How to Play HyperCard Games on Windows 10 (and Linux, OS X, etc)
so after spending some of yesterday trying to figure out how to run Caper in the Castro offline, and realizing the biggest problem was finding the right files to make it work, I've decided to write this little guide for you all!
Disclaimers: you do this at your own risk, legal stuff is complicated, this is for educational purposes only, don't pirate Apple's ancient software, etc etc
Setup:
▪ Download Mini vMac from this website (making sure to choose the correct version for your OS) and extract "Mini vMac.exe" to your folder of choice.
▪ Go here, hit "Show All" under "Download Options", and download the file "System 6.0.8.zip" and extract it.
▪ Open the extracted folder and go to the "Content" folder, then "mnvm_dat", and find the file "vMac.ROM"
▪ Copy or move that file to the same folder where you have "Mini vMac.exe"
(At this point, you can delete the rest of the files you extracted from "System 6.0.8.zip". You don't need them.)
▪ Go here, hit "Show All" again, and download "HyperCardBootSystem7.img"
▪ Download whatever HyperCard games you'd like to play.
Playing Games:
▪ Double-click "Mini vMac.exe" to open it.
▪ There will be a loud beep, and the program should open and show an image of a floppy disk with a question mark on it.
▪ Drag-and-drop "HyperCardBootSystem7.img" into the program window, and let it think about that for a second, until it says "Welcome to Macintosh" and loads up the desktop.
▪ Drag-and-drop your game disk image (for Caper in the Castro it's just "disk.img") into the window, and then open the disk when it appears.
▪ When you are done playing, exit the game ("File" -> "Quit") and then go to "Special" -> "Shut Down" to safely shut down the machine before closing the window.
Optional step: Hold down the CTRL key, and then hit the M key to make the window bigger.
and there you go! that's how to run HyperCard games on Windows 10 (or on any system that Mini vMac works on, in theory)
