Larry-bob @larrybob@octodon.social
Book: The International Homosexual Conspiracy.
#Queercore #zine: Holy Titclamps.
#OpenMic: Smack Dab at Dog Eared Castro.
#SF #queer events: sfqueer.com
I like the look of the brightly colored tables in this 1997 version of my website. https://octodon.social/media/2IKABqv8uuDyjl5whiE
Apparently some #Voyager CDROMS, such as "Our Secret Century" series by Rick Prelinger of ephemeral films were produced using Oracle Media Objects.
(by the way: Prelinger Archives collection of films were the among first materials beyond archived webpages added to the Internet Archive)
#Oracle Media Objects aka Oracle Card was a #Hypercard like media creation tool which was Macintosh OS 6-9 based but could apparently run stacks on Windows. Marc Benioff was on the Oracle Card team and later founded #Salesforce.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_Media_Objects
@ajr There is a currently usable #OSX #Hypercard like media creation tool called #Supercard. http://www.supercard.us/
Photo of me circa 1994 with a #MacClassic running a #Hypercard stack I wrote to review #queer #zines for #Factsheet5 and my publication Queer Zine Explosion. https://octodon.social/media/2T4Gs_da859Tn64dRqE
@ajr Voyager CDROM catalog. Some titles are Macintosh-only (seemingly earlier, HyperCard based ones before they moved to a multi-OS authoring system, perhaps.) This page about a Voyager CDR that also ran on Windows still mentions HyperCard when it runs on a Mac. http://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/Voyager.html
https://octodon.social/media/9Ge_IDwsGROECBxnXQw
https://octodon.social/media/kziTweo_dmHIbI4y5UE
@ajr Back cover of Poetry In Motion II published by Voyager. Note System Requirements - it ran on Windows too, so maybe this one is not HyperCard based. Video resolution was fairly low - this is a CDROM, not a DVD-ROM!
https://octodon.social/media/UAoFgGybR7vC1eMi6iQ
@ajr Here's a Metafilter thread that links to an article & archive of Archipelago, a sort of group blog that used #HyperCard disks sent through postal mail. It also resembles an Amateur Press Association (a type of collaborative communication that dates back to the 19th century.)
http://www.metafilter.com/131995/Blogging-through-Hypercard
Archipelago Archive: http://www.cartania.com/archipelago/contents.html
Background on APAs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amateur_press_association
@ajr One of the big losses of not being able to run #HyperCard is the loss of the ability to run Voyager CD-ROMs. They were associated with the Criterion Collection. Titles includes Art Spiegelman's graphic novel Maus, two volumes of Poetry in Motion, The Residents Freak Show, Laurie Anderson's Puppet Motel, etc.
Article mentioning HyperCard: http://www.inventinginteractive.com/2010/02/22/voyager-1989-2000/
Wikipedia including title list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_Company
Okay folks, some of you were actually alive and using computers when #hypercard was a thing.
Tell me about your hypercard memories.
Did you make weird games or hypertext novels? Are any of them still out there? What were your favorites?
(I'm working on a thing, I need info.)
I'm just going to talk about Hypercard again for a bit.
It frustrates me to no end that the only way to run hypercard stacks today is to boot a Mac Classic emulator, and the load the stack in to hypercard in the emulator.
AFAIK, the whole thing was interpreted. We should be able to write a hypercard player for any platform.
Hypercard was a tool for Non-programmers to make programs.
The things that were made in hypercard are pretty simple, all things considered, but they could look and feel very polished, and it was way ahead of a lot of other tools in that regard.
If you've never used it, think of Hypercard as Powerpoint with functions and variable.
Going to the gym means less time for art.
this is from our native peoples protest three days ago, but it's so powerful
15th Century #recipe for a giant egg (ingredients: 30 to 40 normal-sized eggs and two pig bladders.)
http://www.staff.uni-giessen.de/gloning/tx/erez-01.htm
Hey people, lets compare internet costs around the world.
Here in India, it costs around ₹700 INR (~$11 USD) for a 20Mbps ethernet connection with a 100GB cap (3Mbps thereafter) for a month.
It costs around half of that for a 4G mobile connection (1GB/day for 28 days).
Let us know how is it at your place.
Well, instead of writing or programming, I decided to write a post with my ideas of how to crowd source things like reporting users. Mainly the idea came from "if Twitter won't handle reported users, how to make it so a community could."
https://d.moonfire.us/blog/2017/04/26/federated-opinions/
It's a bit long, but it's an idea along with specifics. I hate complaining about something without having a suggestion of how to improve it.
This idea is based on #mastodon. :)
Younger Baby Boomers (born in the 1950s), you could go ahead and appropriate this art history term referring to some artists around your age and declare yourself a member of the Pictures Generation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pictures_Generation
Now iOs application Amaroq has support for two-plus instatiations, so it is now not as much of a pain to post both on this and a location which allows taboo symbols.
Cool, Amaroq now supports multiple instances :)
