperCard and all the possibilities it presented - multimedia in the purest sense of the word. Out of this foundation, Cindy M. Carney created an internet newsreader and email client. Spreadsheet applications were created and distributed as self-contained Stacks. Content-serving "kiosk" applications were developed as interactivity and interface combined. While I do hope someday the next incarnation of HyperCard is developed, and while computers seem to keep increasing their technological specifications, in terms of assisting me in my creative productivity there has never been anything like HyperCard and therefore any modern hardware will never take the place of my trusty 9600 running 7.5.3 and HyperCard 2.4. |
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dpaanlka
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1024 MB Posts: 1646
Reply #1 on: December 13, 2008, 18:07
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It's not as dumbed-down as HyperCard, but RealBasic is super easy to use and way more powerful than HyperCard ever was. http://www.realbasic.com SuperCard is very similar to HyperCard and runs on Intel-based Macs. http://www.supercard.us/about/index.html
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Lichen Software
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128 MB Posts: 252 
Reply #2 on: December 14, 2008, 03:36
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Take a look at Runtime Revolution http://www.runrev.com/home/product-family/ I do believe that Hypercard is in its genes. I have not used it myself, but any postings I have seen on tech lists talks highly of it.
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