If you are participating in #marchintosh and #globaltalk and like text adventure games, the demo release of Adventure! my mostly text #hypercard adventure game is available for download from my Eric’s Edge zone. Including a PDF draft of the game manual.
If you are participating in #marchintosh and #globaltalk and like text adventure games, the demo release of Adventure! my mostly text #hypercard adventure game is available for download from my Eric’s Edge zone. Including a PDF draft of the game manual.
Happy 74th birthday, Bill Atkinson! Thanks for making tools that changed the world. We hope to hear about your recovery.
I got some great #retroprogramming books: Essential #lisp, #hypercard , and #latex.
Is there a good #hypercard emulation environment? Honestly, the pictures of gorgeous system 7 (I think) menus will be more than worth that books’s price. Excited!
reading the Hypercard manual today for UI inspiration and found an ultra hot “tearaway” action I had no idea existed until today.
Announcing the availability of TalkCrawler for #GlobalTalk, the all-singing, all-dancing network scanning #HyperCard stack!
This tool scans the network for zones, machines, services and file shares, keeping statistics, drawing charts, calculating uptime & latency, and helping you discover new machines that showed up overnight, even when you were asleep! A database is kept of everything found that you can browse at your leisure.
Can be found in "#MARCHintosh Stuff" on Blackbird on BaroNet now!
Lots of progress today. All the features are in now.
Some UI fixes to do, but mainly just need to optimize things, since I've been developing this on a zippy PowerBook G3 with an SSD and on anything slower it may be nearly unusable (eg all the lists get built dynamically from the cards in different backgrounds). Also, putting those icons in the lists seems pretty slow as well, might need a setting to disable them.
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just over one year later: I FOUND IT
the image was indeed of Boy George, and was found on a shareware CD-ROM of b&w 1-bit images in .IFF format
below:
BOYGEORGE.IFF, MADONNA1.IFF, FRAMPTON.IFF
my memory lied to me - i had thought they were scanned and atkinson-dithered photos, but they were in fact hand-drawn!
thank you discmaster 
http://discmaster.textfiles.com/browse/10753/Epic%20Collection%203,%20The%20(1997)(Epic%20Marketing)[!].iso/clipz/mono/music/people
thanks to many of your very inspiring hypercard stories and stacks, i finally tracked down a copy of v1 in its original box
my immediate impression is that apple's ambivalence toward the software is apparent all over the box. marketing/executives just didn't understand *what* hypercard was, and they didn't know how to sell it on its merits.
is it a "personal toolkit for information"? an "information manager"? what the heck could that possibly mean to anyone in 1987? 
thank the sweet lord jebus bill atkinson pushed so hard to get hypercard packed in to every macintosh sold, because if this box was supposed to sell the product, it wouldn't have sold anything.
that being said - i love this box design. it's pleasantly understated in the off-white styling of 1987 apple products. that style would disappear for over a decade, before getting resurrected (in a much more visually striking manner) with OS X and Aqua.
(Also: long live #HyperCard!)
Sometimes I tell young people about #HyperCard and they don't fully believe me.
http://scripting.com/2025/02/15/131146.html
bill atkinson's 25th anniversary of hypercard talk at the berkeley macintosh user's group does such a wonderful job of communicating how important it was to allow people to express themselves through software authoring, instead of leaving software development to programmers
"Some of the stacks I was most interested in were stacks that were really kind of ugly, but they did exactly what this person needed. There was no way in hell a programmer would have ever been interested. There was no market to write that for.
But this guy had something to do with his astronomy gear - something that helped him point his telescope. He knew what he needed; he wasn't a programmer, but he could make it.
Some of the stacks did not have a lot of aesthetic polish. I used to say: some of these stacks, only a mother could love, but those mothers loved them."
Wow! Bill Atkinson and Danny Goodman in one show.
I loved and worked professionally with HyperCard.
#HyperCard #ComputerHistory #Database is ALL. #ComputerScience https://merveilles.town/@exquisitecorp/113994597747046756
fellow hypercard authors and vintage mac enthusiasts -
we have great documentaries and books on the history of the mac and the newton
is there a book or paper(s) written on the history or hypercard and/or hypertalk? there are tons of technical books written on both, but i'm finding very little in terms of deep histories on them.
EDIT: It has found a home.
#Free to a good home: An original Apple user manual for HyperCard. Is it spiral bound. 
#Macintosh #RetroComputing #VintageComputers #HyperCard #UserManual
Help me out, oh angels, demons, and jinn who watch the fediverse!
Someone has a copy to spare of the Harper Voyager edition of Susan Faludi's Backlash converted to a #Hypercard Stack.
I'd love to take it off your hands so I can also get a copy to the Internet Archive.
HyperTMON
https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/hypertmon
Interactive debugger for HyperCard stacks written by Peter Nagel of Soliloquy Software and published by ICOM Simulations.
#macgarden #developmenttools #hypercard #1989 #icomsimulations #peternagel
Getting ready for when the film scanner arrives… the driver help file is a #HyperCard stack <3
Anyone who has ever been involved with #HyperCard, #Revolution or #LiveCode will be familiar with the name Jerry Daniels. Who could forget his skill and enthusiasm, especially for script editors. I regret to report that Jerry died last night after a long fight with cancer. He will be sadly missed.
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