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HyperCard under Executor
Dear Folks,
We're reassessing what works and what is close so we can know what
cool demos we'll be able to do under Executor/DOS. As such I just
took a look at HyperCard 2.1. Here's what I found:
1) It doesn't run at all under NS/Intel. This is very dissapointing
because it does sort of run under NS/Motorola and that shows that
there is still at least some difference between the two. I'll look
into this soon.
2) It limps under NS/Motorola. You'll need to set Refresh to some
small number (like 4 if you're going to drive the train, or 20 if
you're not doing animation) and want to turn on Accelerated Graphics.
3) Some stacks work only if they're made Read-Only. I'm looking into
this right now. It might be a good idea to write-protect all your
stacks if you're playing with Executor and HyperCard now anyway.
4) Some numeric items can't be read from fields (I suspect this is
due to problems with our hokey Script Manager implementation). I'm
looking into this too.
We won't be advertising Executor as running HyperCard, but if you are
interested in HyperCard and it's not too hard for you to get it onto
your NeXT, you might want to take a look at it under 1.2.2g; we've
come a long way and that's without doing any work at all that is
HyperCard specific, it's just from fixing other "penetrating" bugs.
The sale officially ends today, but I know some people have had a
hard time reaching us this last week, so if you still want to get in
on the sale price, call/FAX/send e-mail today, but if we can't get
back to you 'til tomorrow or Thursday we'll still let you in on the
sale price.
--Cliff