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rlawson
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on: March 02, 2012, 15:29
I love Hypercard! I am a professional programmer so I know how tough it is to produce good software(both back in Hypercard's time as well as now). So my question is what would be the equivalent today to Hypercard? Some would say html and javascript but I think that still requires too much upfront knowledge for the average user. Is it even possible to have an equivalent given today's proliferation of operating systems and hardware. Maybe Hypercard's popularity was partly due to the consistency of the systems it ran on. |
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Lichen Software
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128 MB Posts: 252 
Reply #1 on: March 03, 2012, 12:16
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I believe that the direct decendant was Runtime Revolution, now known as LiveCode. the site is at www.runrev.com. I haven't used it. A quick look at the site indicates it runs on a lot of different platforms
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rlawson
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64 MB Posts: 92
Reply #2 on: March 04, 2012, 23:38
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Downloading and trying it now - thanks for the link
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dpaanlka
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1024 MB Posts: 1646
Reply #3 on: March 05, 2012, 23:24
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REAL Studio has grown to be extremely robust these days, far far more so than it ever was under Classic (which is one reason they changed the name from REALBasic, to disassociate from BASIC). I use it for software development myself, it can also be used for web app development now too. http://www.realsoftware.com/realstudio/
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rlawson
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64 MB Posts: 92
Reply #4 on: March 06, 2012, 01:24
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Ok great, let me go check it out. It was a good product as RealBasic, they had better OO features than VB for sure. So if they have improved then even better.
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rlawson
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64 MB Posts: 92
Reply #5 on: March 07, 2012, 14:34
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Ok I tried both and verdict is I like RealStudio better, but I think that a hobbyist or casual programmer may like runrev better. Both are really nice products though.
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dpaanlka
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1024 MB Posts: 1646
Reply #6 on: March 07, 2012, 17:06
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I would say LiveCode/RunRev looks rather unpolished. The Mac App Store is literally full of apps created entirely with REAL Studio and you wouldn't even know.
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napabar
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16 MB Posts: 19
Reply #7 on: March 12, 2012, 13:00
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I use RealStudio myself. I enjoy it very much, and have produced 7 apps in the Mac App Store using it. Keep an eye out in the next couple of weeks for RealStudio 2012 R1 to be released. It will be a major milestone on the Mac development side. The IDE will be Cocoa, and the compiled apps will be Cocoa (non-beta). Only the IDE has been renamed RealStudio. The language will always be called RealBasic!
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rlawson
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64 MB Posts: 92
Reply #8 on: March 12, 2012, 14:53
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wow that's great. Would you mind sharing the names of a couple of your apps so I can see the level of complexity that RealStudio/RealBasic is able to handle?
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dpaanlka
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1024 MB Posts: 1646
Reply #9 on: March 12, 2012, 14:58
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This is one of mine: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/arraysync/id415935093?mt=12
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rlawson
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64 MB Posts: 92
Reply #10 on: March 12, 2012, 22:03
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that looks great, I would have thought it must be Objective-C
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