I used to do a lot with HyperStudio…and have many old stacks. Has he tried the free trial of HyperStudio 5? … I’m not sure it will work with current MacOS. I’ve not tried it on windows. In my basement, somewhere, I have an old mac that should run HyperStudio. I can do some checking next week when I have some time.
take care, randy > On Sep 24, 2025, at 12:57 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > I think I figured it out. The stack has an extension ".stk" which I shouldn't > have ignored. It appears that's a HyperStudio stack. When viewed in a text > editor there are no decipherable words, it's all gibberish. That's why when I > added a creator and type so I could open it in HyperCard in an emulator, HC > also said it wasn't a HyperCard stack. > > Even if I could find a copy of HyperStudio to run in the emulator, I wouldn't > know what to do with it. I feel sorry for the guy, there are 9 stacks > containing his entire family history. All gone. > > If anyone here thinks they could help I'm sure he'd appreciate it. > > -- > Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com > HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com > On September 24, 2025 2:26:08 AM Mark Waddingham via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > >> On 2025-09-24 05:36, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote: >>> Actually, maybe the resource fork isn't the problem. What are the usual >>> reasons a stack isn't a stack? >> >> So I don't think the engine has ever looked at the resource fork of >> hypercard stacks when it tries to load them... >> >> The only reason a stack isn't considered a stack is if the engine can't >> load it - i.e. there's an error while parsing the binary data. >> >> Its possible the stack has been compressed with Stuff-It or similar >> (which was quite common as doing so allowed the resource fork to be >> preserved alongside the data fork, but without the resulting file having >> a resource fork) - if that is the case here then that would be why the >> engine doesn't like it. >> >> If you send the stack to support we can take a quick look :) >> >> Warmest Regards, >> >> Mark. >> >> -- >> Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ >> LiveCode: Build Amazing Things >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
