stacks regularly updated for learning writing and calculating for my children (1 of them with down-syndrom)
stacks to collect and administer informations and thoughts for a comprehensive study
-D-30163 Hannover, Germany
HyperCard is very easy to learn and yet has very powerful capabilities, certainly in conjunction with numerous XCMDs and XFCNs.
It can be mixed with AppleScript scripts which makes it even more powerful. By using AppleScript dialogs in HyperCard one can also take advantage of the new navigational features.
-Nuenen - Netherlands
Apple won my heart when they bundled
every Mac with HyperCard. For me, HyperCard
became the most important tool on the
Mac. HyperTalk was amazingly easy to learn.
I've scripted solutions for my professional
research projects, publishing business,
databases, and websites. There wasn't
anything it couldn't do. Apple would be
wise to further support HyperCard.
-Fremont, CA
HyperCard does an amazing job as a CGI. Since text manipulation is most of the work in a CGI HyperCard is perfect for the task. Easy to use and has an interface, unlike AppleScript. Plus a million other things.
-Simi Valley CA. 93064
I have used HyperCard from the beginning for the simple power it provides as a searchable database. I have close to 11 years of correspondence with friends and family stored in HyperCard. I love it.
-Tsukuba Japan
It is easy to use and customise to suit your own needs. The HyperCard Home card is my Home which organise all my files and works.
-Brisbane
My colleagues and myself have created several stacks for use in our 8th grade science classes. One simulates exploration of an unknown planet, another a fossil dig, and a third the chirp of crickets and a rattlesnake. Dessert topping!
-Mesa, AZ 85204
I have developed a HyperCard stack that runs my entire B&W darkroom. It
records each exposure I make with my enlarger and controls the time the lamp
is on via a BSR X-10 device interface on the serial port. The stack provides
audio feedback to time the development, as well as controls the secondary
exposure timing and duration for solarization. In addition, it records the
usage on my chemical baths to alert me when the fixer (for example) needs
replacement.
-Middletown, CT 06457
I use HC as Handy Database and AutoCreation tool of Web pages.
It has very strong and flexible for making such a tiny custom application.
My friend, who is dentist, uses HC to maintain his Clients Data.
Recently, he wanted to buy new PC.
HyperCard is the BIG reason why he bought PowerBook, not VAIO.
-Tokyo,Japan,142-0064
I developped Hypercard stacks for: automatic bank account tracking, mail tracking, tasks scheduling, quotes collection, stock sell/buy decision and many more. HC is my favorite tool for file manipulations and generally as a Mac customization tool. HC fills the gaps between all other applications. Port HC to OS X, please!
-F-01210 Ferney Voltaire
HC simply taught me how to program and thus made my living! As MM Director came along, it was no effort at all to switch to Lingo. Sadly, Apple never made a Windows runtime, so what could I do, given the needs of the market? I would embrace it immediately!
-Purkersdorf/Austria/3002
HyperCard is one of the best tools for authoring materials for computer-assisted language learning (CALL). For its flexibility, ease of use, and ability to incorporate text, graphics, audio and video, it is unsurpassed as a tool for CALL.
Claire Bradin Siskin
Director, Language Laboratory
University of Pittsburgh
-Pittsburgh, PA
I am an internist who uses one
of the best CD-ROM medical textbooks
on the market--"UP-to-Date"---all
created on Hypercard!!! 30,000+ pages
of quarterly updated material!
-Miami FL 33156
"Briefly describe, in fifty words or less, why you use Apple HyperCard:"
Is what the site said to say. I can't I don't use it but my doctor does, so
do several other of my clients. I am actually hoping Apple shoots itself
in the foot by discarding hypercard. I hate supporting Apples and as soon as
Apple kills Hypercard I am going to sell my doctors office machine running
Windows or Unix Client tied to our Linux products or my competior is going to
sell them Windows Client tied to NT.
Steve if you are listening hypercard and it availability still sells
Macs and why I don't have any real affection for Macs, We need you to compete
and keep Microsoft busy. After all if Apple didn't exist Microsoft could focus
attention on the rest of us
-Waterloo, Ontario, N2J-1n8
As a teacher, I can make custom adapted data keeping solutions for MY kind of gradekeeper, MY idea of a test question bank. I also have all my important data in stacks that will always allow me to extract it in just about any way I want.
-Jenkintown, PA 19046
I wrote a HyperCard stack called "HyperInfo Intelligent Knowledge Object Organisation System: HTML File Organiser" back in 1995 to store and manage thousands of HTML files of my websites. I have 2 issued software patents, 3 patents pending, and I am now working on 2 more patents. The text of the patents include HyperCard scripts coded in HyperTalk as the implementation of the software inventions. I also wrote with my 3 kids "HyperGames", a HyperCard stack jam-packed with more than 100 games and useful utilities.
-Hull (Québec) CANADA
I started programming multimedia projects with Hypercard a long time ago.
I used it to control videodisc players for small and big projects.
I don't use Macs anymore for many good and bad reasons,
but I'm still looking for something similar to Hypercard.
Hypercard should run on every operating systems.
-Montréal/Canada
I use HyperCard to keep a database of over 1000 drawers in a community college chemistry teaching laboratory. Each has it's own card and this way I can keep track of the student occupant, the equipment and the locker combination.
Scripts update the contents and lock each time the occupant is changed. The interface is so intuitive that student workers can master it in a few minutes.
In addition the inventory of over 6000 chemicals is kept in a stack, with easy scripted updating so I can always tell at a glance what ordering I need to do.
Without HyperCard. this job would be a hard job.
-Phoenix, AZ 85013
I have used HyperCard since it was first introduced. I have purchased commercial stacks and created several of my own. I use these daily and would be greatly inconvenienced if the the program were no longer able to run on my Mac. It's the most useful program I have, (after Appleworks): it's truly the "Swiss Army Knife" of software.
-El Cerrito, CA 94530
I have built my law practice on it. It's powerful, flexible, easy to learn. and FAST. Having NO previous knowledge of computers, I designed and wrote from scratch my calendar, timekeeping, billing, legal research, and contacts stacks.
-Dallas, TX 75218-1038
I run a large semi-scientific web site which constantly needs upgrading with new pages (research abstracts) being added daily. This is a non-commercial site with a large reference encyclopedia, and I can't spend much time on the maintenance.
I've mirrored the web-site in my Mac, using dozens of separate HyperCard stack as the primary storage. These then generate all the new HTML pages, and they upgrade the primary and secondary indexes automatically.
I just couldn't maintain such a site without Hypercard, so I won't be upgrading to the new machines or the new operating system.
-Lindfield, NSW, 2070 Australia
music education
-Dossobuono (VR) ITALY 37062
for all ! - presentation in advertising agency, fotolaboratory tool, office, in projects of art performance, as database for my negatives, and so on.Its like a pocketknife from Switzerland. It runs on EVERY Mac. To write programms with Hypertalk is very easy - you can make what YOU want. I need it !
-60594 Frankfurt / Germany
I've used HyperTalk to develop an extensive collection of French language exercises, with sound and images. My students do over 150 of these exercises each semester, and submit them to me via a simple e-mail XCMD.
The XCMD quit working at sys 9.1, and now it looks as if with OSX, this project, started in 1994 and representing hundreds of hours' work since then, will have to go in the dumpster.
There was basically nothing I wanted to do that I couldn't do in HyperTalk.
-norton ma 02766
Elegance and ease of use is why I bought my Mac SE in 1988. Hypercard came with it and allowed me as a non-programmer to creatively develop ways of storing data that I could easily adapt, expand, and modify as required. As a designer, I think and work graphically, and Hypercard works WITH me and FOR me and does not get in the way of my thinking. I still rely on Hypercard on my current iMac for business job cards and records, contact lists, equipment inventory, etc. and wrote a thesis using four interconnected stacks to organise my research. BL**DY BRILLIANT. Keep it going PLEASE APPLE!
-Riverside, Tas. Australia
Of all the software I've endured, HyperCard's still my choice for developing anything quickly and efficiently. Having owned computers since the Steves' were barely out of garages, I've had to learn MANY (now useless, PC & Mac) languages, databases, and operating systems -- corporate merry-go-round. My own business has 9 Macs and still growing. Fight for HyperCard! Apple, support users who support you!
-Agana, Guam, USA 96932
In the early 1990's it seemed to me that HC was the perfect medium for making language learning software (CALL) and I began making CALL for Japanese . From 1993 I included an option in a post-graduate diploma for teachers of Japanese to learn to make their own software for Japanese. Last year I was funded by the university to run a training programme for teachers of other languages. We have now supported our own degree programme with HyperCard software on CD. I can not understand why Apple wants to let such a marvellous programme wither and die.
- Levin, New Zealand. 5500
I maintain my web site (http://www.scripteur.com/) with HyperCard (65% HyperCard, 25% Frontier 5.0, 10% AppleScript).
-Montreuil/France
I use it for extensive stock analysis and charting. I have been disgusted with Apple computers and the only reason I buy them is the ability to use Hypercard. With the death of Hypercard, I will NEVER buy another iMac!
Quite common for Apple to make "irrational" decisions and this will not be the last time either!
I know 2 more people with 2 iMacs each who claim that they will never buy an iMac again if HC doesn't work on OS X.
Quite frankly, if what I spent years to develop (the HC stacks) is not going to be supported from Apple anymore, it is time to give the kiss of death to Apple...
Anthony Kouvousis
-Phoenix, AZ 85032
I have used Hypercard in my equipment rental business for the last 8
years, and there is no other software that even comes close to what I can do.
The flexibility allows me to change things easily, while still having the
power to maintain a large database and create rental contracts quickly. As
Apple computers have become faster, the software keeps working better. Apple
must bring it to OS X, or many users will be left out in the cold.
-Santa Barbara, CA 93105
I use hypercard in my business that requires multitasks at multiple rates
that change from customer to customer.
Hypercard has allow customization that is not available in any other software
program I've seen on the market for my industry. Similar software usually has
to be written sloppily and costs our industry four to six times the cost of
creative hypercard software.
-Santa Barbara, CA 93105
I switched to the Mac at the time Hypercard first arrived on the
scene. In the mid-1980s I had sketched out (but not implemented) a
flexible and general purpose "Natural Language Research Environment"
for assisting multimedia and text based scholarship. I projected
years of development time (using something like LISP), but did not
pursue it as I could not justify taking time away from my substantive
research. When Hypercard came out, it became clear that this
"erector set" and its powerful scripting language would cut
development time substantially. Hypercard is far from perfect as a
platform for developing research tools, but its support for quick and
easy development makes it the perfect environment for those of us who
have something better to do with our time, but who also want an
easily customizable work environment.
Over the years, I have developed and refine what is now known as the
"Workbench." It is a serious environment for computer-aided
scholarship scripted on top of Hypercard - which makes implementing
enhancements a pretty simple matter. A number of top researchers in
my field of Conversation Analysis and their graduate students are
currently using the Workbench (and therefore Hypercard) to pursue
their own research. Many years of research materials (digital audio
and more recently video, transcripts and annotations) have now
accumulated and have been associated within the ever-broadening
structures of the Workbench environment.
Gene Lerner
Associate Professor of Sociology and Linguistics
UC Santa Barbara
Lerner@soc.ucsb.edu
-UC Santa Barbara
I'm a minister and use Hypercard to keep track of the hymns we've
sung. It holds lyrics, topics, the last time its been used, even plays
the tune with a click of the button. It's easy to modify and very
flexible. Port it to OS X!
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More than any other application, HyperCard embodies the principles and
philosophy of the Macintosh.
It inspired and awakened in me an awareness that I will always treasure.
I still use it to retain that feeling.
God bless the HyperCard Team
-40215 DŸsseldorf Germany
Herebelow, a mail I sent to Apple:
Dear Apple,
I am the editor in chief of Le Mauricien daily, in Mauritius, Indian Ocean. I bought my first Apple Computer in 1990, a modest Classic (incidentally the most reliable equipment I ever had all through my Apple career until my recent acquisition of an iMac DVD 500 SE, having successively bought a LC 475, a Pizza Box PowerMac and a Performa 225). I started using HyperCard right from the beginning and this has been the most useful software and development tool I ever bought.
Whenever I renewed my equipment, the PC temptation was always averted with the following simple argument: I will not buy a computer that does not support HyperCard. Besides creating, with MacPaint graphic tools, an interface that is today part and parcel of contemporary culture, Bill Atkinson gave to the Apple environment one of its most effective loyalty-catchers. And I simply cannot understand how come Apple can continue to look down on this huge HyperCard community.
Since 1996, in Boston, the much awaited HyperCard III was announced. We were kept lingering for months, years. At some point, Apple even asked for beta-testers but we were finally told the project was dropped. Now with Mac OS X, we're simply denied citizenship.
All through the Sculley/ Gilbert what not saga, when Apple seemed to be at lost as regards developing a really innovative hardware, people like us, HyperCarders, were among the staunchest supporters of Cupertino. Could we not, in turn, expect some consideration from Apple?
At least, allow HyperCard to be open-sourced. Will you allow SuperCard to catch this market which is far from being a niche market. We don't even ask for a powerful HyperTalk scriptable QuickTime. Simply upgrade HC to 8-bit colour and carbonize it for MacOS X.
Please
Gilbert Ahnee
Mauritius
-Quatre-Bornes/Mauritius
B/c it fulfills the promise of the Mac: to be intuitive, useful, and for the (creative) rest of us.
-Little Rock, AR 72212
As a Medical Doctor, I use it for storing all types of relevant information, but I also use it to write pieces of information for training purposes for my staff. I also use it for outlining and brainstorming (thinktank).
And I like it for its ease of use and unsophisticated appearance.
I don't understand why Mr.Jobs would abandon this wonderful utility - its the easiest approach to programming for people of my age (54 years).
Martin Bertha M.D.
Austria, Europe
-NeumarktStmk/A-8820
I would love to purchase Hypercard but it is much too expensive for me.
I use Hypercard player regularly but would prefer to make my own stacks and to learn scripting. I wish Apple would consider reducing the cost. It is $140 at the Australian AppleStore Website. A bit too heavy for me. I'm sure a lot of others would love to own the full version if it was more affordable.
Just my view.
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As a NON-programmer, and I mean NON, who can't even figure out Appletalk, I easily learned how to use Hypertalk to run 75% of my consulting business.
There isn't anything I wanted to do that I couldn't figure out how to do.
On the technical side I have completely automated the US Patent Classification system for my personal use.
On the non-techinal side I have automated both educational and very successful therapeutic games.
Hypercard is the only thing that absolutely marries me to Apple.
-Bethesda, MD 20817
I use HC on a every day basis within my small business with stacks i used to develop over 8 years. I manage correspondence, adress, mails and all technical documents from witin hypercard. I design stacks for technical simulation, bench test and data conversion between dxf, Postscript and Gerber data format.
HC is the only database, which do not store only plain data but processes, being able to show the results in text, drawing or sound.
A shame how apple go around with HC.
-FL-9492 Eschen
I use the database to record checking transactions, and as a platform for all future actions including a calendar. My kids and my wife still keep digging up old games I made from it and I have never forgotten how to script in it. It is the easiest mutable database I have ever encountered and that includes filemaker, excel or any microsoft product. I can still warp rings around other databasers, even with Hypercard's limited color aspects. gee I wish it could be developed further.!!
-Fairfield IA
I have used Hypercard since 1987 to schedule a group of 14 radiologists, who rotate among a dozen work sites, and who take night call and weekend call. Where each radiologist can work depends on the radiologist's subspecialty training, and interests, so that the rules specifying where each radiologist can work get quite complicated. Hypercard selects the appropriate radiologist for each work site and call duty, and totals the number of days per month and per year each radiologist works at each site, is on call, or is on vacation.
-Salem, OR 97302
I use HyperCard to maintain my running club's membership database. I love the flexibility and power of doing this in HyperCard. HyperCard's main problem has always been that Apple does not promote it well enough. If Apple won't maintain HyperCard, I hope they'll have the good sense to release the source code to the open source community.
-Atlanta, GA 30312
I use Hypercard, mostly the Address stack, as a generalized
information source. I also use it as a video archive source.
-Duvall/WA/98019
No other database application has that degree of versatility or permits that freedom of personal tailoring. I use it more than any other application, as a database system, in financial and navigational calculation, in graphic presentation and in the creation of games. Besides, it's the world's most painless introduction to programming.
-Sequim, WA 98382
Using Hypercard, Quicktime and various Hypercard add-ons, I've created interactive walkthrough environments (houses, a liquor store) that let you navigate anywhere in a 3D space complete with fully dynamic hotspots and real-time playback of any user's activity. Hypercard was also used for the authoring environment: specifying the navigatable floorplan, specifying hotspots and linking them to a product database and/or other processing actions.
-Toronto, Ontario
Chiefly to create small "games" or
puzzles as a hobby.
-Blackmans Bay, Tasmania. 7052