I miss HyperCard. I guess you can do most of it in Keynote, though (Apple's version of PowerPoint). There are also websites. I don't think HyperCard did anything a web page couldn't.
It was fun to play with, though. I built a bibliography of Stephen King books in school. I remember bringing all my SK books from home to scan the covers. Borrowed a couple from the library (this was in high school, and yes, they actually had a couple). I may have gotten some covers online, but I'm not sure. It was a long time ago. You could easily find them now, but back then I'm not so sure.
You can’t do all of it. HyperCard wasn’t just a system for making pages of content connected with links, it was also a full programming language and it had a built in database. This made it easy to do things like build a recipe app that you could add more recipes to without having to build actual cards for each recipe.
Doing this on a website would involve using a database like MySQL and writing some kind of application server. It could not be done with just plain HTML.
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MirrorGiraffe@piefed.social · 5 pts · 275d
Me and my friends used to make games on hypercard all the time, it was a blast!
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 275d
I miss HyperCard. I guess you can do most of it in Keynote, though (Apple's version of PowerPoint). There are also websites. I don't think HyperCard did anything a web page couldn't.
It was fun to play with, though. I built a bibliography of Stephen King books in school. I remember bringing all my SK books from home to scan the covers. Borrowed a couple from the library (this was in high school, and yes, they actually had a couple). I may have gotten some covers online, but I'm not sure. It was a long time ago. You could easily find them now, but back then I'm not so sure.
chonglibloodsport@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 275d
You can’t do all of it. HyperCard wasn’t just a system for making pages of content connected with links, it was also a full programming language and it had a built in database. This made it easy to do things like build a recipe app that you could add more recipes to without having to build actual cards for each recipe.
Doing this on a website would involve using a database like MySQL and writing some kind of application server. It could not be done with just plain HTML.
jimmy90@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 275d
kinda like VB with a DB