8 Ball Hc
| Filename | 8-ball-hc.hqx |
|---|---|
| Size | 26.7 KB (27356 bytes) |
| Developer | Chad Kluck |
| Downloads | 21 |
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.
Original Source: info-mac
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.
