8 Ball Hc

File	8-ball-hc.hqx
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Category	Game

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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.GameplayThe 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 OriginsThe 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.RequirementsRequires 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 DistributionReleased as freeware by Chad Kluck (kluck@teknetwork.com) and distributed through the Info-Mac archive.