[kremmit]

Why does Apple still sell this? It died MANY years ago.

[larkost]

Because some large groups still use it, and want to buy it. I wish they would move it to their collection of freeware (alongside system 7) to send the signal that it is well and truly dead... but it is not really a big deal.

[Samad]

Any chance of a brave individual to implement a GNU implementation of HyperCard? FreeCard seems to be a fairly inactive project.

[parallax]

If there was a large base of individuals that still wanted a development tool like HyperCard, I'd gladly take up the project.

[osxisfun]

>Any chance of a brave individual to implement a GNU implementation of HyperCard?

I'm sure if you could find enough people that would pay for his rent, groceries and etc for a year you could find a person.

Why not just contribute to the free card project instead?

[larkost]

There are already three or four "HyperCard successors" out there, all of them commercial: SuperCard, FreeCard (might not be alive) and RuntimeRevolution (as mutated almost to unrecognizability) are just a few.

[Samad]

HyperCard has the tradition of having a hobbyist/hacker audience. The problem with SuperCard, MetaCard, and RunRev is it is too expensive for the common hacker. FreeCard has a lot of great ideas, but a Java implementation? I don't think the HyperCard community would be willing to switch to a Java app. Let's not even mention its inactivity. (The idea of a stack converter to a Java applet is a really awesome idea.) I think a lot of people feel that FreeCard will never reach the point of a working, solid implementation. Yes, there must be one person to drive the project. HyperCard is not the most sophisticated application out there. It should not be too difficult for a single individual, by him or herself, to write a clone in Cocoa.

[Angus_D]

Dreamcard from Runtime Revolution is about the same price as HyperCard, no?