I don't disagree but the point I was addressing was why Hypercard was abandoned, and how this related to the recent changes in RunRev pricing policy.
Bob S > On Oct 25, 2021, at 12:52 , Paul McClernan via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 25, 2021 at 11:18 AM Bob Sneidar via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: >> >> Or the lesson may be that when a product is not commercially produced, there >> is no incentive to keep it updated and improve it. The lesson may be that a >> free mainstream product is an eventually doomed product. >> >> Bob S > > Hypercard was commercially produced and updated in the 1990s. 1998 was > the last update (2.4.1), at the time Apple was planning to integrate > HC 3.0 on a system level as part of QuickTime 3. HC was still usable > via "Classic" mode in Mac OSX and available for purchase from Apple > for $49 until 2004. By 2004 there were a handful of clones available > all of which had more modern features than HyperCard, including > SuperCard (which is still available, but is apparently chained to > Apple's now defunct Carbon API) and MetaCard. Coincidentally (or not?) > I've gathered that was around the same time that RunRev came to be and > acquired the MetaCard engine(s). If you consider, which I do, > AppleScript as a HyperCard cousin of sorts, then HC is still, at least > residually, ingrained into current versions of macOS. Coupled with > XCode's interface builder and AppleScript Objective C (ASObjC), or > not, you can build native mac apps with it. As we are here, people > still fairly frequently bring up HyperCard, a software package > introduced 34 years ago, was available for 17 years, and spurred a > bunch of clones! Pretty darn good for a doomed, free (and then cheap), > mainstream product, IMO. > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
