Supercard 4.8 public beta

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I waited a year for the DOS version. It never came. Then 
I went to Director.
Bill

William Prothero
http://es.earthednet.org

> On Oct 4, 2016, at 2:44 PM, Dr. Hawkins <dochawk at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 2:18 PM, Bob Sneidar <bobsneidar at iotecdigital.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> Agreed. I probably paid for the original Supercard and about 4 upgrades
>> over the years and never produced anything with it, but the ability to
>> continue working in a hypercard-like environment and wanting it to not go
>> the way of Hypercard was enough to keep me on the gravy train.
>> 
> 
> If I'd kept using it another year, I'd probably be wealthy now--I had no
> clue that the DOS version was actually going to ship in another year, and
> dropped my project.
> 
> *sigh*
> 
> I last used 1.5 . . . but a couple of years ago, I *was* able to import the
> stacks to the trial version of the then-current version (4.5?).  I had to
> drag out an old MacClassic, restore from a stack of backup disks (an
> adventure in itself, finding a copy of the backup program), write to
> floppy, convince a FreeBSD machine to read that, and then either burn a cd
> or use a usb to get it onto a modern mac . . .
> 
> 
> -- 
> Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq.
> (702) 508-8462
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