sdl@lyra.mitre.org (Steven D. Litvinchouk) (03/18/91)
I really need a Hypercard-like product for my Amiga 2000, but upon
cursory inspection it appears both HyperBook and CanDo might be
suitable. Does anyone have any strong opinions in favor of one or the
other?
Specifically: Do both HyperBook and CanDo support 640 x 400 interlace
mode? How about overscan?
How easy would a simple animation (i.e. some boxes moving around the
screen) be to do in each?
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"Where does he get those wonderful toys?"yorkw@stable.ecn.purdue.edu (Willis F York) (03/19/91)
sdl@lyra.mitre.org (Steven D. Litvinchouk) writes: >I really need a Hypercard-like product for my Amiga 2000, but upon >cursory inspection it appears both HyperBook and CanDo might be >suitable. Does anyone have any strong opinions in favor of one or the >other? >Specifically: Do both HyperBook and CanDo support 640 x 400 interlace >mode? How about overscan? Well Cando supports all the resolutions, haven't noticed if it supports overscan yet.. (Never told it to try..) >How easy would a simple animation (i.e. some boxes moving around the >screen) be to do in each? In cando ya could do it very easially, by using a BrushAnim. (Or a brush), ya then tell the brush(anim) to move around. I'd wait and check out Cando ver 1.5 (V1.05?) (The NEW version) that is to be out reall soon. Cando can do a LOT more then Hypercard-like stuff. -- yorkw@ecn.purdue.edu Willis F York (Hope THIS sig don't insult anyone!)
baronz@caen.engin.umich.edu (Aaron L Richards) (03/19/91)
In article <SDL.91Mar18132327@lyra.mitre.org>, sdl@lyra.mitre.org (Steven D. Litvinchouk) writes: > > Specifically: Do both HyperBook and CanDo support 640 x 400 interlace > mode? How about overscan? > > How easy would a simple animation (i.e. some boxes moving around the > screen) be to do in each? I have used CanDo extensively (Over 10 hours a day for 5 days, and 6 hours a day for another week) and it will do 640X400 interlace with little problem. Let me state that I was using version 1.02 with an Amiga 1000 w/1.5 MB RAM and no hard drive. The version I had would not do overscan, and did not even offer the option. It would easily move boxes (Dpaint brushes) in linear paths on the monitor in three script statements (which includes a statement to load the brus.) The v1.02 was very touchy however. If I did not give it the disk it wanted when it wanted it (during the development stage of my program) it would pop up a requester stating "CanDo internal error" blah blah blah, and give me the option of quitting CanDo, or saving my current project and then quitting CanDo. I also had problems originally trying to set up a high-res 16 color interlace screen. CanDo eats up so much chip memory for its development system (I had only 512K of chip) that I had many frustrating moments (hours!) spinning my wheels. I had the local Amiga dealer loan me a 3000 to do a demo for a professor of mine of a special project that I was using CanDo to work on and lo-and-behold but CanDo wouldn't run on the 3000. According to INNOVAtronics, the current version of CanDo will run on the 3000. INNOVAtronics is releasing version 1.5 of their CanDo product even as we speak. It has I was told floating-point support, multiple windows per screen (the earlier version would not do this), will run on the 3000, has data-base support, etc. From my personal dealings with the package, I would not recommend using CanDo unless you have a hard drive, 1 Meg of chip ram. If your system fulfills those requirements, CanDo seems to easily, and quickly make good programs What I mean by this is thaCanDo easily allows you to set up screens and windows, gadgets with text and graphics, control Dpaint brushes/animations, IFF pictures, sound, the serial port, scrolling lists with sliders, and lots of Intuition features easily. If you are familiar with basic, or programming concepts in general, you will find CanDo a breeze. Once you run your CanDo "Deck" it seems to take up a reasonable amount of memory, and it executes fairly rapidly. Even on my stock 68000, I was never upset by the performance of the stand-alone programs produced by CanDo. Granted, I was not computing fractals, or doing large matricies but the performance was good. -- * President MACRO on Campus * * (Michigan's Amiga Computer Resource Organization) * * Senior Computer Consultant -> Organizational Studies Lab * * Amiga Student Representative on Campus * * baronz@caen.engin.umich.edu * * Aaron_l._Richards.ubmts.cc.umich.edu *