Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!cognos!alb
From: alb@cognos.UUCP (Al Belyea)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Re: Desktop hypertext/multimedia platforms
Message-ID: <9389@cognos.UUCP>
Date: 6 Mar 91 15:31:46 GMT
References: <38667@netnews.upenn.edu>
Reply-To: alb@cognos.UUCP (Al Belyea)
Organization: Cognos Inc., Ottawa, Canada
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In article <38667@netnews.upenn.edu> gasser@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Nate Gasser) writes:
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>Calling all hypertext/multimedia fans,
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>    I'm looking to create a hypertext/multimedia educational product
                                                  ^^^^^^^^^^^
Which educational market are you targetting? Primary? Grade? High-school?
University?

If you are targetting anything from primary to high-school levels, you may
want to consider using a Mac with HyperCard 1.25 (instead of 2.0). Why you 
ask? Well, a LOT of schools also have Apple IIGS's. And Apple just released 
HyperCard GS which is basically HyperCard 1.25 with full colour support and
better sound support. Contains full HyperTalk support too. Apple also
released a utility called HyperMover which will convert from Mac HC to 
HCGS and vice versa. (actually its one stack on the Mac and a similar stack
on the GS).

So, by going with HyperCard, you can also very easily double the size of 
your target market machines, and if you can easily convert HyperCard stacks
to an IBM-type machine, then you can triple your target market machines.

BTW, HCGS with full colour support (ie for individual objects) looks real
fine. It'll be nice when Mac HC supports that too.




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