Drunk on 90's computing nostalgia, hacking on After Dark, HyperCard, and Hotline.
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@OffTheBooks Hey, that's awesome. I haven't come across as many stacks using MacinTalk as I expected, so point me at them if you can.
Card 15 of the Passing Notes stack from "If Monks had Macs" is one that blew my developing mind many years ago!
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@awhite This is a tough one to support as it uses XCMDs to open a bunch of external files including movies. Looks like a really interesting stack, but I'll need to reserve this as an end-game goal as I work through the lower hanging fruit.
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@awhite Thanks for letting me know. I'll check it out and see what's missing.
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@csilverman @eniatitova I’ve played around with Decker a bit. It seems great! I need to spend some more time with it.
Haven’t heard of ViperCard, but I’ll check it out.
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@palomakop Please let me know if you run into any problems. It’s difficult to test the adventure game stacks because I have to figure out how to play through them!
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@gparker @csilverman @root42 Ah, I'm super slow to recognize that you are Greg of Sealie Software. I sent you an email a couple weeks back re: Fringe Player, but maybe it was relegated to your spam folder. Your comment regarding the pain of the dynamic shared library was prescient, but after months of head+wall banging I've made big progress in getting most modules through 4.0 running! I'm really close to sharing this project.
If you like HyperCard, or are HyperCard-curious, I'd like to share an early build of my HyperCard player for modern macOS, "Stacks". It runs stacks natively: no emulator, sound (with MacinTalk speech synthesis!), period-accurate typography.
There's an in-app browser for the Internet Archive's HyperCard collection, so you can explore thousands of stacks and run them with one click.
Still early days with rough edges, but I'm having fun with it. Please report bugs!
Ugh, a New York-level density of Bugs all up in my desktop. Get off my Control Strip! 😡
Exploring the Final Frontier of third party module support...
Finally making some headway on this after months of wheel-spinning. 😵💫
What if... #pico8 #tweetcart, but macOS screensaver??
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@ireneista Hope you enjoy! Some of the sounds from this game are still etched in my brain after all these years 😀
I'm happy to share the first bite-sized output from my After Dark hijinks:
Lunacy, a Lunatic Fringe After Dark module player for modern Apple platforms.
Run an emulated Motorola 68k CPU! Fly around and shoot things like it's 1993! Chase a spot on the global leaderboard!
Thanks to Ben Haller for creating Lunatic Fringe.
Thanks to Greg Parker for carrying the torch through the PPC+Intel years with Fringe Player.
I hope this sparks a bit of joy.
Thanks, but not the high res After Dark 3.0 box art I was looking for.
(anyone out there have high res box art for 1 and 3?)
I'm making steady progress on my macOS HyperCard player and feeling good about this in-app Internet Archive browser with search and "click to play" functionality.
Sadly stacks on IA are not stored in a consistent file format, so I have to brute force download the Mini vMac disk image and rip the stacks out of HFS, but it's only a couple MB of overhead and cached client-side.
Huge thanks to the @internetarchive for making the search API publicly available and free. ❤️
"Like an index card, you say..." 🤔
"Learn HyperCard" has been on my todo list for decades, but I may be approaching it from the wrong direction. 😅
"Press Caps Lock to enter interactive mode"
Life II is a special snowflake among After Dark modules: the only one that uses mouse input, I think?
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Also, this Bestiary screen: ❤️❤️❤️
