Freely and Legally Available HyperCard - but not a solution

[J. Landman Gay]

Marian Petrides wrote:
> GS OS, while made to resemble Mac OS pre-System 7, is NOT a MacOS.  I  
> can't imagine that the ][GS version of Hypercard would read standard  
> Hypercard files.

It won't, the file formats were very different. I worked with both 
versions years ago. There used to be a translator available but the 
translation wasn't perfect. One big issue is that the GS had a different 
screen resolution than the Mac, and moving HC to GS caused all the 
images to distort and object placement was different. Even if you could 
get the HC stacks over to a GS emulator, it wouldn't do much good 
without the translation software. Also, the GS version of HyperCard only 
worked with HC 1.0 (if I remember right) and no 2.x stacks would load. 
Virtually all HC stacks available today are  in 2.0 file format, so the 
translation software wouldn't work.

Adding to this, regarding Richmond's offer: HC version 2.2.1 is ancient, 
something like 10 or 12 years old. Running it on a modern Classic 
installation would be dicey, and more than half the later abilities of 
HyperCard would cause errors when running in that version. Not a viable 
solution in my opinion, piracy or no.

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