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From: robertw@informix.com (Rob Weinberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: 2.0 development--opinion
Keywords: HyperCard 3.0 usergroup release
Message-ID: <1990Nov30.174104.2103@informix.com>
Date: 30 Nov 90 17:41:04 GMT
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In article <1990Nov29.193346.12451@ccad.uiowa.edu> emcguire@ccad.uiowa.edu (Ed McGuire) writes:
>1.  HyperCard has been improved, both in features and performance.

Incredibly so, IMHO. You can have open 18 stacks at once, open many
scripts at once to copy and paste between, there is a run-time
debugger, built-in icon editor, any size card you want, etc. And 
report printing is a whole new ballgame, virtually desktop publishing
in miniature.

>2.  HyperCard stack development, which was supported and documented
>    free in version 1, now costs money.  All you get now bundled with a
>    new Macintosh:
>      - the HyperCard program
>      - 35-page Getting Started manual
>      - three sample stacks
>    No Beginners' Guide to Scripting, no HyperCard Help, no idea stacks.

Since I have always gotten my HyperCard updates from a users' group
(BMUG in Berkeley, CA), the cost is essentially the same to me now
as it has always been, in this case $15 for 5 disks. This includes
many demonstration stacks, and seperate help stacks for HyperCard
and HyperTalk. These help stacks are much better organized then
the old help stacks, especially with the new abilities to open windoids
and mulitiple stacks (which are well-implemented here).

I don't know about the bundled and Claris versions, but from my
point of view, I have gotten far more free functionality from this
HyperCard release than from any other software developer anywhere.


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