Hypercard and OS/X ...

[tbohon]

I'm a Mac newbie - many, many years in Unix and Micro$oft worlds so I play with an iMac (OS/X 10.1.5 is all it can do, it's an older model) at night.

Has anyone installed Hypercard 2.2 on this version of the OS and, if so, any problems or did it work OK? I'd like to 'play' with HC but don't want to cause myself unnecessary headaches - far too old for that nonsense!

Thanks in advance.

Tom

 

[NorthStarDA]

oooh i haven't heard about hypercard for a while now, i used it back in OS 8.6 days, it doesn't run in OSX as far as i know, maybe you can use classic and run it under OS 9?


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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
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[tbohon]

That's what I'd suspected after talking with my wife (a long time Mac-o-holic) ... who is giving me no end of harassment about wanting to learn something about HC. Heck, I've used 30 or more other languages in the past 38+ years in the coding business, just trying to learn something new as I get older!!!

Thanks for the info - will give it a shot and post the results here in the next day or two.

Best,

Tom

 

[NorthStarDA]

maybe applescript is another option for you, it is very much supported on OSX and with AppleScript Studio, you can write entire applications in AppleScript. And it's pretty easy too.


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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas A. Edison

 

[GrayShades]

Or, if you haven't done so, Perl is a supported language with OS X.

Software: XL2002 on Win2K
Humanware: Older than dirt

 

[tbohon]

Thanks for the additional tips. I'm pretty comfortable with Perl ... maybe that's the answer.

I've also found another product - HyperNext - from

http://www.tigabyte.com

- that builds on HyperText. Have been playing with it a bit and like it. Has a nice IDE, visual card building, etc. Will probably *NOT* install the old (ver 2.2) HyperCard for now anyway - want to see what HyperNext can do for me.

Appreciate it!