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My experience with HC didn't resemble anything I later did with HTML. I think the only thing they had in common was hyperlinks. At the Fremont factory, there were SEs and Pluses running HC as a front end for assembly robots, where the operators could select what product that robot was going to work on. Granted, it was for marketing so they could say there were Macs building Macs: the little Macintosh was "running" a robot assembly cell as big as a large closet. I can't see where html would have been as good a tool for that use.
The great thing for us non-coders I remember about HC was its simple syntax. With no software skills. I wrote a stack that was a timer for my darkroom. Couldn't have done that with HTML.
I don't know of anything like HC available today.
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Filliam H. Muffman wrote:
SuperCard.
https: //www.supercard.us/
Just a note from their web site:
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. While it is possible to run SuperCard under Catalina in a Parallels Virtual Machine, it is not natively compatible.
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Ted King wrote:
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https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/05/...o-the-web/
That was a very enjoyable read. Brought back a lot of memories. For a few years I had my students create presentations using HyperCard - until PowerPoint came along. There were also some HyperCard stacks that I bought or were shared around that had excellent information on all kinds of topics in science, so I had the students use those as a source and in a couple of cases those stacks were used in several days of curriculum. I knew HyperCard could do more than slide shows but I didn't give HyperTalk the value I should have and didn't teach the kids how to use it.
My son, on the other hand, took to HyperCard like breathing air. At about 11 or 12 years old he showed me that he had used HyperCard and HyperTalk to create a piano keyboard that when a key was clicked on it would play that note and then make a notation of it. A series of clicks were recorded as a "score" that could be played out in sequence. It kinda blew my mind. He was always good with that kind of stuff. When he was about 7 or 8 I taught him how to use Apple Logo. I also just for fun had figured out how to use my color TV as a monitor (though most of the time just stayed with the standard gray scale monitor). I came home one day and he showed me this geometrically intricate animation he had done in color. Not saying he was a genius, but he was pretty sharp with respect to that kind of thing. Not surprisingly he is a Cloud Infrastructure Architect now.
Sounds genius to me.
