The founders of Mackarel, David Groff and Kevin Steele, have created A Biased History of Interactive Media which has a great chapter on When multimedia was black and white which reminds me (an old HyperCard programmer) of the “good old days.” The chapter is a great little intro to early multimedia on the Mac. They mention a number of then new HyperCard stacks like Robert Winter’s CD Companion to Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony leading up to their Mackarel Stack, which I remember. The interface to the chapter is deliberately HyperCard-like.
Chapter 2 is about “When bevelled edges were cool” … remember those days? Shudder?