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That was pure awesome kaveh, thank you for making my day

Always great to listen to Bill. Looks like I gave the wrong link by the way. The story about the Acid trip is around minute 22 here:

https://twit.tv/shows/triangulation/epi ... tart=false

Nope, link you put got me right to it

Thanks for this. Posted the day after Bicycle Day too....

Hi All,

I suspect that previously we have discussed at length this same topic on the mail list
or this forum. In short, although Bill Atkinson attributes HyperCard to an acid trip,
the fact is that Apple have to pay royalties to Paul Heckel, the author of ZoomRacks:

https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classe ... nking.html
https://www.atarimagazines.com/startv2n3/hypercard.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoomracks
http://www.drdobbs.com/the-real-deal/184410352
https://apple.slashdot.org/story/01/03/ ... r-mac-os-x

Ah Al, thank you for the memory (2nd link, zoomracks). I still have one of those Atari machines but no zoomracks on it

Looks like Zoomracks is available on eBay:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/ZOOMRACKS-Atar ... 3294701699

Al

The royalty payments have long since expired.

Heh, good one

although Bill Atkinson attributes HyperCard to an acid trip

That is just a bit of "colour", or, possibly in Bill Atkinson's case "color."

I have attributed great ideas I've had to dreams, divine revelation or
lying drunk in the bath: all far more interesting than just some idea
I had while I was staring mindlessly out of the window on the bus.

Bogs, Could you make a Zoomracks clone using LiveCode?

Here's a fairly good description of Zoomrack's functionality:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoomracks

and these let you see what the thing looked like:

http://www.page6.org/archive/issue_23/page_20.htm

http://www.atarimania.com/utility-atari ... 32046.html

and download the software: mind you, you'll be a bit stuck unless you can shoehorn it into
an emulator.

capellan wrote: ↑

Mon Apr 22, 2019 8:15 pm

Bogs, Could you make a Zoomracks clone using LiveCode?

Heh, well, for a while I was making this... From what I read in the descriptions of it, it sounds pretty limited though. I'd be far more fascinated making an Mc clone on Squeak, whose vm's apparently run nearly anywhere I'd be working (but not mobile ).

for a while I was making this

I think I'll pop out and design something called a wheel.
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While making clones of software items from the past may be quite instructive as a
learning process I'm sure that is about as far as these sort of things go.