Tiger breaks hyperCard?

[Dan Shafer]

I can report that HC seems to work just fine in Tiger. I don't use it  
often and I haven't done any new development in it, but the old HC  
stacks I have lying around before I port them to Rev all seem to run  
along fat, dumb, and happy.

Dan

On Jun 27, 2005, at 1:16 PM, Eric Chatonet wrote:

> 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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