Seeking Tips to Export Hypercard Stacks to Anything

[Todd's keyboard]

Found a couple of Hypercard stacks that I'd like to export to any type of program that runs in OS X.

Currently, I can open and read the stacks in an old G3 iBook. One stack is a calendar of births, deaths, holidays, and historical events that occurred throughout history. It would be nice to be able to import this data into iCal.

I can do this by manually copying and pasting blocks of data one at a time. Any thoughts on how to export all of the information to any type of file?

It doesn't need to be in iCal. For example, a spreadsheet could also work as a type of calendar data base.

thanks, Todd's dusty ol' keyboard

[Buzz]

I remember doing that, moving a bunch of Hypercard info into FileMaker, it's just that it's been soooooo long that I don't remember how. IIRC, it was late 1980's/early 1990's... though I was a guru w/ QuicKeys, and may very well could have automated the copy/swap apps/paste process using QK, or some spreadsheet (Excel, ClarisWorks, etc.) or text editor middleware could also have been involved. Whatever it was, it wasn't completely manual. Good luck.
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[pdq]

...is apparently still around.

Warning: not cheap.

[btfc]

http://hypercard.org

[Filliam H. Muffman]

Hopefully something on the site btfc posted will work. Otherwise I would say you are about 15 years late. Maybe some sort of 68K emulator would work.

[Chakravartin]

If it's just a list in plain text, copy and paste it into a text file and do a find/replace to make it into a csv following this format guide:
https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/45656?hl=en

Then import it into a Google calendar, subscribe to that calendar in iCal/Calendar.app and Bob's yer uncle.

(Is the stack editable? If so, then you have access to the script and source and that should make it pretty easy to pull the text out vs copy-paste from every text field.)