Editing SuperCard (section)

===The early years===
SuperCard was first created by [[William Appleton (entrepreneur)|Bill Appleton]] and published by [[Silicon Beach Software]] in 1989.<ref>{{cite magazine| magazine=[[Macworld]]| title=Beyond Hypercard| page=81| first=Tom| last=Moran| url=https://archive.org/details/MacWorld_8904_April_1989/page/n82/mode/1up| volume=6| issue=4| date=April 1989}}</ref> Appleton combined elements from [[World Builder]] (that he wrote), [[HyperCard]], [[SuperPaint]] and the Macintosh user interface.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Gookin |first1=Dan |title=The complete SuperCard handbook |date=1989 |publisher=Compute! Books |isbn=0874551986 |page=vii,17-18 |url=https://archive.org/details/completesupercar0000gook/page/n9/mode/1up |chapter=Foreword |url-access=registration}}</ref>

In 1990, Silicon Beach was acquired by [[Aldus Corporation]].<ref>{{cite web |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161011062827/http://s-beach.com/about.html |archive-date=11 October 2016 |url=http://s-beach.com/about.html |title=About Us |website=Silicon Beach Software}}</ref> Aldus released version 1.6 of SuperCard which brought support for AppleEvents, enhanced graphic capabilities and several other improvements.