Stacks — HyperCard Player for Modern MacOS

Well this is just delightful:

  • Run HyperCard stacks directly on your modern Mac. No emulator required!
  • Browse the Internet Archive’s HyperCard collection and run stacks with one-click.
  • Period-accurate typography.
  • Sound, instruments, and MacinTalk speech synthesis.
  • Cross-stack navigation.

Stacks is a really beautiful native Mac app, and its presentation of classic HyperCard stacks is exquisitely faithful to the era. It’s simultaneously Mac-assed 2026-style and Mac-assed 1987-style. Crackerjack work from developer Jeff Halter.

★ Sunday, 12 July 2026