RAFST3@vms.cis.pitt.edu (05/31/91)
Greetings. For what it is worth, I have a hypercard 2.0 stack that has macintalk inside of it. It is implemented through some sort of an xcmd, and never gave me problems using 6.0.x. I hadn't tried it since I upgraded to 7.0, because I expected it to crash into the proverbial brick wall. Today, I decided to give it a shot, and lo and behold, the fool thing worked just fine. I haven't tried it under Hypercard 2.1, because I haven't got it yet. Anyway, the stack seems to work quite well, and it didn't crash anything while I was using it. My system is a IIcx, running system 7.0 (5 real megs and 3 virtual megs), and a bunch of extensions. I am stuffing and binhexing the thing, and I will send it to info-mac and comp.sys.mac.binaries soon. If anyone wants a copy before it shows up, let me know. I originally got it from America Online, and it is called "HC 2.0 Macintalk". So don't give up hope of hearing your computer ever talk again! Later......... Read Fritsch rafst3@pitt.vms.cis.edu
omh@cs.brown.edu (Owen M. Hartnett) (05/31/91)
Macintalk still works with System 7.0. Reports of its death are exagerrated (but not greatly!). Early attempts to squeeze it out of the system were met by the undeniable wisdom that there is nothing to replace it with, at least not yet. -Owen P.S. I know I misspelled exagerrated - it's been a long day. Owen Hartnett omh@cs.brown.edu "FAITH, n. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel." -Ambrose Bierce - The Devil's Dictionary
bin@primate.wisc.edu (Brain in Neutral) (05/31/91)
Have you tried setting the system beep to something besides the default, then running this stack, then doing something that will generate a beep? Paul DuBois dubois@primate.wisc.edu