HyperCard was probably the most powerful platform on the Mac that I never used, regretfully. (I was an entirely-PC/Windows kid at the time.)
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All Hyped Up for HyperCard: Further Adventures with an Apple Legacy Format
Open Source HyperCard
- The xTalk interpreter archive - Lots of HyperTalk-like programming languages, with source code
- OpenXION - A cross-platform HyperTalk-like programming language written in Java, with source code.
- HCX - Mac OS X source code for reading HyperCard stacks.
- stackimport - A command-line tool that exports HyperCard stacks into image files and XML suitable for import into other applications.
- CinsImp - A HyperCard clone that runs on the web. This is a port of a previous Mac desktop application of the same name, for which Source code is available.
- HyperCardPreview - An application written in Swift that tries to faithfully render HyperCard stacks on OS X, bitmap fonts and all.
- Stacksmith - An open source HyperCard clone-in-development of which you can already try occasional builds.
- HyperCard File Format - A description of the general structure of a HyperCard stack on disk.
- Pierre's HyperCard File Format - A modified version of the HyperCard File Format description above that contains additional information. Contributed by Pierre Lorenzi.
- AddColor Resource Format - A description of the general structure of the resources used by HyperCard 2.3 and later to store color information.
- ColdCoffee HyperTalk to Java converter - A bunch of Java source code files that read a subset of HyperTalk and create Java source code from that.
- XFromApp XCMD engine - Old C/C++ source code for running HyperCard plugins (XCMDs and XFCNs). Mostly of historical interest.
- HyperTalk 1.x BNF grammar - A grammar for the HyperTalk programming langiage.
Commercial HyperCard clones
- SuperCard - The first HyperCard clone. For Mac OS X.
- LiveCode - Originally known as MetaCard, this cross-platform IDE runs on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Android, iOS and as a browser plugin.
- NovoCard - A simple HyperCard-like app for the iPad, with JavaScript as the programming language.
- BayCard - A modern HyperCard-like system for the Mac with Button Tasks/ClickScript-style programming.
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Last modified 06 April 2022