Memories: Hypercard
Ah, good days those were. I remember tinkering around with Hypercard 2.1. Making all sorts of semi-useful things for myself. Yep, those were the good days.
It took a while before I got my hands on version 2.4. It didn't really have much to offer over 2.1 except being PowerPC native. I had long since gotten a hold of the 'Addcolor' XCMD to add 32-bit color to my 'stacks'. So, that wasn't new to me. It was nice running the latest version though. I could finally use some XCMDs and such that the latest version.
It would be unfair to say all my 'stacks' didn't really fill any sort of function. Up until late 2004, I was still running my journal in Hypercard. It was lovingly called 'Journal' -how is that for creative naming. It was quite nice to tell you the truth. It even encrypted my entries so that no prying eyes could get a looksy. And I made it all myself. Good days indeed.
Once Hypercard started to show its age, I started to look for alternatives. I remember looking at one called MetaCard. God, it sucked big time. Damn, talk about Windows-esque. Ughh. I immediatly deleted it from my hard drive. It was about then that I decided that Hypercard had no heir. So, I continued to use it to its full extent until Mac OS X came. Of course, I didn't install OS X on my mac until 10.3.
When that came, I quickly looked for a replacement for the last hypercard stack I was using, 'Journal'. Luckily I found one. Unfortuneatly, that also removed the last vestige of Hypercard's purpose to me. Not to worry though, for Hypercard sits in it's own little corner of my hard drive. Its own 'Folder of Honor'.
And that's all I have to say about that...
"All you have to say" can be confound between the terms "those were the good days" and "no worries". Not that there's anything wrong with that, I was just pointing something out. ;)
i remember my days of programming in hypercard, too -- it was the first thing I ever learned to program in. want to know why it really doesn't have a heir? because it was kind of a precursor to the internet and www pages -- think about it: dynamic data being distributed in multi-function pages with all sorts of neat buttons and scripts. web pages! ha!
extremely well written tom. brought a little butear to my eye.