Oracle Media Objects

In the early days of HyperCard at least two alternative tools were created outside of Apple Computer, Plus and SuperCard. Plus was very much like HyperCard, whereas SuperCard split the authoring and viewing parts of the application. SuperCard is still a shipping product.

Plus went on to become more than one product. One variation was WinPlus, which was a Microsoft Windows only version of the program. The other variation didn't appear until a few years later, when Oracle acquired the source code and developed it to become Oracle Media Objects (often referred to by users as OMO).

Unlike HyperCard, SuperCard, and WinPlus, Oracle Media Objects was cross-platform, running on both Macintosh and Windows operating systems. Other competitive tools of that era were mTropolis and Macromedia Director.

OMO didn't last very long, with development ceasing after version 1.1.2. There were very few products built using the tool. Amongst these were the "Our Secret Century" series of CD-ROMs published by The Voyager Company (the series was intended to be 12 discs, and 10 did ship before Voyager's CD-ROM line was acquired by another company, leaving the remaining two discs unfinished) and Inside Independence Day made by ACES Entertainment.