A transitional HyperCard Player, versions 2.0 & 2.1 ?Transitional in
the sense that these "players" were distributed by Apple shortly
before Claris Corp. took over development of the HyperCard project.
And transitional, because they held a special undocumented magic
feature...
What makes these two players special (and fun), is that by going to
the last card of the "Home" stack, and typing the word magic into the
"Message" box (evoked by typing "Command + M"), the "player" becomes a
full HyperCard Program allowing raising the user level to "5". In
doing so, there becomes no difference between these and a full
commercial released version 2.0 or 2.1 with the only exception being
that they don't include most of the example stacks or documentation
that accompanied a full distribution.
Subsequent releases of HyperCard fell under the total control of
Claris, including releasing their version of the 2.1 Player which now
had the "magic" feature removed. With the demise of Claris, HyperCard
development returned briefly to Apple until the eventual demise of
HyperCard itself. And all versions of the HyperCard Player from the
Claris 2.1 version on, were well and truly limited to user level "3"
only.
* DL #1: HyperCard v2.0 (Magic Edition) 1.4 MB floppy disk images in
a StuffIt 3.5 ".sit" archive.
* DL #2: HyperCard v2.1 (Magic Edition) This Apple release was
distributed on 1.4 MB or 800k media. Both the 1.4MB and 800k disk
images in Disk Copy 4.2 format are included in with this archive,
enclosed in a StuffIt 3.6 ".sit" file.
* DL #3: HyperCard v2.1 (Magic Edition) French Canadian version.
Compatibility
Architecture: 68k
68k encoded. Running on PowerPC Macintosh is also fine.
Requires Macintosh System 6.0.5 or newer.
These copies of HyperCard are most suitable for Macintosh Systems
6.0.5 to 7.6.1
They will also run in Mac OSs 8.0 and above, but those systems
introduced new Help menus that clash with how some of the included
HyperCard stacks work in these versions of HyperCard.
For example, the included "Audio Help" stack when launched, attempts
to create a "Help" menu. This conflicts with the "Help" menu in Mac OS
8.0 and later. Its not fatal and the "Help" menu code can be edited
out of the "Audio Help" stack's Script (after raising HyperCard's user
level to "5") if you want to run this stack on Mac OS's 8.0 - 9.2.2.
