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jmiserez | 4 years ago

>I guess a the height of hypercard, that really wasn't really on people's radar.

It didn't matter yet. People were shipping the software they made in HyperCard to customers on floppies or CDs. IIRC these were self-contained executables, so you didn't need to have HyperCard installed for it to run. One of the most famous examples of this was Myst: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myst.

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klodolph|4 years ago

Myst is an interesting example… while it’s definitely a HyperCard stack, it relies heavily on XCMDs and XFCNs… which let you call into native code. So while it’s certainly the most famous example of a program written in HyperCard, it’s not a typical or representative example of how people made HyperCard programs.

Here’s a recent thread about it: https://twitter.com/uliwitness/status/1408841306013581313