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[–] RaoulDook@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (5 children)

I remember opening HyperCard on our Mac a couple of times when I was a kid. I didn't know what I was doing and couldn't really figure out what it was for.

[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (4 children)

HyperCard was basically the viewer/player for HyperCard stacks/files. HyperStudio was the program used to make them.

It was sorta kind of akin to making basic 'web page' like card presentations, but before the actual internet was a public thing, with images, text, programmable buttons to jump between cards, special effects for card transitions, etc.

I'm nostalgic for stuff like that, but I've never been able to find a pirated copy of HyperStudio to install into my old System 7.5.5 virtual machine ☹️

I should admit that it's been years since I messed around with old Macintosh or looked into the old Mac retro sites, it's probably out there somewhere..

[–] mlfh 13 points 1 month ago

Myst and Riven were built on HyperCard, also!

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