Comments on: HyperCard Bibliography 0.1

By: DaveH

DaveH — Thu, 19 May 2005 17:44:51 +0000

Adams, Douglas. 1991. The complete hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy. ISBN: 1559401834; Being the Voyager expanded book of the first four books of the trilogy. Santa Monica, CA : Voyager Co.

Adams, Douglas. 1993. Mostly Harmless. ISBN: 1559403691; Being the Voyager expanded book of the fifth and last of the trilogy. Santa Monica, CA : Voyager Co.

By: Matthew Schmeer

Matthew Schmeer — Tue, 03 May 2005 18:42:21 +0000

Cool project! I was delighted to see my own works included, so I thought I’d give addittional infos on Nos. 47, 48, 49, & 50, which can still be downloaded here:

http://staff.jccc.edu/schmeer/mws/

No. 47’s date is 1998; modified and re-released in 1999. Technically, this isn’t a creative work as much as it is a bad practical joke.

No. 48’s date should be 1997. Although authored in 1996, the stack was released the following year.

No. 49′ s creation date is 1994; modified and re-released in 1997.

No. 50’s creation date is 1994; modified and re-released in 1997.

Publisher information for all four listing by Matthew Schmeer should be St. Louis, MO, Poetry Ink Productions.

Also, you should be on the lookout for a series of stacks created by John Freemyer, who created some fantastic interactive stories and unfolding multimedia projects during the mid 1990s. I’ll search my archives and see if I can pass along the info to you.

By: nick

nick — Mon, 02 May 2005 21:21:40 +0000

Thanks, Diane, I’ve added that one!

By: diane greco

diane greco — Mon, 02 May 2005 17:17:01 +0000

One that’s missing:

Burnett, Christopher. _Agents of Time_. 1994.

I don’t think it was ever published.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Thu, 28 Apr 2005 03:46:22 +0000

I used hypercard to run a couple of Art Projects I did in Graduate School. My final exhibition was run on a Mac 660AV using HyperCard to randomly show a hundred images and words while a real time video image of a running clock was superimposed on top. The Stack also used a XCMD to create a multitrack audio loop that filled the exhibition hall with a collage of music and spoken words.

I later used the same computer, this time on loan from Steve Wozniak to power 13 computer monitors that randomly showed words an phrases at a speed where things were just a blur of light. If you relaxed your eyes the words and phrases would appear.

I really miss Hypercard. RIP Hypercard, RIP.

Stephen

By: Stephen Ingram

Stephen Ingram — Tue, 26 Apr 2005 15:08:50 +0000

This is a very good idea. Some of my first programming was done in Hypercard. I can vaguely remember typing commands like:
go stack short name of me
I loved it when people left their stack code exposed and you could hold down a key (option?) and click on buttons to edit/examine their work.

If you could get access to the old AOL (it was originally just for Macs, remember?) Hypercard archive, this list would explode. I wonder if they saved all that stuff?

By: ben vershbow

ben vershbow — Mon, 25 Apr 2005 20:44:32 +0000

Thanks for getting this started! FYI, the Institute for the Future of the Book currently exhibits selections from the Voyager Expanded Books and CD-ROM series. It’s a little rough right now, but we’ve made demos available for most of the featured titles.

By: Adam

Adam — Mon, 25 Apr 2005 20:10:33 +0000

I used HyperCard in middle school too! My fondest memory was creating a stack that I disguised as a folder called “Games” (by changing the icon.) When clicked, it would play a sound file of my voice (slowed down to disguise my identity) saying “Disk erased. Thank you for using Disk Bomb” and play an animation of a bomb exploding. I proceeded to put it on the desktop of a few computers in the middle school computer lab, and watched the fun from afar.

By: Jake

Jake — Mon, 25 Apr 2005 05:09:42 +0000

Apparently HyperCard abuse wasn’t solely confined to my Jr High :) I have many great memories tied to HyperCard, not surprisingly most of which involve hijacking existing stacks or creating games while in class. The only ones I solidly remember are my “Putt Putt goes to the chop shop” game, and, similar to your frog-poking one, a game by my friend in which you were supposed to try and unbutton a girls blouse, causing a large message to appear on the screen in hopes of getting the player in trouble.

By: Darius Kazemi

Darius Kazemi — Sun, 24 Apr 2005 17:01:41 +0000

I miss Hypercard. It was part of the middle school curriculum where I grew up. While we were forced to make Hypercard stacks about how salt affects the conductivity of water, I, being a little computer whiz, would finish the assignment early and then make secret games. As I was 13 years old, these games would be gross-out vignettes. I remember one in particular where you would beat up a frog by clicking on him: I distinctly remember interpreting the “hand” mouse icon and thought it would be good for frog-poking.