Crossroads

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OK - as is well-documented in these pages over the last six years, I've been trying to find some semblance of external organisation for my somewhat scattershot thoughts, which I hoped would remain principally in the analogue domain. But as I've mentioned before on a number of occasions, I've still got the itch to get back into the hybrid information domain of HyperCard, that woefully abandoned piece of Apple citizen-tech that was a work of true genius - and still remains impressively so - that was originally a freebie with every Mac computer back in the day [blog posts passim]. I've been scouring around the net for a long time to find an alternative solution to the fact that the only way I can run the original entails using a very old Mac and original disks, or running the original in emulation; neither of which are really practical.

I might have found something that will fill that curious void between analogue and digital: Decker; a free software package that runs fine on my old 2015 MacBook, and appears to emulate HyperCard pretty well on the face of it. We'll see what it's capable of in the next few days, and whether it has decent scripting abilities to match the old HyperTalk 2.0, that work of utter genius that enhances the original achievements of Bill Atkinson's HyperCard itself; the bible of which is pictured above. In the meantime I'm going to set up an SQL server of some flavour on my Linux laptop and look at using a higher level cataloguing system to interact with and enhance the analogue physical stuff that I'm tinkering with to organise my shit and my thoughts. As always, I'll keep you posted on any progress, if any...

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  1. Anonymous28 February 2026 at 14:38

    I'd like to run it on my 2015 MBP mate.
    ATB
    Joe

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