I was able to run my old copy of Connections (a fairly sophisticated set of related stacks) without any problems. As with other OS emulators, there is a shared volume that gives your emulated OS access to files on your main Mac OS X hard drive - allowing you to copy your old stack files to the emulated hard disk. You’ll need to dig out your old Mac OS installer CDs to locate the necessary ROM image file and OS installers, but once you do it andįollow the instructions to the letter, you should be able to run HyperCard on your fancy, otherwise up-to-date Mac. If you can’t bear to part with your old HyperCard stacks, I recently discovered a Mac OS emulator that runs well under Snow Leopard (and, presumably,

For a view of what the ravages of time can inflict, watch my music videoĭownload HyperPort™ Now (program, tutorial stacks, PDF manual: 8.3 MB). (I apologize in advance for the photo of the young punk HyperCard guy on the back cover the manual. It therefore requires Classic Mode in which to operate. Before running the stack, read the manual carefully, follow the tutorial with supplied tutorial files, and perform your exports on BACKUP COPIES OF YOUR STACKS. I provide no product support or implied warranty for this free download version.

I am releasing it here as a free download for anyone who wants to try to capture HyperCard stack data before the stacks become inaccessible. HyperPort was released in 1990 as a commercial product. If you’ve worried about losing data you’ve accumulated in HyperCard stacks by upgrading to (Snow) Leopard or moving to a new Intel-based Mac, you can use HyperPort before you upgrade to export the data and then import it into your choice of nifty current Mac OS X applications.

But ever since the arrival of Leopard (Mac OS X 10.5), Classic Mode is no more, even on non-Intel Macs. HyperPort™ Rescue HyperCard Stack Data Before UpgradingĪs Mac OS X users know, HyperCard requires Classic Mode.

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