Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!jdevoto From: jdevoto@Apple.COM (Jeanne A. E. DeVoto) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard Subject: Re: Claris HC vss Apple's freebe Message-ID: <48639@apple.Apple.COM> Date: 30 Jan 91 04:41:37 GMT References: <385@rc6.urc.tue.nl> Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA Lines: 35 In article <385@rc6.urc.tue.nl> wsinrobg@eutws1.win.tue.nl (Rob Gerth) writes: >Can anybody clarify the advantages of buying Claris HC over getting it >for free from Apple? Is it only a matter of documentation or what? The version of HyperCard 2.0 that's bundled with new CPUs includes the HyperCard application itself, a crippled Home stack (limited to userlevel 1 and 2, unless you know the word of power*), and Address and Appointments stacks. There is also a 35-page pamphlet introducing the use of HyperCard. The user group version consists of five disks, including the application, a fully enabled Home stack (three, actually), a disk of Help stacks, a Power Tools stack including a resource mover and palette maker, and many example stacks. Caveat: I am not sure whether user groups are still licensed to distribute HyperCard; I think the licenses ran out at the end of the year, and I don't know whether they were renewable. The $49 Claris upgrade is available to owners of HyperCard 1.x and includes the five-disk set with help stacks, examples, etc., the 35-page Intro booklet, and the Addison-Wesley Script Language Guide. The $199 developer package from Claris includes the five disks and (I have heard) 5 manuals totalling 1400 pages. I believe that the Claris packages are the only ones that include 2.0v2. Some third-party products also include the 2.0v2 application under license. * which is "magic", typed into the message box while on the last card of the Home stack. -- ========= jeanne a. e. devoto ======================================== jdevoto@apple.com | You may not distribute this article under a jdevoto@well.sf.ca.us | compilation copyright without my permission. ______________________________________________________________________ Apple Computer and I are not authorized | CI$: 72411,165 to speak for each other. |