delaneyg@wnre.aecl.ca ("H. Grant Delaney") (11/08/90)
Roger Wagner was not worried about APPLE's hyper Card when I talked to him in Kansas City last July. We had both just seen the product (sorry I signed non disclosure) and Roger felt that system requirement already mentioned and the advantage he already had of an installed base of both uses and developed stacks made his product more attractive. He also saw the Multi-Media capabilities of his product as a real asset. We will have to see how many Mac developers take advantage of the conversion utilities (previously mentioned) to convert existing Mac Stacks to the GS.
sb@pnet91.cts.com (Stephen Brown) (11/09/90)
delayneyg@wnre.aecl.ca ("H. Grant Delaney") writes: >Roger Wagner was not worried about APPLE's hyper Card when I talked to him I'm not surprised... HyperStudio and HyperCard are two entirely different approaches to the same problem. They have very few things in common but their goal. HyperStudio is self scripting... in fact no scripts are used except for XCMDs. XCMDs are not terribly useful unless you have the MASTER.XCMD that allows multiple XCMDs (try the HyperStudio XCMD Library Disk Volume 1) and (not that I've really thought about it), you'd write an XFCN as an XCMD. On the other hand, HyperCard is Script dependent. That makes it much more powerful (just read Apple's book on the HyperTalk language) but much harder to use, and even harder to become particularly skilled at, unless you are a programmer. Fortunately most of us here have programming experience. I have used HyperStudio 2.1 to write a good number of stacks (some of which are available on GEnie, I might add... as shareware) and I understand HyperStudio well enough to understand its present limits. Its a darn good program. I have not actually written HyperCard stacks, but I have read a lot on the subject. I can't see the limits of HyperCard. Regardless, Roger Wagner is working on version 3.0, which will undoubtedly extend the program's scope, and make it that much more desirable. HyperCard GS will have a dampening affect on the Hypermedia market for the IIGS, just as AppleWorks (classic) has had a dampening affect on the wordprocessor market for the IIe. But dampening is not equivalent to decimating. So Roger Wagner really has nothing to fear... I M H O Stephen Brown Apple II Forever (please) UUCP: lsuc!graham!pnet91!sb INET: sb@pnet91.cts.com