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Jeff Halter

halcyon@bitbang.social

<p>Drunk on &#39;90s computing nostalgia, hacking on After Dark, HyperCard, and Hotline.</p>

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    I&#39;ve released Stacks v1.0a17 with many compatibility fixes, with a focus on working through problems in the fascinating &quot;HyperCard 10th Anniversary&quot; stack from the Internet Archive. What an amazing time capsule of Apple&#39;s history this thing is. Card 2 says that among others, the stack was presented to &quot;Steve Jobs, Acting CEO&quot; in late 1997. I can only imagine his enthusiasm! It&#39;s also an absolute flex: animations, music, colors, speech, drag and drop. Not 1...

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    If you like HyperCard, or are HyperCard-curious, I&#39;d like to share an early build of my HyperCard player for modern macOS, &quot;Stacks&quot;. It runs stacks natively: no emulator, sound (with MacinTalk speech synthesis!), period-accurate typography. There&#39;s an in-app browser for the Internet Archive&#39;s HyperCard collection, so you can explore thousands of stacks and run them with one click. Still early days with rough edges, but I&#39;m having fun with it. Please report bugs!...

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    After Dark Player progress: Ripple is looking good, with the Water Color control mapped to the macOS native color picker. Feels great to get a color picker for free! 🎨

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    Satori by Ben Haller has aged well. Still gorgeous after 36 (!!) years.

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    I need to revisit his last game, The Fool and His Money. It landed at the awkward time between PPC to Intel transition and didn&#39;t leave me with much time to finish it before it was incompatible with my daily driver Mac.

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    I&#39;ve gone down a deep rabbit hole working on a strange new project: a standalone After Dark module player for modern macOS. No OS emulation or ROM required -- just the original classic Mac OS AD module files! I can&#39;t believe this is working!