e4 – Merryxmas
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English - December 24, 2014 05:00 - 25 minutes - 11.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsTechnology Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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In a stocking-stuffer-sized holiday special we remember Merryxmas and other HyperCard viruses. Happy holidays!
In a stocking-stuffer-sized holiday special we remember Merryxmas and other HyperCard viruses. Happy holidays!
Links for this episode:
HyperCard"HyperCard was introduced by Apple in 1987. It shipped for free on all Macs. HyperCard was difficult to explain then, and -- to some degree -- remains so today." from Apple's Lost Decade on ZDNetMyst (made with HyperCard)wiki entryofficial site (iOS and Steam ports available!)Riven (the epic 5CD or 1 DVD sequel)HyperTalk scripting languageXCMDs (external commands) allowed extra featuresColor Tools – became standard in HyperCard 2.2@hypercard unofficial twitter accountI would wish you Merry XMas, but then everybody would think I had a virus again …
— HyperCard (@HyperCard) December 26, 2010SIMM Stack – vector for Merryxmasother HyperCard virusesdescriptions [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]HC 9507Dukakis1988 US presidential electionMacMagThreeTunes"Muss i denn" [YouTube]"Behind the Blue Mountains"? [YouTube]Douglas Adams on HyperCardDisinfectant (retired in 1998)