THE HYPERCARD CENTER

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I've loved HyperCard for many years and used it extensively in the 1990s. I recently worked on a simple HyperCard stack and wanted to webify the HyperTalk Reference stack for easier access. This is my #MARCHintosh2022 project.

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Current Status

June 11, 2025: Rest in Peace, Bill Atkinson. Bill designed and wrote HyperCard. Thank you for that and everything else you created to make our world. Obituary at The Register.

I'm working on a new version of the HyperTalk Reference pages. There are a lot of formatting errors that I'm fixing and the work will be posted to a GitHub repository.

March 24, 2022: This is a work in progress and most of the documentation formatting is pulled from the HyperCard stack with all its quirks. There's a lot of mixed up formatting that I'm hand-editing. I've integrated the Placeholder docs from the Help Extras stack so, for example, all the options for effect are listed in the entry for visual.

Follow me at:

• Bluesky @charkes.bsky.social
• Mastodon @charkes@mastodon.online

HyperTalk Reference HyperTalk basics | Editing scripts | System messages | Keywords | Commands | Functions | Properties | Operators and constants

HyperCard Resources

• hypercard.org
• HyperCard Discord
• HyperCardPreview - Pierre Lorenzi's modern macOS app that renders HyperCard stacks beautifully, providing easy text copying, and even a JSON export. This project would've been multitudes more difficult without this app.
• HyperCard Graphics Pack - Eliot Gardepe exported over 1,000 graphics, icons, and templates from HyperCard.