Back to the Future with Hypercard

2007-12-25 Thread Richmond Mathewson
I just 'lifted' the following from the Yahoo Hypercard group: Brett Sher came across this video of a Computer Chronicles show about HyperCard (c. 1987). Bill Atkinson, Dan Winkler, Danny Goodman and others explain what HyperCard is, in a show sure to raise lots of

Re: Back to the Future with Hypercard

2007-12-25 Thread Stephen Barncard
This is incredible. Thanks. Nice to see our early HC heros in their prime, and their passion. sqb HyperCard (c. 1987). Bill Atkinson, Dan Winkler, Danny Goodman and others explain what HyperCard is, in a show sure to raise lots of nostalgia. http://www.archive.org/details/CC501_hypercard

Back to the Future with Hypercard

2007-12-25 Thread Richmond Mathewson
A word of warning to the wise; the 2 GB mpeg file at:- http://www.archive.org/details/CC501_hypercard needs a fair bit of post-processing if you want to view it on Quicktime. I used ffmpegX - http://homepage.mac.com/major4/ - and, the first time round got a squished image; i.e. the 640 x 480

Re: Back to the Future with Hypercard

2007-12-25 Thread Jeff Reynolds
Richard, thanks sooo much, wonderful piece! takes me back to grad school in molecular biology at berkeley when one of the post docs bought a mac on one of her grants. luckily she had no idea of what to do with it besides writing papers, i, on the other hand, devoured the thing! i had had

[OT] Does Ken have a long lost brother

2007-12-25 Thread Kay C Lan
Does Ken Ray have a brother he doesn't know about? Or is it the son of a son of thunder? Check these two sites: http://www.truenorthsoftware.com/Realbasic/download.html http://www.sonsothunder.com/home/home.htm The logos, the fonts, the colours, and even the developer tools... so similar