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From: dlw@hpsmtc1.HP.COM (David L. Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: SuperCard
Message-ID: <16310015@hpsmtc1.HP.COM>
Date: 7 Mar 89 00:19:39 GMT
References: <1218POTELLE@MAINE>
Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
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>John A Potelle asks:
>Has anyone heard of SuperCard ?  Its supposed to be a HyperCard like (but
>not clone) application that has many enhanced features that HyperCard lacks.

Just saw a complete demo at ComputerWare by a Silicon Beach rep. This baby
is slick! BUT the beta version is SLOOOOOOOOOOWWW, course this thing is so
functionally feature rich its not surprising that initial versions are not
optimized yet.

It has support for everything Hypercard 2.0 OUGHT to be.

- Multiple Windows support.
- Scrollable Windows.
- Full Color support.
- Autotrace.
- Able to import TIFF, paint, pict, pict2 images.
- Support for bitmaps (paint) and objects (draw) modes.
- Multiple "stacks" can be open at once.
- Support for full Macintosh User Interface
	- Pulldown Menus
	- Pop Up Menus
	- Tear off floating palettes.
	- Dialog boxes.
	- Scroll Bars (Why does Bill Atkinson Hate Scrollable windows?).
- Ability to generate Standalone macintosh applications.
- Supports Xcmds etc.

Basically you convert your existing Hypercard stacks to SuperCard format.

Has a separate editing program called Superedit to change the scripts. Again
it goes far beyond the modal dialog box of Hypercard. Course Apple ought to
just bundle something like HyperEdit in as the editing environment for 
HyperCard. By the way HyperEdit was written by Doug Werner @ Apple (Werner1).


If Silicon Beach can get the performance up to a decent level (ie equal to
current Hypercard this thing will sell like HOTCAKES. 

>I don't remember the company that wrote it but its supposed to be out
>by the second quarter of this year.  Comments ?

Published by Silicon Beach out in April I think. $199 retail.

>John A. Potelle  POTELLE@MAINE.BITNET

-David
"Silicon Beach just raised the stakes, will the Hypercard team see or fold?"