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.

This website has both Modern and Retro views.

Current Status

July 4, 2025: I've created a GitHub repository to hold the formatted text files for this website. I've updated the website to read the new file format and structure. (Old links redirect to the new locations.) The next items on the list are adding the Glossary, Troubleshooting, and Helpful Tips cards to the website.

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.