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Dale Dougherty, editor and publisher of MAKE: asks for a HyperCard like program for the iPad in his article The iPad needs its HyperCard. Dale, it exists and its called Runrev.If you are a long time Mac user, chances are you know about HyperCard, an incredible authoring tool that used to ship free with every Macintosh that used an English like language called HyperTalk. HyperCard was incredibly useful, but did not survive the return of Steve Jobs to Apple. Then along game Runtime Revolution, with everything that HyperCard lacked, including support for all modern programming paradigms. But Revolution goes beyond that – because you can build apps for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X from the same source project.

Now in beta, Rev Mobile will allow deployment to mobile platforms, including iPhone and iPad. You can get started though working with Runrev by downloading the free Revolution Media.

I don’t want to jump on another Snakes on a Plane style  iPad discussion, but I will admit that the iPad is an interesting mobile platform as an extension to the iPhone platform. Revolution is blossoming into an incredible cross-platform development tool already. It already has a powerful 3D engine as well as Valentina DB support.