Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!wuarchive!decwrl!bacchus.pa.dec.com!hollie.rdg.dec.com!decvax.dec.com!zinn!wgc386!slum!laird From: laird@slum.MV.COM (Laird Heal) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard Subject: Re: Chill Out Summary: Ice cold Message-ID: <1990Oct29.174648.261@slum.MV.COM> Date: 29 Oct 90 17:46:48 GMT References: Organization: dis Lines: 35 In article ba0k+@andrew.cmu.edu (Brian Patrick Arnold) writes: > >To everyone fuming mad at Apple and Claris over HyperCard 2.0's release: > I chilled out the instant I heard it was unbundled. >[...] it's clear from the HyperCard team itself that most of us ought to >wait for the next official announcement before jumping to any more >conclusions. Do you remember how well Claris supported MacWrite after Apple transferred it to them? The Tech Notes on the MacWrite file formats were changed to refer to Claris, who refused even to provide the information to an Apple engineer who had to ask the net for copies of the original notes (on MacWrite 2.2 and 4.5). > >I personally look forward to real documentation and real programming >tools from Claris in the $50-100 range. I look forward to the day when stuff I might otherwise want to read comes as a Hypercard 2.0-only stack. Then I'll trash Hypercard 1.2.5 from my hard disks. If Apple expects me to spend money for something that is no more good to me than to look over some stacks a few others have written, then they should realize that what they are doing is removing HyperCard as its place as the lingua franca of Macintosh. I looked over HyperCard when it came out and the XFCN interface was not versatile enough for me, but like MacWrite before it, because everyone had a copy you could transfer files easily. I did not buy MacWrite 5.0, and I do not anticipate buying HyperCard 2.0 or accepting a limited version. -- Laird Heal laird@slum.MV.COM The world is my office. (Salem, NH) +1 603 898 1406<-----I charge for opinions, though.