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An upgrade to HyperCard was SuperCard, which supported color and a whole bunch more. I wrote a printed circuit design program in SuperCard, which generated Gerb

An upgrade to HyperCard was SuperCard, which supported color and a whole bunch more. I wrote a printed circuit design program in SuperCard, which generated Gerbers for double sided boards, no soldermask or silkscreen. I wish I still had it, source code and all of my designs are long gone. That was maybe around 1995 IIRC. I used the GUI layout tool to draw the board using basic shapes, which a script would then interpret and convert into Gerbers. My boards were typically around 2 x 2 inches, sparsely populated with through hole parts. I have a hunch that I lucked out with a board supplier who could interpret my files. I'm pleased to see that SuperCard still exists! https://www.supercard.us/ https://www.supercard.us/

kristopolous 4y ago
Wasn't there a networked version of that? I feel like I was using one back in the day
wsh 4y ago
> I'm pleased to see that SuperCard still exists! Just barely. There’s not a 64-bit version (for lack of Carbon libraries), much less one for ARM64. The developers suggest using a VM: https://www.supercard.us/supercard-in-parallels.html https://www.supercard.us/supercard-in-parallels.html
karmelapple 4y ago
LiveCode [1] [2] still exists and seems to be actively maintained! Runtime Revolution was the spiritual successor to SuperCard, and made building color, cross-platform stack-like apps totally possible. The language is still very close to HyperTalk, so it has a much shallower learning curve than many C-style languages. 1. https://livecode.com https://livecode.com 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiveCode_(company) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiveCode_(company)
- RobotToaster 4y ago
  Shame they went closed source.
donatj 4y ago
> SuperCard remains a 32-bit application and will continue to be for the foreseeable future. This means it is not compatible with Catalina (macOS 10.15) or later versions of macOS. Boooo I got super excited for a moment at the prospect of building some stacks.
- RodgerTheGreat 4y ago
  Try Decker; it runs on modern Macs, Windows, Linux, and probably your web browser, too: https://beyondloom.com/decker/tour.html https://beyondloom.com/decker/tour.html
  - pbronez 4y ago
    Oof that is NOT a mobile friendly link

kristopolous 4y ago

Wasn't there a networked version of that? I feel like I was using one back in the day

wsh 4y ago

> I'm pleased to see that SuperCard still exists! Just barely. There’s not a 64-bit version (for lack of Carbon libraries), much less one for ARM64. The developers suggest using a VM: https://www.supercard.us/supercard-in-parallels.html https://www.supercard.us/supercard-in-parallels.html

karmelapple 4y ago

LiveCode [1] [2] still exists and seems to be actively maintained! Runtime Revolution was the spiritual successor to SuperCard, and made building color, cross-platform stack-like apps totally possible. The language is still very close to HyperTalk, so it has a much shallower learning curve than many C-style languages. 1. https://livecode.com https://livecode.com 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiveCode_(company) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiveCode_(company)

RobotToaster 4y ago
Shame they went closed source.

donatj 4y ago

> SuperCard remains a 32-bit application and will continue to be for the foreseeable future. This means it is not compatible with Catalina (macOS 10.15) or later versions of macOS. Boooo I got super excited for a moment at the prospect of building some stacks.

RodgerTheGreat 4y ago
Try Decker; it runs on modern Macs, Windows, Linux, and probably your web browser, too: https://beyondloom.com/decker/tour.html https://beyondloom.com/decker/tour.html
- pbronez 4y ago
  Oof that is NOT a mobile friendly link