Been busy with another project and also getting a job. Only update I have is that somebody HAS made a native emulator for HyperCard already, in Java, that's about 80% complete.
It also only runs with "./gradlew run" somehow (I can't get the compiled jar to work), and I'm unsure if I would want to contribute to a Java project (the "other" project i'm working on is literally something that makes it so I no longer have to work in Java when making MC plugins)
But it's there, I guess.
https://github.com/defano/wyldcard
It's good for me if i want to continue my recreation; I cannot get the file format code right so this is now a more cleaner code base that I can copy