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Well, there goes my weekend. Happy to see the Hypercard love is still out there. I think about it a lot. I love the idea of a coffee shop or a bicycle shop that
by gdubs 5y ago
Well, there goes my weekend. Happy to see the Hypercard love is still out there. I think about it a lot. I love the idea of a coffee shop or a bicycle shop that's run on a Hypercard stack on an old Mac.
In case you've never seen it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FquNpWdf9vg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FquNpWdf9vg
- jkestner 5y agoHa - Gary Kildall (who missed the opportunity to be Bill Gates) is a host. Good Atkinson comment that illustrates how powerful of a tool this was for verticals: "A whole new body of people that have creative ideas but aren’t programmers will be able to express their ideas or their expertise..."
- pbourke 5y agoWow - thanks for posting this. It’s 30 years later and we really don’t have anything comparable to HyperCard in terms of making programming accessible to non programmers.
- RodgerTheGreat 5y agoThe closest we have today in terms of universal accessibility is Excel, but it's a far less charming and elegant environment than Hypercard.
- D-Coder 5y agoLiveCode.com. Very compatible with the original HyperCard (I know, I had to switch. And I'm a software guy.) AND multi-platform!
- anaerobicover 5y agoI had one job during university at a café breakfast shop which the point of sale, scheduling, payrolls, and such were run by the owner's custom FileMaker program. (She did not like to spend money on commercial software.) It was not so enjoyable as we nostalgiac would think. :)