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From: parora@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu (Pavneet Arora)
Date: Thu, 31-Dec-87 20:31:53 EST
Message-ID: <1987Dec31.203153.28991@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu>
Organization: University of Toronto Computing Services
Subject: Zoomracks (i.e. Hypercard's predecessor?)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st


I was just reading this quarter's STart magazine (Wint87), and came across an
article on Zoomracks - an ST product which sounds a lot like Hypercard for the
Mac.  One major difference being that Zoomracks has been around for 3 years.

The article is interesting.  If anyone has used the product, perhaps they
can post their views.

Why hasn't this product come to light earlier?   One thing I did notice was
that the screens used in this article gave a definite edge to Hypercard
since there were beautiful graphics mixed with text.  Is this a shortcoming
of Zoomracks?

By the way the author of Zoomracks is Paul Heckel - the same person who
developed the Craig Language Translator and wrote "The Elements of
Friendly Software Design" (This is from the article).

Pavneet Arora
parora@utgpu