Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!maytag!watdragon!crocus!vehaag
From: vehaag@crocus.uwaterloo.ca (Viktor Haag)
Subject: Re: NeXT hypercard analogues
Message-ID: <1990Nov9.184957.14763@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Keywords: hypercard
Sender: daemon@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Owner of Many System Processes)
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References: <1990Nov9.070607.13585@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 90 18:49:57 GMT
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In article <1990Nov9.070607.13585@Neon.Stanford.EDU> hitt@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Daniel Hitt) writes:
>I have been informed that there is no analogue to hypercard for
>the NeXT.
>
>Does anyone have a different understanding?

According to the Fall '90 Software and Peripherals manual from NeXT, there is a
Hypercard analogue called HyperCube, that acts as far as I could tell from the
advert in a very similar manner (if nothing else the terms used for the app and
the app's 'scripting language' - CubeTalk I think or something similar - were
very suggestive of the HyperCard product).  HyperCube has its own scripting
language (cf) and the screen shot makes it look a lot like the Mac product.

IMO this would be nice but I really hope that its not a Mac app moved to the
NeXT environment.  For example, I hope that the card size is not limited to a 
9" area (same size as the small Mac screen).

HyperCube claims to be compatible with HyperCard though (scripts will port, and
I think that the actual stacks will too, but I am unsure on this last one), so
I bet that pesky 9" limit will be there for now.

I personally would be very interested in this product.

vik
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