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HyperCard is a software application and development kit for early Apple computers, most notably the Macintosh. It gave users of any skill level the ability to put together interactive information. | HyperCard is a software application and development kit for early Apple computers, most notably the Macintosh. It gave users of any skill level the ability to put together interactive information. | ||
A list of Thoru's HyperCard stacks can be found on the website of ''Motoyuki Tanaka'', where they were hosted.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20050310003241/http://mtlab.ecn.fpu.ac.jp/Yamamoto/works.html</ref> These were a mix of animations and interactive scenes and are listed alphabetically below. Out of a total of 32 stacks only 22 are present in the Wayback Machine archive of | A list of Thoru's HyperCard stacks can be found on the website of ''Motoyuki Tanaka'', where they were hosted.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20050310003241/http://mtlab.ecn.fpu.ac.jp/Yamamoto/works.html</ref> These were a mix of animations and interactive scenes and are listed alphabetically below. Out of a total of 32 stacks only 22 are present in the Wayback Machine archive of the aforementioned website. | ||
* A Little Tree <span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''</span> | * A Little Tree <span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''</span> |
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Thoru Yamamoto (山本徹) is a Japanese artist. Over time he has released art in many formats, including magazine illustrations, HyperCard decks, CD-ROM, printed books, websites, digital stickers and videos.
Websites
Over the past 30 years Thoru Yamamoto has had many different online homes.
Historial
Below is a list of those that have been found so far, in roughly chronological order judging by the contents.
- 1997 http://mtlab.ecn.fpu.ac.jp/Yamamoto/works.html
- 1998 http://www.bekkoame.or.jp/~thoru/
- 1998 http://www.tky.3web.ne.jp/~thoruman/index.html
- 2002 http://homepage1.nifty.com/okuji/contest.html
- 2002 http://www.eggegg.co.jp/~tango/index.html
- 2004 http://www.thoruman.com/tyhp/works/work.html
- 2007 http://web.mac.com/thoru/thoruman/top.html
Current
Some websites are still online though all have not been updated in many years.
- 2004 http://pickle.cc/jp/
- 2004 http://www.languagegame.org:8080/zoo/1
- 2008 http://www.youtube.com/user/thoruman
- 2016 http://thoruman.web.fc2.com
CD-ROMs
A list of known multimedia content is below, in roughly chronological order.
- 1994 Pickle's Book (CD-ROM) Lost
- 1995 Cookie & Ginger (CD-ROM) Lost
- 1996 Crouton (CD-ROM) Lost
- ???? Penny (CD-ROM) Lost
- 1996 See The Sky (CD-ROM or Printed Book) Lost
- 1999 Trash (2HD Floppy Disk) Lost
- 1999 Bon voyage Chai (CD-R) Lost
Note: a port of Pickle's Book remains available for iOS[1] but this differs in a number of ways to the older personal computer CD-ROM version, which would install icons to your desktop as you played.
HyperCard stacks
HyperCard is a software application and development kit for early Apple computers, most notably the Macintosh. It gave users of any skill level the ability to put together interactive information.
A list of Thoru's HyperCard stacks can be found on the website of Motoyuki Tanaka, where they were hosted.[2] These were a mix of animations and interactive scenes and are listed alphabetically below. Out of a total of 32 stacks only 22 are present in the Wayback Machine archive of the aforementioned website.
- A Little Tree Lost
- Drug Store Found
- Hand to Hand Found
- Happy Man Found
- Mid Night Gig Found
- See The Sky (Vol. 1-6) Partially Found
- ZiZi Stories (Vol. 1–16) Partially Found
Note: all 16 volumes of ZiZi Stories are still available online as HTML [3], but these versions lack the sound, animated transitions and frame pacing of the older HyperCard versions.