I just downloaded this and popped in onto my 6500 (OS 9.1). What do you guys do with this app (if anything), and can you give me any pointers on what all can be done with it?
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You mean you've never used it before?? Wow. I first learnt to program it when I was about 8; learnt it by looking at other stacks' scripts. Released a whole swag of freeware programs I wrote in it. Many happy memories.

The great thing about it is its versatility - if ever I needed a program that could do something specific, but the program didn't exist, there was a good chance I'd be able to knock something up in HyperCard to do the job. Apple are crazy to have discontinued it. I guess though it's more suited to performing elementary computer functions rather than the high end stuff most people use computers for these days. Wouldn't really be much of a drawcard next to iMovie and the like.

As for what you could use it for - lots of stuff! Games (if you could be bothered writing them), basic utilities, endlessly customisable databases, productivity programmes. The best thing I wrote in it was an artificial intelligence program that you could have a conversation with. Pointless but fun. It was an amazing program for its day and if they gave it an overhaul it would still be extremely useful. I guess the closest thing these days is RealBasic, but that's ridiculously hard to use in comparison.

I once made a database program in Hypercard, about 10 years ago. As well as an adventure game type thingy. (kinda like Spelunx, which was also made in HyperCard, as well as Myst, but very ****)

There's lots and lots of things you can do with it.
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You tried any of those HyperCard clones for OSX? This post re-sparked my interest in it. Not least because I can't find any decent database programs for OSX.

Are HyperStudio and SuperCard still around? Interesting - but I don't think either of them compete with good ol' HyperCard 2.x.

I quite liked HyperCard 2.3, upgraded to 2.4, it had color, and all of the other cool hypercard things.

As has been said, you can do almost anything in HyperCard - and if you cant do it in HyperCard, it may not have been possible in that time.

I've done simple animations, and a lot of things I would do in Flash today using HyperCard.

There was also a network stack sharing/serving thing, I think it let you server up stacks over HTTP - interesting collab/network-hypercard opportunities with that, especially using text fields.

I've also always wanted to make hypercard stacks talk to eachother over a network. Hypercard-Chat or Hypercard-Forum, anyone? Limited usefulness today, but it would be super-nifty to see.
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SuperCard is still around; it was always better than HyperCard anyway I think. Had full colour support and was pretty much what HyperCard should/would have been, had Apple given it the full support it deserved. Even when HyperCard finally got colour, its colour support was clunky to say the least. Don't know about HyperStudio but there are heaps of other clones around from full featured commercial ones like Runtime Revolution to opensource ones like PythonCard. I'm surprised Apple hasn't sued them for blatant plagarism actually.

And yeah, that HyperCard networking stuff is cool. I wrote an e-mail program for sending messages over a LocalTalk network in HyperCard, years before e-mail was being used to communicate at workplaces. So I'm partly to blame for the decline in face-to-face communication. :p

I learnt HyperCard when I was young, I found it on my dad's LC when I was bored and started looking at stacks and stuff.
I made an Address Book, which I actually used , a customizable quiz game, various databases, and probably more I can't remember.
The last things I did were a CGI for remote administration on my server (when it was a Performa running MacHTTP), and a program for converting images to text (not ascii art, but each pixel was a zero in the right colour, and 1pt size) mainly for pasting in carracho servers (anyone remember carracho?). And also a Hypercard-chat, with AppleEvents.

I've tried MetaCard, SuperCard, and Revolution, but I still think there's no decent modern alternative.
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