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From: thom@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu (Thom Gillespie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Running "HyperCard" on a PC
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Date: 6 Sep 90 21:52:43 GMT
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ToolBook is a nice product. The problem is that is runs on Windows 3 -- still a
problem. Convertit does a pretty good job but it does leave you with that
20-30% which needs to be fixed. XCMDs, forget it... set aside some serious
worktime.

So far HyperCard is free or cheap -- I haven't meet anyone who admits to having
bought it. Apple sells hardware, what do you expect. But this does mean that
Hypercard is the pencil of electronic media today. Getting started was never
easier and who needs a run time version of a pencil. Look for ToolBook's
price to be cut in half at a minimum or else it will just be a developers
tool doing what was done in the past ... until someone invents the pencil for
the DOS world.

--Thom Gillespie