I think it would be worth a shot though I don't hold out much hope. Apple was quite resistant to that idea in the past but of course they were still selling it...
Tim MacKenzie
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Apr 1, 2004 3:43 pm
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On Thu, 1 Apr 2004 00:58:49 EST, luckman341@... is alleged to have ... I think you've just summarized very nicely one huge reason why HyperCard is so cool:...
Lyle D. Gunderson
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Apr 1, 2004 4:04 pm
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I find it interesting that none of the major Mac e'zines have published any news about HyperCard's removal from the Apple Store. This event occurred about one...
... There already is a project for an open source HyperCard - not a knockoff, but a bit-for-bit compatible clone, completely open source, and available for Mac...
Hello Tim, Charles, and y'all, ... But perhaps, as heretical as this might seem, perhaps HC has to die in order to be resurrected. Perhaps the great...
Alain Farmer
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Apr 1, 2004 8:02 pm
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So HyperCard is finally dead? Steve Jobs' famous bull is constipated at last, and has ceased sh*tt*ng! ... Tony McCoy O'Grady ... "You spoke a little word of...
Hello Tim, Charles, and y'all, ... But perhaps, as heretical as this might seem, perhaps HC has to die in order to be resurrected. Perhaps the great...
Alain Farmer
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Apr 1, 2004 9:40 pm
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... Any estimates of how many deeply loyal HC users exist today? I mean, all over the world? Wild guess: If every one of them donated about ten bucks, it would...
... Just a note: I like Rev, and I think it has a good future. Loads of plugin libraries, and every main stack is a player (move afoot currently to establish...
Does anyone know of a good opensource pascal decompiler? I understand hypercard was written in pascal and think it's worth looking at the idea of decompiling ...
Hi Judy and others, What can you do? First of all, help me to stop others who are shouting wild ideas. Not that I don't understand how much fun it is to shout...
... I thought I'd drop in one more time to clarify. This isn't a 'project in planning' but a dedicated project already long underway. ... (Though they aren't...
... Well Mark, these are line of people who have a lot of enthusiasm, let us use it... ... I disagree with you that I have to convince you or send you my...
Deivy Petrescu
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Apr 2, 2004 2:48 pm
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At 9:12 AM -0500 on 4/2/04, Deivy Petrescu wrote ... I agree. The thrust of our earlier attempt to put forward a shareholder proposal was that carbonizing HC...
Am a newbie to this forum. Been watching it for a couple of months, now. Very interesting and knowledgeable site. I’m impressed. I’m also laboriously...
"Save HyperCard" is a bad idea. If Jobs wasn't gonna assign any of Apple's precious engineering resources to HC *before* they removed it from Apple's Official...
Cubist@...
Apr 2, 2004 10:42 pm
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... Hi, a friend on the list pointed this message out to me. I think I must clarify that I am not pursuing Joker any further. I offered it to the FreeCard...
Hello Mark, ... I laud you for your effort and attitude. If anything is to come of this, it will take nothing less than that kind of level-headed professional...
Hello Deivy, ... This approach has been done a number of times already. It will not move Apple. At the hands of Steve and Co., HyperCard is dead. What Mark is...
Yup. You sent me an earlier email about it (first of the year?) and it completely fell out of my mental in-box. While we're on the subject, should I be...
... I second the motion. Suggestion: someone start a web poll to feel the pulse of the community at this very important juncture. Alain F ...
Alain Farmer
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Apr 3, 2004 3:26 am
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Hi Lou, I think it depends upon whether you use color and/or alot of x-thingies (many of which, it probably should be noted, won't be necessary in Rev...). If...
The 'where' is probably important too -- just doing it on this list would probably be pointless. Need to get some 'new blood' as it were to weigh in on the ...
I'm willing to do anything I can to help that effort. Oops, what effort you are wondering. I mean the opensource campaign. Not sure what it means, but if it...
luckman341@...
Apr 3, 2004 6:12 am
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... Right. AFAIK, HC 2.4.1 is all C, including the linked externals (like Picture and Movie with QT) Ken N....
At 7:10 PM -0800 on 4/2/04, Judy Perry wrote ... Ah hah! I thought it was you, but I wasn't sure and I didn't want to take the time to try to find the earlier...
Is Anthony DeRobertis here? I remember he managed to figure out exactly what HyperCard was doing to encode a password for the 'ask password' command. I was...