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I have been following HyperCard clones for years. It would take me some time to gather what I found, but the short answer is to download a Mac OS 9 emulator (it
by k310 1y ago
I have been following HyperCard clones for years. It would take me some time to gather what I found, but the short answer is to download a Mac OS 9 emulator (it works) and load up HyperCard 2.4.1 and have fun.
Emulators page with links to versions for MacOS and Windows.
https://mendelson.org/emulators.html https://mendelson.org/emulators.html
Hypercard 2.4.1 is available at the Macintosh Repository
https://www.macintoshrepository.org/2632-hypercard-2-4 https://www.macintoshrepository.org/2632-hypercard-2-4
I had bought it long ago and used it in my work to make simulations with graphical output (via XCMDS) and to output EPS files for tech pubs. I think that the in-house use of HyperCard was vastly under-reported.
I'll update in a reply if and when I find the best standalone HC clones in my search.
Naturally, the full-blown emulator and HC are not for kids, unless you install it for your kids. I let my daughter have some fun with the original HyperCard, and I keep a MacCube with MacOS9 for sentimental reasons, though it's boxed right now.
Sightly off-topic, Processing offers highly graphical coding.
https://processing.org/ https://processing.org/
And gcompris offers lots of educational apps that one might have written in HyperCard.
https://www.gcompris.net/index-en.html https://www.gcompris.net/index-en.html
- WillAdams 1y agoI mentioned Processing --- there isn't an interactive graphical front-end --- it's a text editing/result window pair. Another concern is the last time I looked into it I couldn't get the precision necessary --- has that changed? Probably I should just use Hypernext Studio: https://tigabyte.com/ https://tigabyte.com/ but I don't like that it's closed source/very small company (one person?) and not really cross-platform.