Xref: utzoo comp.multimedia:643 comp.sys.amiga.multimedia:336 Newsgroups: comp.multimedia,comp.sys.amiga.multimedia Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!tcapener From: tcapener@watserv1.waterloo.edu (CAPENER TD - ENGLISH ) Subject: Re: Authoring Systems for Amiga Message-ID: <1991Jun26.011946.216@watserv1.waterloo.edu> Organization: University of Waterloo References: <1991Jun24.004403.13909@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> <91175.075746AUBRI@ASUACAD.BITNET> Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1991 01:19:46 GMT Lines: 42 In article <91175.075746AUBRI@ASUACAD.BITNET>, writes: > There are several authoring systems available for the Amiga. [original author's observations deleted] AmigaVision (IMHO) not designed with text-based applications in mind at all. CanDo (IMHO) potentially very powerful but has too many bugs to be reliable in serious applications (v. 1.2--I've been waiting for v. 1.5 for months now) HyperBook (IMHO) the best of the lot so far. Still leaves a lot to be desired. It seems to me the creators of Hyperbook wanted to do a HyperCard but didn't quite grasp exactly what made HyperCard such a good program. The program nicely overcomes many of HyperCard's weaknesses, but lacks almost all of HyperCard's strengths (that it blurs the line between programmer and end user, its power to import and export, and the control it gives over the operating system). > Foundation: Soon to be released... > Product demo looks very promising. > Said to work like HyperCard. > *Imports HyperCard stacks!!* (Add Amiga gfx/sound to stacks!) > > Feel free to ask any other questions! > --- > |-------------------------------------------------------------------| > | Brian C. Berg "I haven't lost my mind... | > | Arizona State University Amiga Lab it's backed up on tape | > | Amiga Student On-Campus Consultant somewhere!" | > | E-mail: aubri@asuacad.BITNET | > |-------------------------------------------------------------------| > | Opinions expressed are not necessarily unlike that of my own... | > |--------------------------------------------------------------------| Foundation sounds like it could be what I'm looking for too (obviously HyperCard on the Amiga). Who is making it and how soon is soon? Travis Capener