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From: dano@ssc-vax.UUCP (Dan Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,alt.hypertext
Subject: Re: Hypertext on IBM-PCs
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Date: 8 Jun 90 04:32:36 GMT
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In article <12858@netcom.UUCP> ergo@netcom.UUCP (Isaac Rabinovitch) writes:
>If WildCard is the same product I recently read about, it allegedly
>has an intriguing feature:  it can import Macintosh Hypercard stacks
>(provided, of course you can get them onto MS-DOS media) *as-is*.
>If this is true, it means that the WildCard user community will
>just be an extension of the Hypercard user community -- always a
>powerful argument in favor of a program.

Another package called PLUS, which is already available on the
Macintosh, reads HyperCard stacks directly and was/is supposed to be
available for the PC.  If it really works, it would seemingly open up
a whole bunch of stackware to the PC.  Only problem is, most of the
good stacks are dependent on XCMDs and XFCNs.  These are 68000 Mac code
resources, which I can't image being runnable on a Intel based
machine, unless you want to try to emulate 68000 machine code - could
be kinda slow - and the Mac toolbox routines.

One other hitch to these PC - HyperCard reading products, I 've heard
that Apple probably won't appreciate it, since the file formats for
HyperCard, I believe, are proprietary.  PLUS on the Mac and SuperCard are
ok, since they help sell Macs, but on the PC, that's a no-no.

-- 
Dan Olson  (UUCP ..!uw-beaver!ssc-vax!dano)
"Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box."
- Italian Proverb