legendary Monks liberated by Revolution

[Andre Garzia]

	Hi Brian,

	Just checked on rivertext... it's just amazing... I can't wait to buy 
a copy!!! :-D
	Brazilian foreign exchange rate are very high (uh don't know if this 
english is correct, what I am trying to say is that dollar is 3 to 1) 
so I'll just be able to afford it next month!

	Man... I just feel like putting bryce to work and making some cool 
landscape interactive stacks....


	Cheers on your Monks!
	Andre


On Dec 9, 2003, at 10:37 PM, Brian Thomas wrote:

> "Legendary Š almost defies description" was MacUser magazine's 
> description of the original 1988 HyperCard classic, If Monks had Macs.
>
> "If Monks had Windows -- they'd jump out of them!" was the reaction of 
> the first programmer that I talked to about moving If Monks from Macs 
> to Windows. That was in 1995 -- long before the Revolution.
>
> Over the following decade I tried...
>
> ::  MacroMedia Director
>     (they built the Bob Dylan CD-ROM in director and you couldn't even 
> do a simple find thru Dylan's lyrics!)
>
> :: Quicktime Interactive -- HyperCard as a front end for Quicktime
>    (vaporized)
>
> :: OMO, Oracle Media Objects
>    (you couldn't build a sensuous believable world that linked 
> interconnected stacks  - our library has 24 volumes)
>
> :: the beta of SuperCard for Windows
>    (there was a reason it was never released)
>
> :: mTropolis
>    (cool, but you can't build applications and it's been dead for many 
> years)
>
> And finally, MetaCard and Revolution. And, I have to say, after all 
> I've been through, these programs do Windows well. What a joy it was 
> to move files over to Windows time after time and know they were going 
> to work perfectly. (I can't resist saying if only OS X had been that 
> easy -- but I think it probably is that easy NOW. Windows had been 
> conquered long before I started using MetaCard and now OS X will be 
> that way for new users.)
>
> So, 15 years later, the longest running project in the history of 
> interactive media has arrived thanks to the MetaCard and Revolution 
> teams, the beta testers ...
>
> and the If Monks programmers:
>
> :: RICHARD GASKIN of Fourth World Media Corporation helped tie most of 
> the project together and developed two amazing applications. First, 
> our unique threaded journaling application. (With our threaded journal 
> you can shape the way you look at yourself and your world.) AND 
> second, Sophie, our new e-book reader which you can learn more about 
> and download from FourthWorld.com:
>
> http://www.fourthworld.com/products/sophie/index.html
>
> :: TUVIAH SNYDER moved the journal onto Revolution, developed a new 
> game for us AND was invaluable as a MetaCard and then a Revolution 
> employee helping us make the "MYST" like opening with its seamless 
> integration of HyperCard and Quicktime work, well, seamlessly.
>
> :: JEANNE DeVOTO programmed the way our giant images of the Tower of 
> Babel scroll smoothly and elegantly across the screen AND served as 
> technical coordinator for the conclusion of the project.
>
> :: JACQUELINE LANDMAN GAY, during one of the many delays in the 
> project, programmed many of the features she had developed for her own 
> solitaire games into "Killing Time," the game that Tuviah helped me 
> develop. Killing Time, is a solitaire game for monks. Now everyone can 
> "kill time without injuring eternity" -- everyone can practice 
> safe-solitaire."
>
> :: SARAH REICHELT responded to a question addressed to this list a 
> couple of weeks ago about how I could overcome issues with the long 
> time it takes OS X to learn to associate files with their 
> applications. I hired her to write the AppleScript she suggested and 
> was able to ship on schedule.
>
> ------------
>
> So, what is If Monks...?
>
> A hearty stew of interactive books, games, art, music and more, you 
> can find out more about If Monks had Macs here:
>
> http://www.rivertext.com/
>
> The only other thing I wish to say is that if anyone asks you, "Can 
> Revolution do stylish innovative cross-platform CD-ROMs that include 
> games and sophisticated intellectual tools?"
>
> The answer is yes.
>
> --
> Brian
>
> http://www.rivertext.com/
>
> If Monks had Macs - the director's cut
> is now shipping for Windows as well as Macs
>
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Andre Garzia  2003
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