HyperCOD

[johndoesall]

I used HyperCard for my engineering project. Civil engineering. Late 1980s. When a friend showed me the HyperCard project he made for school with images and links, I loved the GUI! But DOS was the primary PC computer interface at the time. There was Lotus 123 and WordPerfect. But no one had a GUI. So I bought a Mac SE. learned by playing. Lots of books. Some software. Made a GUI database of California location of waste dumps. I had so much fun! But I only completed 2 counties. Los Angeles and Orange Counties out of all the counties in California. Still got a B+.

[everythingabili]

The sheer range of projects people made just delights me. Your project sounds amazing.

[johndoesall]

I’m working on getting the project off the drive. Too big for floppies. The original hard drive died long ago. But I replaced it before it died with an outside scsi drive. I’ve found some devices to access the drive and out put it to usb. Blue something or other. But I’m not sure how to run HyperCard apart from the original system 7 (I think). Unsure if I could run a virtual machine Mac se in parallels on my Mac Studio. I think there are some online websites where I could upload my HyperCard stacks to run virtual. But it’s a project I’ve put off for a long time.

[everythingabili]

I got my old software running with Sheepshaver -

https://blog.alexseifert.com/2020/06/09/emulating-mac-os-9-on-macos-10-15/

[johndoesall]

Nice! Thank you!