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From: dlw@hpsmtc1.HP.COM (David L. Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: SuperCard questions
Message-ID: <11540183@hpsmtc1.HP.COM>
Date: 26 May 89 15:39:07 GMT
References: <89145.133406EXZ@PSUVM>
Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
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EXZ@PSUVM.BITNET asks:
>I've read a bit in MacWeek, etc. about SuperCard, but have some specific
>questions:

>Stacks can be saved as stand-alone programs--does this mean that a single
>  file has all necessary info to run the stack?  If so, this makes distribution
>  of a stack much easier than with HyperCard.

Yes.
>Silicon Beach admits to "some performance penalty relative to HyperCard"--
>presumably the penalty in mostly slower speed (oh no!).  Anybody have more
>info on this?

It is slow when dealing with color stuff particularly. I haven't really played
with straight black and white since I wanted to try out the new features:

Multiple windows, color etc.
>Steve Dahm

David