Tiger breaks hyperCard?

[Eric Chatonet]

Hi Tim,

I run a G4 bi-pro with Tiger 10.4.1.
HyperCard 2.4.1 US with many additional utilities including 120  
externals in use, a 3.4 MB library, color tools, a multi-purposes  
plugin I wrote many years ago (1.5 MB) and much more... A real HC  
factory which needs an allocation of 15 MB of RAM (nothing at the  
moment but quite impressive some years ago :-)
All that works perfectly with Tiger as it worked with Jaguar and  
Panther in the Classic environment :-)
I think the reported issues are personal ones ;-)
Pay attention to RAM allocation: old system 9 feature, often  
forgotten since Unix came in...

Le 27 juin 05 à 21:40, Timothy Miller a écrit :

> I skimmed the thread on Tiger breaks hyperCard. I wasn't too  
> concerned at the time.
>
> I'm concluding the process of the OS 9 to OS X transition, once and  
> for all. I'm on 10.3.9. I see its virtues. So, now I need another  
> machine capable of running OS X. I'm thinking about Mac Mini, but  
> they ship with Tiger installed.
>
> I will probably need to run hyperCard in classic mode occasionally,  
> at least for the next year or so, until my HC-->Rev stacks are  
> totally solid. I inquired on comp.sys.mac.apps. The main players  
> there are usually reliable. They say hyperCard works fine on Tiger,  
> in their experience. So, maybe only certain hyperCard features  
> don't work? Which ones?
>
> If Tiger breaks hyperCard, it seems like it must break a lot of  
> other Classic applications also, true?
>
> If Tiger-Breaks-HyperCard (and maybe a lot of other Classic  
> applications, too) is a serious problem, would it be reasonable to  
> replace Tiger with OS 10.3.9 on a new Mac Mini? My instincts say,  
> "Don't try it."
>
> Since I'm on the topic, I don't mind that the Mac Mini is "only" a  
> G4. The slow system bus speed concerns me, though -- 167 mhz. OTOH,  
> I am only an occasional user of CPU-intensive applications. Is the  
> slow system bus a serious bottleneck? I know this is a little OT.  
> Sorry. I know this is a Rev group, but many of us are former HC  
> users, some still in transition.

Best Regards from Paris,

Eric Chatonet.
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