Yes, it's sad that so many weren't "re-purposed" (i.e. adapted for other platforms) and so evaporated. Warner New Media did a fantastic one on a late Beethoven string quartet (Op 131) that was definitely HyperCard based. Presumably totally dead now.
In fact after CD-ROMs in general turned out to be not the money-makers producers had hoped for, a lot of stuff just disappeared. For months I have been trying to negotiate with a US publisher who produced a very elaborate CD-ROM on a literary theme which can still be run on Mac OS 9 but is otherwise invisible. They are sitting on all the rights to the materials. I want to re-write it as an iPad app (using LC, what else?) but so far they prefer not to talk to me. Sad. Graham On 3 Jan 2013, at 15:16, Richard Gaskin wrote: > Tom Bodine wrote: >> Hey Colin. This holiday the kids (now grown) wanted to fire up some favorite >> programs on their childhood Mac. The box of wares from the 90s included a >> Voyager CD: "Donald Norman: Defending Human Attributes in the Age of the >> Machine." And there you are in the credits as programmer. Everyone >> especially loves the Gallery of Unfindable Things. Makes me glad I keep an >> older Mac in running order. > > In my fantasy alternate reality we all have enough time on our hands to > convert the history of HyperCard-based works to LiveCode, so they can live > again and for the foreseeable future. > > I realize it's not likely, but hey, I can dream, can't I? > > So many good works from Colin and others are lost to us each year away from > machines capable of running them.... > > -- > Richard Gaskin > Fourth World > LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com > Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com > Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/FourthWorldSys > _______________________________________________ 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
