And it had HyperCard.Ī Mac longtime Mac developer happened to write me the last week about HyperCard: The Mac with its graphical windowing environment was considered heretical for business computing.
Old mac os program hypercard Pc#
Remember that in 1987, PC users were still running MS-DOS in the command line.
Multimedia titles combined music, poetry, games, puzzles and lessons. There were kids books written in HyperTalk. It was the future of computing, hypermedia, but in the hands of anyone. But you can't imagine the impression this program made.
Yes, it was Mac-only and initially designed for the small, monochromatic screen of the Mac Plus. The collection of cards was called a "stack." Even better, the content was created in HyperTalk, an object-oriented scripting language that was aimed at the novice programmer. It combined database features in "cards" that supported clickable regions that could link to another card, or play an A/V file, or execute some function, or even launch en external program. It was certainly the first popular hypermedia program on the market. HyperCard was amazing, especially when we remember what computing was like in 1987.
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