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@stonetoolsblog Your #AppleWorks and #Hypercard posts, and to a lesser extent the #dBase and #VisualBasic posts, are giving me a bit of a brainwave... could it be that the recipe for a retro sleeper hit is to glue just a bit of automation onto a flat file #database?
Earlier I wrote about owners of the HP #200LX performing daring feats of automation using only the machine's ROM applications (word processor, spreadsheet, database) and a system macro recorder. Their workflows strongly remind me of the workflow you devised for laying out your text adventure game in AppleWorks. Then, HyperCard took things a step further by adding a scripting language and graphics. All these tools feel like members of the same category, with the #HP200LX perhaps the least capable (but most approachable), and HyperCard the most capable (but requiring the most programming to unlock its power).
VB departs from the category by neglecting to ship a built-in database, as you mentioned. dBase departs from the category (subjectively) by being CLI-focused and stodgy enough that it doesn't provide the feeling of sculpting a living medium with one's hands.
I'm obsessed with the category, whatever name one might choose to attach to it. (RAD? Too code-focused. Nocode? Has become its own thing bearing little resemblance to the progenitors.) Regardless, flat-file databases seem to be a sweet spot, simple enough to be readily grasped regardless of technical background but powerful enough to get work done.
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Episódio 160 – Integrados e Suítes – Parte A
https://retropolis.com.br/2025/02/05/episodio-160-parte-a/
#Podcast #aplicaes #Apple #AppleII #AppleIII #AppleWorks #AppleWorksGS #AshtonTate #Claris #ContextMBA #CPM #Framework #integrado #Jane #LibreOffice #Lotus #microsoft #office #podcast #Retrocomputao #retrogaming #Retrpolis #Software #suite #Symphony #TMaker #VizaStar #Works
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@limi I bought a Power Mac G4 MDD last week. So I now have a very well working and fast Mac OS X 10.5 machine :)
#hellosystem is the closest if you want something like that on modern hardware. But #Audion, #AppleWorks, #Transmit, … all the stuff that makes this old Mac OS so great besides the system core is missing today.