@Tim Dietrich I have never been a fan of HyperCard. What really drew me in was the proportional font. I was using an Atari ST at the time and the Macintosh emulator “Spectre” was just mind-blowing for me! I bought my first Mac (a powerBook Duo) and never looked back.
However, that does not prevent me to criticize Apple when I feel it necessary… especially in the few past years.
That is fun Had a very strong moment of some strong emotion launching mac paint and just looking at that original interface. Used that for the first time in High School and being already into computers in the form of the TRS-80s and Apple ][es that we had previously in school I was just blown away at the pattern fill and other bits of that which worked so well and so fast compared to what could be done elsewhere
Ugh I LOVED HyperCardStudio when I was a kid! Another one of the ways I first started getting into programming. I can’t recall when I made the jump from HyperCard to Xojo but I remember having learned a lot of the basics from looking at sample HyperCard projects. Between that and writing BASIC on actual “floppy” disks for our Apple II at home, I started programming games as an outlet to my appease my creative side. A few decades later I’m now programming as a career. I wish I could still go back and look at some of the games a wrote. I remember finding workarounds like crazy to make my ideas come to life for a HyperCard Zelda Adventure game back in the day. Is there any actual relationship between Xojo/RealBasic and HyperCard?
On that era I ended up using HyperCard at a daily base for creating “application” like stuff. By discovering HyperCard gets abandoned, looking for a replacement, I switched to REALbasic, which is Xojo now.