Hmmm...

[dunbarx at aol.com]

Bill Atkinson himself said that the core of HC had to be constrained to (paraphrased) "fit within the 1 MByte memory limit", basically, of a Mac Plus.


Craig



-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Sneidar <bobsneidar at iotecdigital.com>
To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>
Sent: Fri, Oct 31, 2014 6:35 pm
Subject: Re: Hmmm...


Agreed, but Supercard suffered from early instability and general interface 
kludginess. I was a Supercard guy for a long time, but got sidetracked with 
other things. Still, I was stifled by the same issue I had with Hypercard: I 
wanted to create databases of many thousands of records, and there was no good 
way to do that without XCMD’s that turned out to be too unreliable for 
commercial use. 

To be perfectly frank, until I came across Runtime Revolution, developing with 
X-Card seemed to me to be too sketchy for me to stake my reputation on. I 
created cool little utility apps that didn’t need many thousands of cards, but 
nothing I would feel comfortable providing to the people I worked for. 

Now I feel very confident that I can create fairly polished and functioning 
database apps (given my total inability to design good user interfaces) using 
the tools at hand. I have come to think of Livecode as what Hypercard should 
have been all along (had they the memory to even run it back then, which they 
decidedly did not!) 

Bob S


> On Oct 31, 2014, at 14:51 , Dr. Hawkins <dochawk at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 1:22 PM, Richmond <richmondmathewson at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> Did anyone recreate HyperCard and then improve it once HyperCard was
>> killed off?
>> 
>> And the answer is 'Yes' several times over: many being short-lived things
>> (SERF ???), and
>> many restricted to only 1 or 2 platforms (ToolBook, SuperCard),
>> 
> 
> SuperCard was actually contemporaneous with HyperCard.
> 
> SuperCard 1.5 had multiple windows long before HyperCard 2.0.
> 
> And if they had come out with the PC version 2 years earlier, or even if I
> had known it was coming, **I* *would be dominant player in bankruptcy
> software today . . .
> 
> 
> -- 
> Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq.
> (702) 508-8462
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