Archive 4. September 2004

Blog vacation until Thursday night

That's why there won't be anything new here until then. No, I'm not moblogging. Check out the old stuff, or read some more interesting blogs, I'd rather explore Hamburg instead

HyperPAD - Application Development Software published by Brightbill-Roberts and IQ Technologies.

While browsing through old software and investigating what became of it, I came across the now free — as in free beer — availability of HyperPad. HyperPad was a programming environment for DOS computers that was heavily inspired by HyperCard. No graphics, but a pretty good recreation of what made HyperCard special — and an almost identical copy of the programming language. Quite amusing for the time, when integrated development environments with GUI builders were still utopias from the workstation market.

Here's the original article.