Comments on: All about the hypercard...

All about the hypercard...

mathowie — Thu, 24 Feb 2005 17:44:58 -0800

When Multimedia Was Black and White is a wonderful trip down memory lane, back when posters, music, games, and print layouts were done in crude black and white. Be sure to click on the little disk icons to see all the screenshots from old 80s apps.

By: thirdparty

thirdparty — Thu, 24 Feb 2005 18:34:36 -0800

Awesome. I used to design HyperCard stacks when I was a kid. It was the web before the web was the web.

By: adzm

adzm — Thu, 24 Feb 2005 18:35:46 -0800

Wow, this is a sweet link... such nostalgia. I had completely forgotten about HyperCard. Too bad it is still, IIRC, Mac-only software (and 100$).

By: carter

carter — Thu, 24 Feb 2005 18:42:44 -0800

Excellent, and lovely design to boot.

By: caddis

caddis — Thu, 24 Feb 2005 18:45:51 -0800

They accomplished some pretty amazing stuff considering the limitations.

By: blacklite

blacklite — Thu, 24 Feb 2005 18:48:24 -0800

This is absolutely great.

By: donovan

donovan — Thu, 24 Feb 2005 18:56:14 -0800

Thank you. I remember long ago attempting to create a HyperCard stack that I called "Donovan's Brain" which would contain "everything I knew." Ah . . . youth, naivete, floppy disks . . . I think I'm gonna choke up.

By: nj_subgenius

nj_subgenius — Thu, 24 Feb 2005 19:08:14 -0800

{puke}

By: Tlogmer

Tlogmer — Thu, 24 Feb 2005 19:09:01 -0800

I'm too young to remember most of that. For me the nostalgia trip was part two, When Bevelled Edges were Cool.

By: rfs

rfs — Thu, 24 Feb 2005 19:20:01 -0800

Sorry, but the first multimedia was a year earlier (1986), in 4096 colors, on the Amiga. I actually ran Hypercard under Amax on my Amiga, but wasn't very impressed.

By: Sticherbeast

Sticherbeast — Thu, 24 Feb 2005 19:59:03 -0800

(pours out some malt liquor for HyperCard) This actually makes me more than a little wistful. B&W multimedia reminds me of my dad, a gigantic computer and Mac geek who loved things like HyperCard. He actually died ruing that he'd miss the launch of what was to become OS X. Seeing his hobbies as "history" makes me feel, if not old, at least a little aged. It also reminds me of when new computer launches were actualyl something to get excited about. This is probably my own personal prejudice, but I remember when something like the IIfx was heralded as being BLAZINGLY FAST!!!!!323!#2!! in comparison to other Macs before it, but now each upgrade seems to be less of a quantum leap. I dunno. I miss the excitement.

By: bonaldi

bonaldi — Thu, 24 Feb 2005 20:18:07 -0800

My friend was the same, Sticherbeast -- he bought a PowerBook to replace his iMac, and was surprised how little he cared when compared to his excitment on replacing an SE/30 with a PB 5300. Back then, though, the differences were huge. A new mac would bring with it colour, or an astounding increase in speed, or the ability to actually run something like Quark or Photoshop. Now Safari just gets a bit quicker. It's not the same.

By: SisterHavana

SisterHavana — Thu, 24 Feb 2005 20:52:37 -0800

Great link. I am glad to see the mention of Cosmic Osmo. LOVED that game.

By: AccordionGuy

AccordionGuy — Thu, 24 Feb 2005 22:12:24 -0800

Mackerel (the company in the story) was my first workplace after graduating from Crazy Go Nuts University, and what a place it was! Be sure to read Cory Doctorow's piece, Burying the Fish, in which he documents the company's demise. Someday I will have recount the story of my first (disastrous) client meeting.

By: sciurus

sciurus — Fri, 25 Feb 2005 05:37:03 -0800

This is cool. *feels like a third grader again*