About the service
HyperCard is a legendary hypermedia construction kit that came bundled with every Mac, and HyperTalk is its simple, English-like scripting language. I write it fluently and help those who need real HyperTalk work today.
What I can do:
— Recreate a lost or damaged stack from screenshots, printouts, or partial disk images — I will restore cards, backgrounds, fields, and buttons exactly as they were.
— Build a completely new interactive stack from scratch: menus, navigation, forms, simple databases, animation, and sound — all with clean HyperTalk handlers (on mouseUp, on openCard, on idle).
— Migrate classic stacks to modern engines so they run on current macOS, Windows, and Linux. LiveCode is the direct successor to HyperTalk, and Decker is an elegant lightweight revival of the idea; I faithfully port your logic.
— Emulate and rescue: I will run your old HyperCard 2.x stack under an emulator, extract the scripts, and explain how each handler and function works.
How I work: I first study the behavior of the original, then rebuild it card by card, preserving its look and feel. You get commented scripts, a brief guide to the stack, and a version that opens on the machines people actually use in 2026. A museum piece, a family archive, an educational tool, or a genuinely useful application — I treat HyperTalk with proper respect. Tell me what you have and what it should become, and I will chart the fastest honest path.
What I can do:
— Recreate a lost or damaged stack from screenshots, printouts, or partial disk images — I will restore cards, backgrounds, fields, and buttons exactly as they were.
— Build a completely new interactive stack from scratch: menus, navigation, forms, simple databases, animation, and sound — all with clean HyperTalk handlers (on mouseUp, on openCard, on idle).
— Migrate classic stacks to modern engines so they run on current macOS, Windows, and Linux. LiveCode is the direct successor to HyperTalk, and Decker is an elegant lightweight revival of the idea; I faithfully port your logic.
— Emulate and rescue: I will run your old HyperCard 2.x stack under an emulator, extract the scripts, and explain how each handler and function works.
How I work: I first study the behavior of the original, then rebuild it card by card, preserving its look and feel. You get commented scripts, a brief guide to the stack, and a version that opens on the machines people actually use in 2026. A museum piece, a family archive, an educational tool, or a genuinely useful application — I treat HyperTalk with proper respect. Tell me what you have and what it should become, and I will chart the fastest honest path.
