HyperCard 2.2

@papa: You would probably be better off (on that Cube of yours) using HyperCard 2.3 with updates to 2.4.1 or simply "cut to the chase" and install HyperCard 2.4.1, directly.

Thanks for the pointer. I just found the later HC versions myself browsing through the apps section. I downloaded 2.2 because I didn't bother looking beyond the first page of results when I ran a search on "hypercard". Silly me. (Though the reason HC 2.4.1 would get sorted to the bottom of page 6 is a mystery.)

This will be awesome to play with, maybe even get my kids hooked on programming.

The HyperCard Tour stack is not included in this package even though there is a link on the home card. Is the Tour stack available somewhere else?

For posterity, here is a HyperCard survival guide, courtesy of MikeTomTom in response to a question about "The Manhole":

With most Macintosh programs the keyboard command to Quit a running program,
is "Command + Q".

With HyperCard, additional keyboard commands you might like to try, can be:
"Command + H" = Return to the Home Stack
"Command + R" = Show recent cards you've visited (and go to any one of them)
"Command + M" = Show Message window (type one line commands and execute them)

Depending on the current stack you are in, a stack's programmer may have scripted these commands to not execute. "Command + Q" should always work.

Go to last card of the Home Stack, set your user level to 5 (with a full version of HyperCard only, not the Player [exception]) and set Blind Typing to True.

Level 5 in HyperCard allows you to program stacks using HyperTalk and Blind Typing allows you to execute single line commands without evoking the Message Window. For example: A single line command such as "show menubar" (without quote marks) and then Enter or Return key to execute, may be useful in menu-less situations. Again, a stack's programmer may have scripted certain commands & even Blind Typing to not execute.

I made a lot stuff with HyperCard at its time (some stuff created also in the IIGS version, which knows color from the beginning) , but when it became abandoned by Apple, I switched over to Realbasic, which is still current now Xojo.

Edited by IIGS User, 2014, May 09