OK, well sorry I guess. I me be slightly obsessed with the history lately, and since this was already an off-topic thread, I felt a need to inject some accurate (as accurate as I can gather anyway) history.
On Mon, Oct 25, 2021 at 6:05 PM Bob Sneidar via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ 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
