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The world needs to know more about HyperCard 3. I wish some kind person would throw a development version up online for us plebs to explore. It would be great t

by scroot 4y ago

The world needs to know more about HyperCard 3. I wish some kind person would throw a development version up online for us plebs to explore. It would be great to know and see what it was going to be all about!

CharlesW 4y ago
I couldn't agree more. HyperCard changed the world, and it's a tragedy that it was abandoned. The idea that QuickTime¹ would be the runtime for HyperCard 3² — or from a different perspective, that HyperCard stacks would be just another media type — was extremely clever. We'd³ previously experimented with specific interactive functionality, but QTi generalized interactive media capabilities in a technically-interesting way that would greatly amplify both what HyperCard and what QuickTime were capable of. The 1996 WWDC session Hypercard 3.0: The Phoenix Rises was electric. Here's a report from that session, complete with a response from the awesome Kevin Calhoun. http://folkstream.com/muse/teachhc/hc3.html http://folkstream.com/muse/teachhc/hc3.html > It would be great to know and see what it was going to be all about! From an authoring POV, it was "just" HyperCard with super-powers. But from a distribution POV, the magic was that stacks would work anywhere that Movies worked — web pages, email, documents, applications (imagine GUIs composed of "micro-stack" controls), etc. ¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuickTime#QuickTime_interactive https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuickTime#QuickTime_interactiv... ² https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperCard#HyperCard_3.0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperCard#HyperCard_3.0 ³ Royal "we", my specific role was evangelism
- scroot 4y ago
  > The 1996 WWDC session Hypercard 3.0: The Phoenix Rises was electric. Here's a report from that session, complete with a response from the awesome Kevin Calhoun. http://folkstream.com/muse/teachhc/hc3.html http://folkstream.com/muse/teachhc/hc3.html Makes me sad to read this!
- scroot 4y ago
  I'm still hoping that some hero out there has a copy of HyperCard 3 alpha on a computer somewhere, and might be willing to upload it...

by scroot 4y ago

CharlesW 4y ago

I couldn't agree more. HyperCard changed the world, and it's a tragedy that it was abandoned. The idea that QuickTime¹ would be the runtime for HyperCard 3² — or from a different perspective, that HyperCard stacks would be just another media type — was extremely clever. We'd³ previously experimented with specific interactive functionality, but QTi generalized interactive media capabilities in a technically-interesting way that would greatly amplify both what HyperCard and what QuickTime were capable of. The 1996 WWDC session Hypercard 3.0: The Phoenix Rises was electric. Here's a report from that session, complete with a response from the awesome Kevin Calhoun. http://folkstream.com/muse/teachhc/hc3.html http://folkstream.com/muse/teachhc/hc3.html > It would be great to know and see what it was going to be all about! From an authoring POV, it was "just" HyperCard with super-powers. But from a distribution POV, the magic was that stacks would work anywhere that Movies worked — web pages, email, documents, applications (imagine GUIs composed of "micro-stack" controls), etc. ¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuickTime#QuickTime_interactive https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuickTime#QuickTime_interactiv... ² https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperCard#HyperCard_3.0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperCard#HyperCard_3.0 ³ Royal "we", my specific role was evangelism

scroot 4y ago
> The 1996 WWDC session Hypercard 3.0: The Phoenix Rises was electric. Here's a report from that session, complete with a response from the awesome Kevin Calhoun. http://folkstream.com/muse/teachhc/hc3.html http://folkstream.com/muse/teachhc/hc3.html Makes me sad to read this!
scroot 4y ago
I'm still hoping that some hero out there has a copy of HyperCard 3 alpha on a computer somewhere, and might be willing to upload it...