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From: gandalf@apple.com (Martin Gannholm)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: System 6.0.7 vs. Hypercard 1.2.5
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Date: 18 Oct 90 20:22:17 GMT
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In article <47242@cornell.UUCP> hal@krishna.cs.cornell.edu (Hal Perkins) 
writes:
> What's the deal here?  Why does HyperCard 1.2.5 work with System 6.0.5
> but not with 6.0.7?  So much for upward compatability.

Sound, sound, sound...the sound manager in System 6.0.7 is (supposedly) 
the same as the one that will appear in System 7.0.
  This sound manager changed a lot of eh, shall we say features, of the 
sound stuff that HyperCard 1.2.5 relied on thus breaking the sound code in 
1.2.5.

There may be other problems as well, but this is certainly the "show 
stopper". If you want to _try_ to use the 1.2.5/6.0.7 combination (it's a 
free world, right?) I would strongly suggest putting "on beep...end beep" 
and "on play...end play" handlers into your home stack.
  I have no idea if this will work, but if you _don't_, I'm pretty sure it 
won't.

Martin Gannholm
Apple Computer

Exclaimer!!!   I typed this myself = I speak for myself...
..or..I never said it...Nobody heard me say it...You can't prove anything!