SuperCard

This article is about the development environment. For the combat sport events, see Supercard. For the memory card cartridge for Nintendo DS and 3DS, see Nintendo DS and 3DS storage devices.
SuperCard
Developer(s)Solutions Etcetera
Stable release
4.8.1 / Feb 27, 2020
Operating systemSystem Software 6, System 7, Mac OS 8, Mac OS 9, Mac OS X
Typehypermedia, development
LicenseProprietary
Websitewww.supercard.us

SuperCard was a high-level development environment that ran on Macintosh computers, under OS 8 and 9, and OS X. It was inspired by HyperCard, but included a richer language, a full GUI toolkit, and native color (as opposed to HyperCard's Apple- or third-party-supplied add-ons).

The programming language used by SuperCard was called SuperTalk, and was largely based on HyperTalk, the language in HyperCard. In addition to the core language, SuperTalk could call out to OSA-based scripting languages such as AppleScript, and shell commands. The language could be extended with so-called externals, chunks of compiled code that appeared like native routines.

Programs created using SuperCard could be run inside the IDE itself, or as "standalones", which combined the user-created programs and resources with the execution engine used by SuperCard.