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From: bskendig@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Brian Kendig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: HyperCard 2.0
Message-ID: <11669@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 21 Nov 89 21:51:01 GMT
References: <31728@watmath.waterloo.edu> <14078@boulder.Colorado.EDU> <36655@apple.Apple.COM> <14106@boulder.Colorado.EDU> <9034@hoptoad.uucp>
Reply-To: bskendig@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Brian Kendig)
Organization: Systems Engineering, NASA Space Station Freedom Project
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In article <9034@hoptoad.uucp> tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney) writes:
>... I am writing a stack that needs more than HyperCard
>1.2.2 can give, and it would be nice to know if I could expect these
>things to appear in HyperCard 2.0, or if I should be spending a great
>deal of time researching alternative hypersoftware and writing XCMDs to
>try to solve my problems.  Apple's reticence on HyperCard 2.0 features
>is causing real damage to this project.

Here, the hush-hush about HyperCard 2.0 is helping my project in the
short run, but spelling its death in the long run.  As long as there
are no upgrades planned (read: announced) for HyperCard, I judge it at
face value, and therefore I find SuperCard *much* better suited for
the stuff I have to do (color, full screen).  However, SuperCard
doesn't appear to be all-kosher with the Apple guidelines, so it will
(quite assuredly) break with System 7...

I really do wish that HyperCard 2.0 had been announced like System 7
was.  In that case, I could have been able to plan for the new
features available to me and program accordingly.

     << Brian >>

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