METACARD ACQUIRED BY RUN REV!!!

Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com
Fri Jul 11 14:11:01 EDT 2003


Shari wrote:

>>> There's a decent chance that MetaCard 2.5 will run on the Mac OS for
>>> another 5 years without breaking.
>> 
>> Just as HyperCard runs smoothly under Classic on my iceBook ;-))
> 
> Ah but OSX surely breaks Hypercard, unless you are running in Classic
> mode.  And the new boxes don't even support Classic mode from what
> I've read.  Who can say that a future OS won't break MC 2.5?

If nothing else, MC 2.5 doesn't support nifty things like drawers, slated
for a future release.

New Macs run Classic, they just won't boot into Classic natively.  This
destroys only a subset of Classic applications. ;)

-- 
 Richard Gaskin 
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