Tiger breaks hyperCard?

[Timothy Miller]

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.

Hey! I didn't complain about Rev this time!

Cheers,


Tim Miller