Editing HyperCard (section)

===HyperCard 3.0===
Several attempts were made to restart HyperCard development once it returned to Apple. Because of the product's widespread use as a multimedia-authoring tool it was rolled into the [[QuickTime]] group. A new effort to allow HyperCard to create QuickTime interactive (QTi) movies started, once again under the direction of Kevin Calhoun. QTi extended QuickTime's core multimedia playback features to provide true interactive facilities and a low-level programming language based on [[Motorola 68000|68000]] assembly language.  The resulting HyperCard 3.0 was first presented in 1996 when an alpha-quality version was shown to developers at Apple's annual [[Apple Worldwide Developers Conference]] (WWDC).<ref>{{cite journal |first =Clifford |last= Colby |date=September 1996 |url= http://folkstream.com/muse/teachhc/hc3.html |title= HyperCard's new deal: QuickTime authoring |journal= MacWeek}}</ref> Under the leadership of [[Dan Crow (computer scientist)|Dan Crow]] development continued through the late 1990s, with public demos showing many popular features such as color support, Internet connectivity, and the ability to play HyperCard stacks (which were now special QuickTime movies) in a [[web browser]]. Development upon HyperCard 3.0 stalled when the QuickTime team was focused away from developing QuickTime interactive to the streaming features of QuickTime 4.0. in 1998<ref>{{Cite journal |last= Duncan |first= Geoff |title= Alas, HyperCard! |journal= TidBits |date= November 2, 1998 |url= http://db.tidbits.com/article/5155}}</ref> [[Steve Jobs]] disliked the software because Atkinson had chosen to stay at Apple to finish it instead of joining Jobs at [[NeXT]], and (according to Atkinson) "it had Sculley's stink all over it".<ref name="Tri2"/> In 2000, the HyperCard engineering team was reassigned to other tasks after Jobs decided to abandon the product. Calhoun and Crow both left Apple shortly after, in 2001.

Its final release was in 1998, and it was totally discontinued in March 2004.<ref>{{Citation |first= Tim |last= Oren |date= March 26, 2004 |url= http://due-diligence.typepad.com/ |contribution-url= http://due-diligence.typepad.com/blog/2004/03/a_eulogy_for_hy.html |title= Due diligence |publisher= Type pad |contribution= A Eulogy for HyperCard |type= blog}}</ref>

HyperCard runs natively only in the [[classic Mac OS]], but it can still be used in [[macOS|Mac OS X]]'s [[Classic (Mac OS X)|Classic]] mode on PowerPC based machines (G5 and earlier). The last functional native HyperCard authoring environment is Classic mode in Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) on PowerPC-based machines.