Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!apple!chuq From: chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach, only here for the beer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard Subject: Re: Hypercard magazines Message-ID: <51949@apple.Apple.COM> Date: 24 Apr 91 18:02:03 GMT References: <1991Apr24.000245.11194@clark.edu> <1991Apr24.144453.3947@ecst.csuchico.edu> Organization: Dottie I's Private Eyes Lines: 38 rgoldstone@OAVAX.CSUCHICO.EDU (Robin Goldstone) writes: >I recently received info about a publication called "Inside HyperCard" from >the Cobb Group. Billed as "the HyperCrad-specific newsletter featuring >programming tips, tricks and techniques". I have not subscribed yet, but >am considering it. It is expensive, though: $50/year. They turn out a series of these newsletters -- inside word, inside excel, inside FileMaker. They're all expensive, and from the samples I've seen, none of them are worth what they charge. Maybe at half the price (they're not worthless, but simply not that good). On the other hand, they DO turn out some of the better third party manuals. The Cobb Group book on Word 4 is my 'bible' on the program. As to Hypercard, there were some early hypercard-specific magazines out there. They all, as far as I know, folded. Macintosh Hands-On took on hypercard as well (finally using it as an excuse to stop pushing Basic on the Mac). I think it's still around but I stopped reading it early on -- simply because it was too gosh-wow with very little depth or substance. If you're looking for hardcore Hypercard stuff, you're probably in trouble. MacTutor (which I have a love/hate relationship with -- lots of neat techie stuff, but also lots of typos, bugs, half-thought out ideas and the code can be a compatibility nightmare) does HC stuff. So did Macintosh Technical Journal, which just died (sigh). For detailed technical stuff and hacking, Mactutor, for all its weaknesses, is probably the best bet, but it's not specific to hypercard. -- Chuq Von Rospach >=< chuq@apple.com >=< GEnie: CHUQ >=< AppleLink: CHUQ SFWA Nebula Awards Reports Editor =+= Editor, OtherRealms Book Reviewer, Amazing Stories ---@--- #include Recommended: ORION IN THE DYING TIME Ben Bova (Tor, Aug, ***-); SACRED VISIONS Greeley&Cassutt (Tor, Aug, ****+); MEN AT WORK George Will (****); XENOCIDE Orson Scott Card (August, ****)