dcw@goldilocks.lcs.mit.edu (11/21/90)
From page 5: DEVELOPERS GET HYPERCARD IIGS BETA Cupertino, Cailf. - Apple IIgs users can look forward to a Christmas gift from Apple this year: their own version of Hypercard. Apple released a beta version of HyperCard IIgs to developers last week on the most recent volume of the Apple Developer Essentials CD-ROM disc, Night of the Living Disc. The application cannot run Hypercard stacks directly, but a pair of IIgs and Mac stacks called HyperMover help convert HyperCard 1.2.5 stacks to HyperCard IIgs format. Externals need to be recompiled to run on the IIgs. Although HyperCard IIgs is based on HyperCard 1.2.5, it indcludes features that even its big sister, HyperCard 2.0, lacks: full color graphics (16 colors from a 4,096-color palette); colored objects such as text, buttons and fields; and a graphical navigation palette. Sources said Apple was scheduled to announce HyperCard IIgs at last month's introduction of the low-cost Macintoshes, but the release "fell between the cracks." It is now scheduled for introduction at the AppleFest trade show in Long Beach, Calif., in early December. Apple declined comment. -- Dave Whitney Computer Science MIT 1990 | I wrote Z-Link and BinSCII. Send me bug dcw@lcs.mit.edu | reports. I need a job. Send me an offer. Every now and then one makes a mistake. Mine was probably this post.