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HyperCard Comes Back From the Dead to the Web

Posted by timothy on from the in-many-ways-it-never-really-went-away dept.

TedCHoward writes "On the heels of the recent mention of HyperCard comes the launch of a brand new site called TileStack. Cnet's Webware blog writes, 'The idea behind it is to bring old HyperCard stacks back to life by putting them on the Web, meaning you can take some of those long lost creations from the late '80s and early '90s and make them working Web apps. You simply upload them to TileStack's servers and they'll be converted and hosted for just you or the entire world to use once again... Since the service runs without Flash... TileStack is perfect for the iPhone and other devices that run on the Web.' They also have a video showing the upload process."

2 of 117 comments (clear)

  1. Re:But can we make new stacks? by PHPNerd · · Score: 5, Informative

    Oh yes. You can create new stacks. I was in the beta program, and it was really easy to use too.

  2. It is like magic. by freenix · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yes, because in the magical free software land, file formats never change and become incompatible, even over the course of time between hypercard and now.

    That's about right. Emacs still works the way it did in 1984, despite improvement. GCC, G77, LaTex, ImageMagick, Xfig, gnuplot, grace, StarOffice and just about any software you can think of still works with documents written at the time. Free software rarely wrecks a user's work.