Whiners

Good God. Mac people can be such whiners.

[Bernard Becker] Well, if Classic Apps don't work on Intel Macs, this is the end of everything ever done in HyperCard, the Application that was promised to ship with every Mac forever.

It also means the end of our application, and 3000 Mortage Brokers who use it, as well as hundreds of users inside major banks.

Apple never made HyperCard native, so HyerCard, and every stack ever made, will not run on any future Macs. That's sad.

[MacInTouch Reader] Lack of classic means no Hypercard. As I run my life on Hypercard, that means I'm done with new Macs. And so is my business, with its 5 employees each with Macs, running everything on Hypercard. Luckily, there are vast quantities of old Macs out there, running stable high quality software to do everything I need. And, no more upgrade hassles! Life is good.

I, rather unfortunately, know way more about Hypercard than a normal person should. Hypercard was introduced with version 6 of the MacOS. System 6, people. It had not been updated since version 2.2, introduced in 1992. 1992! Hypercard 3.0 does not count. That was vapor at its best.

MacOS X was introduced in 2001 -- nine years after Hypercard entered its long, last sleep. No mater how hopeful were the Hypercard loyalists, the introduction of OS X, an entirely new OS, should have been a clear indication that Hypercard was finally and utterly dead. Even so, thanks to huge effort on Apple's part, Hypercard (and many other ancient MacOS applications) run well enough in the Classic environment.

But, Good God people, if MacOS 9 is dead, surely you should start thinking about alternatives to Hypercard.

Fast forward to 2006, five years after OS 9 died, fourteen years after Hypercard died, and people are still complaining that Hypercard stacks won't run, this time on a computer with an entirely different processor architecture.

Let it go. The software is dead. There are plenty of alternatives. Take your "I won't buy any more Macs" bullshit and go away. If you are bitching about a product that hasn't been updated in fourteen years and hasn't been available for two, you are probably such a cheap bastard that you were unlikely to buy new hardware in any case.