All this talk of old HyperCard stacks have got me all nostalgic and thinking. Wikipedia's article for HyperCard (which for all intents and purposes is the "official" HyperCard site: type apple.com/hypercard and see where that gets you) mentions HyperCard 3.0, officially unreleased but demoed in 1996, with full color support among them. With that said, does the alpha version of HC3.0 exist at all? I thought it might be a cool app to horse around with and maybe try to complete it somehow.
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2014, July 6 - 12:06am
#1
HyperCard 3.0
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2014, July 6 - 12:32am
#2
To the best of my knowledge this never progressed past a tech demo.
2014, July 6 - 6:24am
#3
To the best of my knowledge this never progressed past a tech demo.
My knowledge, too. That's sad to say about HyperCard 3.
2014, July 7 - 3:01am
#4
Same goes for me.
I think HyperCard was on Steve Job's "hit list" when he came back to head Apple. Maybe a personal grudge against Bill Atkinson et al, for voting him out in '84?
Anyway there was an effort by the HyperCard fan base at the time with petitions etc to keep it alive, but to no avail.
2014, July 7 - 6:31pm
#5
HyperCard had stalled for four years, probably because of the effort to get HyperCard integrated with QuickTime (which was what it looked like according to Wikipedia). By the time Jobs abandoned it in 2000, it had been five years since any major update and would need to be upgraded to Mac OS X, which was well underway by that time. If HyperCard was sold off instead of abandoned, I don't know what might have happened. Maybe that company would be advertising a HyperCard 6 by now, available through the App Store.
2014, July 7 - 9:52pm
#6
Well we do have http://livecode.com ... 
2014, July 8 - 2:45am
#7
What I couldn't understand was why Apple didn't (years before HyperCard's demise) port HyperCard IIGS to the Macintosh? HC IIGS had native built-in color which looked great (albeit within the 4 bit color limits of the IIGS).
HyperCard IIGS running in "Gus" a IIGS emulator.
Getting back to HyperCard 3.0, an interesting "TidBITS" condensed HyperCard history here. Which in turn has further links (most of which are dead or located via the Internet Archive).
A couple archived from the "Save HyperCard" campaigns of the time:
HyperActive: HyperCard Needs Your Help
Mac Dev: The Death of HyperCard?
iHUG: "Why We Use HyperCard".
2014, July 6 - 2:54pm
#8
Bummer. 