News, info, and opinion by Mac users, for Mac users.

February 19, 2008

geekery

HyperPort enables the packrat in you

Posted Feb. 19, ’08, 5:32 AM PT by Derik DeLong
Category | Geekery

HyperPort HyperCard is one of those things that people don’t just think back upon nostalgically, they still use those stacks! Before every computer class in school had students design a website, they were designing HyperCard stacks. There’s a ton of history there.

You may not have realized (it was barely a blip on my personal radar), but Classic is dead with Leopard. HyperCard stacks were never brought into the Mac OS X world, so the only way to run them was in Classic. That’s right. It’s only taken Apple about a decade to finally kill HyperCard dead. Finis.

But maybe you’re not ready to let go. That’s where HyperPort comes in. You can take those stacks and export them into a more survivable format. Huzzah! There is a catch though, HyperPort itself is a HyperCard stack. Ironic. As such, you’ll need to do this before you upgrade to Leopard.


2 Comments

krye said:

You need to stop with the "Huzzahs".

February 19, 2008 6:08 AM
Chris said:

I was a high school teacher 12 years ago, and I remember all of my colleagues trying to get me to use HyperCard. I didn't because I knew even then that it was a doomed technology. The whole thing was flat. Put another way, HyperCard was self-contained—it refused to acknowledge that there was an outside world with developing tools that would soon make it obsolete. Honestly, I'm glad it's dead; now I can gloat about how I saw it coming a long time ago.

February 19, 2008 6:20 AM

Leave a comment

 



Visit other IDG sites: