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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: UltraCard vs CanDo
Keywords: hypertext, hypermedia, hypercard, hyperetc.
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Date: 23 Mar 90 20:20:14 GMT
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In <13271@burdvax.PRC.Unisys.COM>, raf@PRC.Unisys.COM (Ralph A. Foy) writes:
>It's about time to by my machine a present, and after hearing about
>some of the wonderful things Mac users do with hypercard,  I was considering
>getting either UltraCard or CanDo. Mary from Safe Harbor said that her
>husband and son prefer CanDo, but frankly I never heard of it.
>
>Does anyone have any experience with either product they wish to share?

I have both, and CanDo is by far the better product, from a few different
points of view.

Bugs: Very few in CanDo. LOTS in Ultracard. I was unable to build even simple
stacks in Ultracard, using version 1.2.1, and though I hear he has a bug free
version out now, I will be taking a wait-and-see stance.

User interface: Ultracard, Ugh! Cando, Nice!

After having been fished in once before by a product from Mike Lehman
(Maxicomm), and after having heard horror stories about MaxiPlan (Plan-It), I
get the feeling I'll just end up writing off my investment.

CanDo, on the other hand, has allowed me to easily and quickly build a user
interface to control a couple of programs, and has done so without inviting the
GURU.

-larry

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