Myst

[Judy Perry]

Somewhere I have a 'hacked' Myst stack that displays some HyperTalk
scripts... I did it to prove to my students that Myst was indeed a
Hypercard stack...

Judy

On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, Barry Levine wrote:

> IIRC, the genesis of Myst was "The Manhole" which was a HC stack
> (multiple stacks due to the elaborate "hyper-linking" of its logic). It
> was further developed into a "real" program and, while I haven't been
> able to locate the Mac version, I have found the link to the Windows
> version:
>
> http://free-game-downloads.mosw.com/abandonware/pc/educational_games/
> manhole_the.html
>
> It's "Abandonware" and is now a free download.
>
> My kids' first experience with a Mac was The Manhole (HC version). I
> had it running under HC 1.x in the MacWorks MacPlus emulation
> environment on my Lisa. It worked flawlessly and kept my kids
> entertained for hours. It also provided much of the "I can do that,
> too" attitude that led me down the path to Rev.
>
> Barry
>
> On Tuesday, Aug 26, 2003, at 08:56 America/Denver, Alex wrote:
>
> > I remember reading that somewhere Myst itself began it's life as a
> > hypercard stack.
>
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