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Please, visit http://livecode.com/download/ and download the most recent version of LiveCode Community Edition (Open Source) for your OS: (Linux, MacOS X, Windows) If you visit this webpage: http://downloads.livecode.com/... you will find all downloads available, including stable public releases, release candidates and developer previews. Choose one of the stable releases and install it in your computer. Then, you will understand why many developers still cherish and remember fondly, it's first encounter with HyperCard. You could download Livecode's source code from Git: https://github.com/runrev/live... Learn about Livecode's quality controls at: http://quality.runrev.com/ By the way, HyperCard found it's way to many platforms in the form of clones: For Commodore Amiga, there was UltraCard (later renamed Foundation): http://www.dreamtimestudioz.co... For Linux, there was MetaCard (today Open Source LiveCode): http://www.metacard.com/ For Windows, Oracle Media Objects: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O...

http://www.metacard.com/
(although sold to runrev for commercial development, getting the old metacard IDE and heading over to yahoo groups, you will find some nice geeks continuing development of the free version)

http://www.hyperstudio.com/
It's been forever since they released a new version, and there is no Linux version of the software.

http://www.squeak.org/

It still exists and I would highly recommend it as well. anyone can turn out quick and dirty applications that do real work, without having to really understand anything other than ordering instructions. Metacard andRuntime Revolution being the best current examples. Rev is my favorite for doing alpha testa.

The one we used for one of our classes was MetaCard which is a cross-platform Hypercard with more features like color.

Have you ever looked at Metacard? It's like Hypercard without the braindamage. The only problem is the cost ($1000/seat).

Since HyperCard died and C++ didn't make life any easier, java is still so ugly duck, i turned to MetaCard for all my coding needs. It's HyperCard's next evolution - fast, easy, light and I know very few limits whether in number of platforms supported, compatibility, range of applicability, or even depth of project structure... You're limited only by your imagination with this product! Since the IDE is made out of itself, you can customize it to the gut like RunRevolution did.

I was on a UNIX project almost 10 years ago that used MetaCard to do this kind of thing. Haven't used it myself and I think it is limited to simulating a user running a GUI (and for creating demos, etc.), but it is cross-platform...

If your goal is multi-platform (Linux/Unix/Win32/MacOS) dev; client-side and/or server-side; GUI or not; net-enabled or not; IMHO you won't find another tool that MAKES YOU as capable, as QUICKLY, as MC can. The "key features" page on the MC Corp. site is worth a look:
http://www.metacard.com/pi2.html

If the goal is to go cross-platform while maintaining (improving, even) ease-of-development, check out Revolution, it lets you easily target Linux, BSD, Solaris, Windows, and Mac, in an environment that is easier than Visual Basic, but just as powerful. Also consider Revolution's older brother, MetaCard.

There are several products use the same language and object architecture as MetaCard. [See above link for list]

The product WinPlus, formerly Spinnaker Plus, has been discontinued by ObjectPlus Corporation. Oracle Media Objects (OMO), which was also based on the Plus technology, has also been discontinued. An early HyperCard workalike for Windows, Echelon's WindowCraft, was discontinued long ago largely because of the superiority of the Plus technology. Plus has in turn been surpassed by MetaCard.

MetaCard is also often compared with products like ToolBook, Director, Tcl/Tk, Perl, and Visual Basic because it can be used to develop the same kinds of products these other tools are used to develop.

get the message
put it in the box

There have always been HyperCard lookalikes, such as SuperCard , and MetaCard. Maybe one of those companies could breathe some life into it.
Maybe, also, it would generate more interest if it were a browser plugin.

Now there is Metacard (http://www.metacard.com), which is a capable clone that runs on Un*x, Windows and Mac, and is free to download for evaluation.

I've used it in numerous User Interface courses as an example of a prototyping environment for UI design and functionality.

Nobody ever failed to learn how to use it within two hours, not even designers who've never programmed. Which makes it similar in accessibility to FirstClass, which also has Mac roots.

/jeorgen

Might I suggest MetaCard? www.metacard.com It's cross-platform, (Solaris SPARC, Solaris x86, DEC Alpha, SGI IRIS, HP-9000/700, IBM RS/6000, SCO ODT, BSD UNIX, Linux Intel, LinuxPPC, Mac, Windows 3.1, 95, 98, NT [dunno about 2000 yet] ) , it's darn fast for a scripting program, and it's quite easy to use. Of course, it is scripting... and in my opinion, with the speed that MC has, that's good. I'm working on quite a few programs myself in it (games, actually) , and find it to be great for many utilities and such. For a cross-platform project, it's a dream. So... what do we all think of that? (this is my first post, too. Yay!)