[HN Gopher] Show HN: A small Hypercard stack running as a PWA ___________________________________________________________________ Show HN: A small Hypercard stack running as a PWA In my early programming years, I went from BASIC to HyperCard, then learned C when I couldn't make HyperCard do everything I wanted. Plenty of folks have pointed out how the lack of native support for color doomed HyperCard. But I think it was really over when the web got started and replaced everything in the "personal content" space from underneath, so I decided to see if the idea of HyperCard would work as a web app. There are some missing pieces -- it's not perfectly compatible. You can, however, make stacks online and let others see them. Free, no ads, no personal information, you are not tracked, just a fun project. Author : hyperhello Score : 21 points Date : 2022-04-15 15:19 UTC (7 hours ago) (HTM) web link (hypercardsimulator.com) (TXT) w3m dump (hypercardsimulator.com) | watersb wrote: | Wow. Just last night, I had a dream where I had taken my family | along to a conference of AppleScript and HyperTalk developers. | | Family enjoyed the hotel and the glorious metropolis of San Jose. | A dozen or so programmers thought about ways to take AppleScript | to the next level. | | _(We could call it... AppleJava for Apps!)_ | HanClinto wrote: | Absolutely love Hypercard, and love what you did with this. | Nicely done!! | kwatsonafter wrote: | Great work. I love HyperCard. I'm too young to really have | properly played around with it but I think the idealism is | superb. There really needs to to be more popular software | inspired by acid trips. | recursivedoubts wrote: | absolutely awesome | | i am an old hypercard programmer, and i have a passion project I | work on: | | https://hyperscript.org | | which is a scripting language for the web, based on HyperTalk | samhw wrote: | I just wanted to say: I'm super anal by nature and I was fully | expecting to have some criticism to make of your site or your | language, but this is one of the most high-quality, well- | thought-out projects I've seen. The sheer thoroughness of it is | extraordinary. I especially love that you've written a proper | reference for the language. Chapeau to you. This is better than | some Google research projects I've seen. | | I'd be really interested in the underlying theory, or any | insights you had when writing this. I'm not quite old enough to | really be familiar with Hypercard, so I may be missing | something. | | (I did spot a couple of minor typesetting mistakes, of course, | haha. You've got 'anymore' ['any more'] on the '/comparison' | page, and 'propogate' ['propagate'] in the reference.) ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-04-15 23:00 UTC)