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- From: g_rehn@csuvax1.murdoch.edu.au (Geoff Rehn)
- Subject: Re: Runtime Hypercard 2.1 player
- Message-ID: <g_rehn-231192165140@esumac18.csu.murdoch.edu.au>
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- Organization: External Studies Unit, Murdoch Uni.
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- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 92 08:50:04 GMT
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- > Has anyone out there played with the new HyperCard Player yet?
- > I saw an article in MacWeek about it, that it would be bundled with
- > the new machines and was indeed just a player -- no user scripting was
- > possible. There was also mention of developers being able to imbed
- > enough of HyperCard to make the stacks work as standalones.
- >
- > I am interested for two reasons:
- > 1) to make sure that my stacks work in case anyone should ever need to
- > use them with the player.
- > 2) I am working on a stack for work which would be perfect for this,
- > if the runtime version takes us less RAM and/or disk space.
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- I met this new player only yesterday. Apparently Hypercard will not be
- shipped with the Macs anymore - not enough revenue coming in for Claris's
- efforts.
- As I understand it, the player will play any stack created in HyperCard.
- To get HyperCard in future, the user will need to purchase from Claris.
- I did not note the memory requirements of the player.
-
- I wonder if this development will have an adverse effect on the use
- of HyperCard, if it now has to be purchased separately?
-