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Show HN: HyperCard to HTML Converter

Posted by druidcz on Saturday September 05, 2026 @12:11PM
from the show-hn dept.

https://github.com/stachon/hc2html

I created a converter that turns HyperCard 2.x stacks into standalone HTML so they can run in a modern browser.

I built it to share my own stacks from the early '90s, which have been sitting on old floppy images for 30 years.

It's MIT-licensed and I'd welcome contributions - especially stacks that break the converter, since I've only tested it against my own. If you have old HyperCard files lying around, I'd love to hear how they fare.

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Re:Show HN: HyperCard to HTML Converter by joe-esquibel on Saturday September 05, 2026 @03:49PM (#49580044)
Did you create your own hypercard parser? That's dope. I have been making multi language structural parser, I have some hypercard capabilities. I haven't compared my output to anyone. But I have created ci CD pipelines that contain examples of all the things I want evaluated in all formats I could think, perhaps that would be helpful for your project.
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Re:Show HN: HyperCard to HTML Converter by kalleboo on Saturday September 05, 2026 @10:36PM (#49582775)
It looks like Claude did it, probably based on other ones that already exist in the source
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Re:Show HN: HyperCard to HTML Converter by druidcz on Sunday September 06, 2026 @04:31AM (#49584453)
Yes.
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