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From: tim@mcrware.UUCP (Tim Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: UltraCard (was: hypertext on amiga)
Message-ID: <1285@mcrware.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jul 89 14:39:34 GMT
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Reply-To: tim@mcrware.UUCP (Tim Harris)
Organization: Microware Systems Corp., Des Moines, Iowa
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	I don't own the official version of UltraCard but did get ahold of the 
browser and sample stacks which were posted on CIS recently.  Last night I
got home, un-zooed the whole thing and began running.  From the 15 minutes
I played with it I found I visited the guru more than a devout Yogi would.  
Specifically from the ControlRoom stack I could do info and programs and 
listen to my Amiga speak, I could NOT do the more... option without a visit
from the guru.  In the calendar stack I could look at the dates set on the
calendar for this month but when I tried to set a new date I instead saw the
guru.  From UltraDex I could sort and go to the first and last stack item
but got a guru doing a find.  
	Now I'm not saying UltraCard isn't neat or anything, just a bit buggy in
the version of the browser that was posted.  It is fairly quick though, I ran
it off of my hard drive and it didn't have any real delays in it at all.  The
screens look real nice, it does indeed let you jump around in stacks and the
Calendar stack alone is far better than any PD calendar program I've seen to
date, same goes for the UltraDex stack too.  My view, much like my view toward
PageStream, is that UltraCard has great potential, has a great price but is
just a bit too buggy right now.  I am not used to seeing the guru every
minute or two any more with the software I run, UltraCard just visits him too
often.
	I would be interested too in hearing from anyone who has actually bought
the real version of UltraCard to see if it crashes just as often, if it does
I'll wait until until 1.1 comes out before I spend my money.

	Tim Harris


NOTE: I just talked with a friend who ran it last night too from floppy.  He
said he only guru'ed once and that was from a OM error.  He said he could do
all the things I guru'ed on and also could have mutliple stacks open at the
same time.  Maybe it was my hard drive, maybe it was my A500, who knows????
What are others finding out with UltraCard?