Okay folks, some of you were actually alive and using computers when #hypercard was a thing.
Tell me about your hypercard memories.
Did you make weird games or hypertext novels? Are any of them still out there? What were your favorites?
(I'm working on a thing, I need info.)
@fobo That's super neat! Do you still have it?
@ajr sadly, no. There's an extremely small chance there's a set of floppies back in my parent's crawlspace with it, but I strongly doubt it.
@fobo I'm hearing that all too often when I talk to folks.
I'm getting a lot of "I made cool stuff and felt accomplished" and even some "I made a thing that all my friends loved" but no one has them anymore.
I'm not sure I could figure out how to make the stacks work, even if they weren't lost to the sands of time or whatever.
@ajr in 4th grade I read a hypercard presentation about ellis island for school. i know I spent many days hacking on hypercard scripting stuff but I can't remember any of it now :(
@ajr oh man, it seems to me it was a hundred years ago!
at the time i thought it was awesome, what would i think now ?!
@ajr i can't even remember what i did whith this soft
@ajr Both alive and used it eg. to build presentations for school and D&D stufl. Remember seeing www in approx 1995 and thinking "Shitty #hypercard"
Our main student project was to tell an interactive horror story. Most of the kids seemed to enjoy it.
@ajr i WISH i still had any of my hypercard stacks. no idea if they're still on some backup medium somewhere. i actually have some backup *tapes* kicking around (i forget the format!), but no tape reader to read them :(
@bunnyhero No cassette deck?
If you know which computer they came from, interpreting those audio files is actually normally pretty easy. Some emulators can load them directly.
@ajr they're not audio tapes, they're the specialized digital backup tapes, like the kind described in this old article (alas, the images are broken :( ) http://www.macworld.com/article/1014410/16reviewstape.html
@bunnyhero Oh, gotcha.
@ajr oh yes, I made barely comprehensible hypercard choose your own adventures. I don't remember much about them but I know "oh no you found a ghost!" was a pretty common end
@ajr I was in HS when HyperCard was in its day. We used it for an English/History assignment the way you might use PowerPoint or a simple website today, but with a bit more interactivity. Click around an image to learn more about some facet of historical life, writings from the time, etc. Page through information about a novel or the author's life. That sort of thing.
@ajr I was in high school at the time. Since I was so far advanced of the BASIC and Pascal class, my teacher basically stuck me in a corner and I created Hypercard click-and-point games.
Sadly, none of them have survived at this point. :(
@ajr I used it in ninth grade to try to create a jungle choose-your-own-adventure/FPS, where I'd hide invisible buttons where you were supposed to shoot. each card took forever and the difficulty level was very low. It was a cool program though!
The zoom-In function where you could draw things pixel-by-pixel was my jam.