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The final retail release of HyperCard, with the 2.4.1 patch for large HFS+ disk support.
Runs all HyperCard 2.x content on any 68k Mac running Macintosh System 6 or later. QuickTime is supported when available.
Runs great on PowerPC Macs, as long as the HyperCard stack's XCMDs are PowerPC friendly.
Can convert a subset of HyperCard 1.x stacks to HyperCard 2 format, provided they don't use much HyperTalk or rely on early XCMDs like the embedded VideoWorks II player.
In terms of new features, HyperCard 2.4 is a very incremental upgrade, introducing support for QuickTime 3.0 (including real-time scripting of QuickTime effects and playback), support for QuickTime VR scenes, and the capability to script connections to URLs via Internet Config.
It does introduce some nice patches to address the platinum UI introduced with Mac OS 8 and HFS+, so this might as well be the HyperCard you use for your Power Mac.
The 1st download is HyperCard 2.4b9.
The 2nd download is HyperCard 2.4b16.
The 3rd download is HyperCard Updater 2.4.1.
The 4th download is HyperCard 2.4.1.
See also: HyperCard 1.0.1, HyperCard Z1-1.2.2 (Australian), HyperCard DK-1.2.2 (Danish), HyperCard 1.2.5, HyperCard C1-2.0v2 (French), HyperCard 2.1b13 (Beta), HyperCard 2.1, HyperCard 2.2, HyperCard 2.3 + Addmotion II
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Archive.org/HyperCard Stacks:
https://archive.org/details/hypercardstacks
I have added HyperCard 2.4 from MacsRUS's archive.
This works fine on my Power Mac G4 Cube running OS J1-9.2.2 (or OS X with Classic). Thank you!
For posterity, here is a HyperCard survival guide, courtesy of MikeTomTom in response to a question about "The Manhole":
It's the best language for Macintosh development!
This includes LiveCard, PDF manuals (I have paper manuals from 2.2; these are from 2.4); and Acrobat Reader 3, as well as HyperCard.
An immense effort to put this up. But my HC v2.4.1 is only 11.1MB uncompressed, 5.6MB in Stuffit. Is there something exra in this ? The HC2.4.1 update.smi I have is 5.1MB.
Me too wants to say thank you for posting this and to all the people who seed the file. I was looking for it for a long time!!! ... And of course, my thanks goes also to Bill Atkinson for creating such a wanderful tool.
Oh my gosh! When I got my ( disfunctional ) SE/30, it came with a HyperCard disk. BROKEN. The SE/30's drives were BOTH DEAD. Now on my SE SuperDrive, I can finally resurrect it! THANK YOU!
~BrownyTCat
to whoever put this up I thank you, I have been looking for this for a long time!!!