Converting Hypercard Stack -- No Scripts?

[J. Landman Gay]

Sivakatirswami wrote:

> I tried opening again in 2.8.1, compact stack, save as again, open in 
> 3.0... still no go...

The compacting pretty much has to be done in HyperCard, and it's a 
fairly important step. Some uncompacted stacks won't open at all in any 
version of Rev, or may open incorrectly (missing cards and objects.) It 
has to do with HyperCard's file format and how much junk gets stored in 
uncompacted stacks. Compacting twice in a row in HC before moving the 
stack to Rev will clean out almost all the junk and allow Rev to see the 
file structure correctly. If you no longer have access to HC then what 
you're doing is probably the only way.

> 
> I would call this a bug and the best way to submit it will be with my 
> original HC stack + the converted version... it's not an emergency so I 
> think I will let the Rev team deal with it.

It might be a bug. But it also might be that the uncompacted HC stack 
was just too far gone to decipher correctly.

I was recently turned on to Mini VMac. It's a marvel; it allows you to 
run HC on an Intel machine (and I believe there is one for running HC in 
Windows too.) It's open source. It does require a very old Mac ROM and 
it only emulates a Mac Plus. But that's enough to run HC 2.x and do the 
compaction.
<http://minivmac.sourceforge.net/>

Now that I just looked up the link, I see they have added color 
capabilities to it just last week. Maybe it will emulate a newer Mac now.

This is another good link, explaining how to install a Mac-on-a-stick. 
It has all the download links, including one for ROMs:
<http://www.nothickmanuals.info/doku.php/minivmac>

I have a copy of Mac OS 7.somthing running HC 2.4.1 on a USB stick, it's 
pretty neat. Remember waiting ten minutes for the Plus to boot up? Mini 
vMac boots the whole OS in a few milliseconds. Kind of destroys the 
nostalgia.

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