Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!usc!sdd.hp.com!wuarchive!psuvax1!swatsun!hcunix.haverford.edu!eoliver From: eoliver@hcunix.haverford.edu (Erik Oliver) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard Subject: Re: Hypercard 2.1... Message-ID: Date: 17 May 91 17:03:03 GMT References: <3586@spim.mips.COM> <32946@usc> <53000@apple.Apple.COM> Sender: news@cs.swarthmore.edu Organization: Swarthmore College, PA, USA Lines: 19 Nntp-Posting-Host: hcunix.haverford.edu As an owner of Hypercard 1.2.5, I must say that I am extremely frustrated with the fact that Hypercard and the System Software is now a paying item. I have completely stopped using Hypercard in response to the charge they are assesing for the new versions. The reason people used hypercard was that (1) you knew everyone had it so you could write help stacks or small stacks that did nifty things (2) it was easy to get if you didn't have it. Now, not everyone has it or is going to bother getting it. I certainly have no intention of doing so. Also, having used all the mac operatining systems back as far as 1.0, I can tell you that most of them especially since around 3.2 have been extremely BUGGY. I have no intention of putting 7.0 on my macintosh until version 7.0.5 or so comes out. I will not pay money to be a beta tester. System 7.0 has too many new bells and whistles and most likely has just as many bugs. $99 to be a beta tester is a lot of money. Erik Opininated Shareholder with not enough clout to do squat.