Apple Gave Away The Program That Built Myst, Then Deleted It

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  @Nimboid-20 · 2 weeks ago

  I built a system controlling a very expensive stack of electronic test equipment around 1990. Each test instrument occupied its own card, with its control routines in the card's script. This was my way of upgrading from HP85s. Biggest limitation was the 32k limit on each script length.

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• LA

  @laurenmp7486 · 10 days ago

  It's not just that Myst was developed with HyperCard, the Mac version of it was nothing but a HyperCard stack. That's what was on the CD, just a stack.

• HY

  @Hyperlynx-studio · 13 days ago

  Technically a web page is on your machine at least as you access it and it’s in your cache

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  @shubus · 2 weeks ago

  Let's face we all want a modern HyperCard and the available options aren't cutting it.

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• BO

  @BobDiaz123 · 2 weeks ago

  I'm surprised that the Linux Developer Community hasn't taken this on as a program for Linux.

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• HA

  @harrisedgar · 12 days ago

  Great story..!!

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• KI

  @Kiteboardshaper · 13 days ago

  Hypercard and Visual Basic, it's like the computer overlords killed off the tools that allowed the masses to be productive on their machines. Was the concept of 'everyone can be a programmer' so scary to them that they had to pull the plug?

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• AN

  @andytsai9844 · 2 weeks ago

  Hey I just realized, it was essentially Apple's Visual Basic; yeah the voice just said so, Steve Jobs were such a prick at times.

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• UR

  @UroborosJose · 11 days ago

  The stuff was way ahead of the time

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  @tomlook3080 · 11 days ago

  I remember the Manhole and Myst when they came out.<br>Created stacks for teaching drivers liscence tests for my students<br>My first Mac ran System 4<br>Made a stack for Thoroughbred Horses From the &nbsp;Original 3 stallions through the entire pedigree of them through to around the year 2000, It was huge! :) Then Apple dropped classic support and Hypercard no longer worked, so I purchased Supercard used it to manage invoicing for a local magazine I ran for 5-6 years<br>Then I used the same Pedigree stack (converted to supercard and modified ) to make a stack for a friend who breeds Burmese cats and a second one for a friend of hers who also breeds Burmese. <br>Hypercard required a 16 bit processor, Supercard required a 32 bit processor.<br>Mac OS Catalina dropped 32 bit support and Supercard died :(<br>So, I maintain older Macs that can rum High Sierra for the two Cat Ladies .... It gets harder all the time to find and get them to work.

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  @mavricksands · 13 days ago (edited)

  Wasn&apos;t the first web server and web browser built on a N.E.X.T black cube at CERN

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• NI

  @Nimboid-20 · 2 weeks ago

  HyperCard was extensible with XCMD and XFCN libraries, often shareware from third-parties. There were some for TCP/IP communications.

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