Where does survive the inventive user ?

[Bob Sneidar]

I don't agree that Hypercard didn't work. It worked amazingly! Just not as a mainstream development environment, but it was never marketed or presented as such. A lot of people wrote Xcmd's for it. One guy wrote an Xcmd that allowed you to access a dBase database file and read and write to it. It wasn't very good though, very buggy, but the concept was sound. 

I think Hypercard happened too early, and lacked so many things for so long that people eventually went elsewhere. It took them forever to include color support, and then it wasn't very good, and Apple had already been trying to dump it for some time. It was a half hearted effort on Apple's part that really spelled the doom of Hypercard, and who can blame them? It wasn't exactly a profit center!

Bob


On Jul 28, 2011, at 3:00 PM, Chipp Walters wrote:

> Timothy,
> 
> I'm not sure I agree with this statement. Apple, with all it's marketing
> prowess, and free version of HC, and included on every Mac, with no
> competition from the Internet, and seriously hyped by all, still couldn't
> make it work.
> 
> Let's not forget, HC was a TCP/IP stack away from BEING a first browser (
> http://www.isegoria.net/2008/05/hypercard-what-could-have-been/), so I'm
> don't think it could happen again-- though of course I would be rooting for
> it!
> 
> On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 3:40 PM, Timothy Miller <
> gandalf at doctortimothymiller.com> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> There's no obvious reason the "HyperCard revolution" could not happen
>> again. I'd love to see it.
>> 
>> 
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