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From: dlw@hpsmtc1.HP.COM (David Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Forthcoming HyperCard DA from Symmetry (press release)
Message-ID: <16310006@hpsmtc1.HP.COM>
Date: 14 Jan 88 21:24:49 GMT
References: <6425@jade.BERKELEY.EDU>
Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
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After having played with a version of Hyperda, it is of limited value.

1) Visual effects are not supported.
2) Sound effects are not supported.
3) Hyperda supports an extremely limited subset of Hypertalk.
4) It is a neat concept (ie a good Hack), but all it would seem to do
   in my opinion is whet the appetite of a 512k user to upgrade to a 
   plus before it is too late (why spend $59 for a product that has
   less functionality than Hypercard which costs $49?), or to make
   a 1meg +/SE/II user long for more memory to run full hypercard
   under multifinder.
5) The fact that visual/sound effects are not present really dilutes
   much of the pizzazz of what Hypercard is about!
6) What would have been nicer would have been an Xcmd based product that
   enhanced the design of stackware(ie windows for editing scripts 
   rather than a dialog box, and sort of a source code debugger feature
   where you could have a window up that shows the hypertalk code being 
   that is currently executing while a script is  in action (a la
   Lightspeed Pascal).

Save your money for memory upgrades or in the case of 512k users upgrade
to a Mac+ or 512ke with more memory!

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David L. Williams
dlw@hpda
Hewlett Packard, Cupertino Ca
Software Development Technology Laboratory
Distributed Computing Environment Project
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