8 Ball Hc
| Filename | 8-ball-hc.hqx |
|---|---|
| Size | 26.7 KB (27356 bytes) |
| Downloads | 8 |
8 Ball v1.3 is a freeware HyperCard stack by Chad Kluck that recreates the infamous Magic 8 Ball fortune-telling toy on the classic Mac. Ask the stack a yes-or-no question, give it a shake, and a familiar floating reply surfaces from the murky window. It is a tiny, charming desk-accessory style diversion built entirely on the Mac's home-grown hypermedia engine.
Gameplay
The metaphor is the same as the plastic toy: pose a question, shake, and read whatever cryptic verdict the ball returns. Replies cycle through the standard Magic 8 Ball pool of affirmatives, negatives, and noncommittal hedges, served back inside a HyperCard card window.
HyperCard Origins
The stack is a textbook example of the small, single-purpose toys that flourished inside HyperCard during the late System 6 and System 7 era, when authors could ship a finished idea in a few hundred kilobytes of cards and scripts.
Requirements
Requires HyperCard (or HyperCard Player) on a classic Mac. The archive ships as a BinHex file and must be decoded with BinHex 4.0 before opening.
Author and Distribution
Released as freeware by Chad Kluck (kluck@teknetwork.com) and distributed through the Info-Mac archive.
This file is part of the MacTrove archive. See the Thank You page for the upstream mirrors we rely on. It is BinHex encoded — use The Unarchiver to decode it.
