What is LiveCode (PowerPC)?

LiveCode is a cross platform IDE that has been around since 2001.  It has been described as the "modern day HyperCard" as it was inspired by it and is the only HyperCard clone that runs on all major OS'es. Initially through MetaCard engine, a HyperCard commercial clone, LiveCode then evolved to include its own programming language named "LiveCode Builder" in 2015.  LiveCode is "Code it once, deploy it to billions of devices" as it supports all major OS'es such as iOS (since 2010), Android, Mac OS X (and macOS), Windows and Linux and HTML5.  Older releases even supported compiling for Mac OS 9.

This page hosts the last PowerPC releases. For more modern (Intel) releases of LiveCode see https://downloads.livecode.com/livecode/

For source code releases, see https://github.com/livecode which was proudly announced on LiveCode.org with the very first sentence of the site stating "We believe in Open Source software." but on september 1st, 2021, LiveCode CEO Kevin Miller announced that LiveCode was no longer open source:

After 8 years with an open source offering we have come to the conclusion this is not the way forward for LiveCode. Whilst we are hugely grateful for the contributions we have received from the community during that period, it remains the case that 99% of the work on LiveCode is done by our in-house team. With a large section of the LiveCode community using the free open source edition, the cost of maintaining this vs the reward for doing so is not a balanced equation. It is a huge task which we are under-resourced to undertake. We have therefore taken the decision at this time to discontinue support for the open source editions of LiveCode. You can of course continue to use existing open source editions, and the code remains visible on github for viewing. The project will no longer accept contributions and we will not be maintaining it or offering open source downloads on our site.

-- LiveCode CEO Kevin Miller

 

Download LiveCode (PowerPC) for Mac

Architecture

OSX Universal Binary

System Requirements

From Mac OS 10.4 up to Mac OS 10.12

Compatibility notes

Architecture: PPC + x86 (Universal Binary)

Mac OS X 10.4 - Mac OS X 10.9 (see downloads list)

 

Emulating this? It could probably run under: QEMU