Livecode Community on Apple Silicon

Emily-Elizabeth · Post by **Emily-Elizabeth** » Tue Mar 17, 2026 2:21 am

For the last couple of days, I've been working on getting Livecode Community to run natively on Apple Silicon. There is still a lot of work to be done. Obviously I'll have to change the name, anyone have any ideas?

FourthWorld · Post by **FourthWorld** » Tue Mar 17, 2026 4:27 am

The IDE stacks are where branding is user-facing, and as you know are separate from the compiled engine.

Given how often the brand name shows up across the IDE, rebranding is a fair bit of work.

You might consider using the IDE stacks Paul worked on for OXT, and maybe coordinating your build as a fork.

Emily-Elizabeth · Post by **Emily-Elizabeth** » Tue Mar 17, 2026 5:05 am

I did think about asking the OXT guys for the source code, but I figured doing it from the Livecode source would be a fun challenge

FourthWorld · Post by **FourthWorld** » Tue Mar 17, 2026 5:38 am

The heart wants what the heart wants, but given your talents if I had any say in it I'd rather see you work on that engine compile than a tedious rote task.

Emily-Elizabeth · Post by **Emily-Elizabeth** » Tue Mar 17, 2026 5:48 am

FourthWorld wrote: Tue Mar 17, 2026 5:38 am The heart wants what the heart wants, but given your talents if I had any say in it I'd rather see you work on that engine compile than a tedious rote task.

Well, I have some issues with getting the IDE to be installed in the compiled application (I just copypasta'd the Toolset into the bundle). Next I have a few locking bugs to squish and then on to getting the stupid thing to compile applications. Fun fun fun

richmond62 · Post by **richmond62** » Tue Mar 17, 2026 1:45 pm

EEtalk . . . as in . . .

Emily-Elizabeth · Post by **Emily-Elizabeth** » Tue Mar 17, 2026 3:34 pm

richmond62 wrote: Tue Mar 17, 2026 1:45 pm EEtalk . . . as in . . .

I was thinking ehXTalk (eh being my initials and also something we Canadians say a lot

)

richmond62 · Post by **richmond62** » Tue Mar 17, 2026 4:36 pm

Not necessarily a bad idea.

stam · Post by **stam** » Tue Mar 17, 2026 9:46 pm

Why not go flashy?

How about:
HyperX (kinda joining HyperCard and xTalk)

Emily-Elizabeth · Post by **Emily-Elizabeth** » Tue Mar 17, 2026 9:48 pm

stam wrote: Tue Mar 17, 2026 9:46 pm HyperX (kinda joining HyperCard and xTalk)

That's a good name!

Emily-Elizabeth · Post by **Emily-Elizabeth** » Thu Mar 19, 2026 6:37 pm

I went with HyperXTalk.

richmond62 · Post by **richmond62** » Thu Mar 19, 2026 7:45 pm

Aha: when will you release it into the wild?

Emily-Elizabeth · Post by **Emily-Elizabeth** » Thu Mar 19, 2026 8:50 pm

Well right now I only have ARM "working" (I broke it the other day so it doesn't compile) but I put an installer on GitHub (you'll have to do the code signing on it as I need to figure out how to sign it when it's being built)

Emily-Elizabeth · Post by **Emily-Elizabeth** » Sat Mar 21, 2026 4:41 pm

richmond62 wrote: Thu Mar 19, 2026 7:45 pm Aha: when will you release it into the wild?

https://github.com/emily-elizabeth/HyperXTalk
You can download and follow the build instructions, but this only makes a build for ARM Macs. It still has all the Livecode branding, so need to get working on that.

Anyone here good at graphic design and making logos and icons and such? It's an unpaid position

stam · Post by **stam** » Sun Mar 22, 2026 11:12 am

Emily-Elizabeth wrote: Sat Mar 21, 2026 4:41 pm
richmond62 wrote: Thu Mar 19, 2026 7:45 pm Aha: when will you release it into the wild?
https://github.com/emily-elizabeth/HyperXTalk
You can download and follow the build instructions, but this only makes a build for ARM Macs. It still has all the Livecode branding, so need to get working on that.

Anyone here good at graphic design and making logos and icons and such? It's an unpaid position

I can help, time permitting.
My actual (non-coding) work is absorbing all my time right now (at present I’m 7 days into 12 days continuous 34 hour on-call), so I can probably tackle smaller discrete tasks rather than open-ended ones. Let me know…

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