Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bbn!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!mp1u+ From: mp1u+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael Portuesi) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: How 'Bout HyperCard! Message-ID: Date: 5 May 88 20:22:54 GMT References: <15372@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> Organization: Carnegie Mellon Lines: 37 In-Reply-To: <15372@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> Thomas Sarver offers us the following plea: > I WANT HYPERCARD FOR THE AMIGA! > Now that we know what I want, let's talk about the possibilities. > I spent about six months of '87 waiting for the news on the Magic Sac for the > Amiga. I slobbered over the Atari ST because it had one. I was willing to > buy one purely to buy HyperCard. I bought Starboard 2Mb so I would have the > room ( I could have gotten by with Alegra otherwise). In summary, demand>! You waited in vain. Hypercard requires the features present in the Mac 128K ROMs and higher. The Magic Sac uses the old Mac 64K roms. It *cannot* run HyperCard. Wanting to buy an ST so you can run Mac software is silly. The Magic Sac will be a dead product as soon as Mac 64K ROMs are in short supply, and so obsolete that current Mac software won't run with them. Moral: If you want to emulate a Mac, buy a Mac. > Get Apple to license a port on a per/copy basis. The plan stops there. HyperCard sells lots of Macintoshes, and Apple is unlikely to allow software that runs exclusively on their hardware to be ported to other machines. Their lawsuit against HP and Microsoft demonstrates that they are not interested in losing the features that make their product unique. Come to think of it, since Claris distributes HyperCard and not Apple, it would not be Apple that would license the port. But you can be sure Claris won't allow it either. Moral: A third-party Amiga software house is going to have to come out with a HyperCard clone. --M