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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: More HyperCard
Message-ID: <14344@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 6 Nov 90 03:51:19 GMT
References: <0BB7D43B4DFF809804@snybufva.bitnet>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <0BB7D43B4DFF809804@snybufva.bitnet> NOWAKO09@SNYBUFVA.BITNET (APPLE //GS - THE POWER TO BE YOUR BEST) writes:
>        I've been hearing alot about this Hypercard recently, isn't this just
>the same thing from Roger Wagner thats been around for a few years? Whats so
>different about it now?

No, the RWP product is HyperStudio.  HyperCard is an Apple product, first
developed by Bill Atkinson as I recall for the Macintosh.  There was quite
a battle inside Apple to allow it to be released; the argument was that it
would discourage third-party software developers.  Eventually it was added
to the Macintosh "out-of-the-box" package.

>Does this mean that Apple intended the GS to have CD capabilities?

It already does!  Get a SCSI interface and Apple's CD-ROM drive, and GS/OS
already fully supports it (the ISO standard format only, not HFS).  I think
you need to set its SCSI priority to 2 in order to obtain a sufficient boot
delay, as explained in Apple SCSI manuals.

The real problem is that there is VERY little software for the IIGS on
CD-ROMs at present, basically just developer tools (at the same time,
Apple wants GS development to be done on a Mac anyway!)