Absolutely. Gather them up and load them on here... your stacks can have a new life! Then if you want, you can publish your stacks so others can learn from them and use what you've created. We are striving for near 100% compatibility with HyperCard 2.2. We're not there just yet, so if you experience any issues, let us know in the forums.
How do I upload a HyperCard stack?
Once you have a user account, you can can click the "Upload Existing Stack" button that is located at the bottom-right of the "My Personal Stacks" section. The only requirement is that the stacks you upload must be in MacBinary format. You can use some versions of StuffIt to create a MacBinary file, or you can download this free converter for Mac OS X.
Compressed or stuffed stacks are not supported yet. We are working a way to import stacks compressed with StuffIt, but that's not in place just yet.
Finally, we do recommend that you first compact your stacks if you have a way to do that. We have done a lot of work to read uncompacted stacks properly and generally we can read them just fine. But there are still some occasional glitches we've seen with uncompacted stacks.
Is there anything I can do to with stacks I have on old floppy disks?
Actually, yes :-) If you have some old HyperCard stacks lying around on floppy disks that you can't read because you either don't have a computer with a floppy drive, then we'll gladly do our best to import them on our vintage hardware here in CodeFlare labs. Keep in mind that older floppies can sometimes be troublesome to read due to their age or how much banging around they've had, so we may not be able to recover them.
If you'd like us to try and recover your stacks and then assign them to your account as personal stacks, just send your floppies in appropriate packaging to:
NOTE: Please include your user account email address plus return packaging and postage if you would like us to return your floppies
Are there any important limitations with your support for HyperCard?
Probably the biggest limitation is that we don't have any support for external commands (XCMD's). If you are familiar with what these are then you can understand that it's just not feasible. However, if there was a great XCMD that you used to use and that your existing stack depends on, then please let us know in the "Old School" forum. If it makes sense, we may add it if at all possible.
Additionally, we are still missing some commands, functions and properties. Some of these are missing on purpose, but others are not yet implemented. In either case, please help us fill the missing gaps by letting us know what's missing in the "Questions" area. Thanks.
How backward compatible is Speak with HyperTalk?
We aren't perfect yet. However, we are striving for 100% compatibility with HyperTalk. We probably won't be able to technically support every command, function or property that HyperTalk had available to it, but from the language perspective we are at least 95% compatibility currently. Most of the problems you are likely to encounter are going to be with unsupported or missing commands, functions, properties.
If you find a problem please report it in the "Questions" area. Thanks.
Can I actually start using my old stacks online?
How do I upload a HyperCard stack?
Compressed or stuffed stacks are not supported yet. We are working a way to import stacks compressed with StuffIt, but that's not in place just yet.
Finally, we do recommend that you first compact your stacks if you have a way to do that. We have done a lot of work to read uncompacted stacks properly and generally we can read them just fine. But there are still some occasional glitches we've seen with uncompacted stacks.
Is there anything I can do to with stacks I have on old floppy disks?
If you'd like us to try and recover your stacks and then assign them to your account as personal stacks, just send your floppies in appropriate packaging to:
CodeFlare
5919 Greenville #335
Dallas, TX 75206-1906
NOTE: Please include your user account email address plus return packaging and postage if you would like us to return your floppies
Are there any important limitations with your support for HyperCard?
Additionally, we are still missing some commands, functions and properties. Some of these are missing on purpose, but others are not yet implemented. In either case, please help us fill the missing gaps by letting us know what's missing in the "Questions" area. Thanks.
How backward compatible is Speak with HyperTalk?
If you find a problem please report it in the "Questions" area. Thanks.