Uploaded March 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Welcome to #IMARCHintosh!

@jdmcs posted recently that he was working on a #HyperCard stack using Macintalk. I've never actually tried to do that so let's give it a go!

References:
PlainTalk, Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlainTalk

Technical Note 268: MacinTalk—The Final Chapter, Jim Reekes, February 1990
This Technical Note discusses the MacinTalk software product.
spinsidemacintosh.neocities.org/tn405#tn268

Speech Synthesis in the Classic Mac OS, Ray White 2004
whitefiles.org/dta/pgs/f10.htm

HyperCard 2.0 Macintalk
Yet another HyperCard stack with Macintalk built in as an XCMD
archive.org/details/hypercard_hypercard-20-macintalk

Macintalk for HyperCard 2.0
The stack demonstrated in the stream.
archive.org/details/hypercard_macintalk-for-hypercard-20

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