Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!apple!bionet!agate!ucbvax!hplabs!hpda!hpcuhb!hpsmtc1!dlw From: dlw@hpsmtc1.HP.COM (David L. Williams) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard Subject: Look out Hypercard, its Supercard! Message-ID: <16310014@hpsmtc1.HP.COM> Date: 5 Dec 88 22:38:49 GMT Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino Lines: 35 Interesting to find this out after Dan Allen's posting about no real new features to Hypercard(God only knows when HC 2.0 will show). It will be really interesting to see if this comes to pass. How long would it take the 4 Apple Hypercard programmers to add in support for multiple windows and the like? Perhaps Apple should sub-contract out to Silicon Beach! ;) From the December 5 88 Infoworld: Apple Computer's Hypercard will no longer be the only player in its unique product category when Silicon Beach Software announces in January a Hypercard work-alike, Supercard. The program offers several important functions not currently available in Hypercard. Among the key improvements are its support for color and use of the full screen, sources said. The program will be available in the second quarter of next year. No pricing was available. With Supercard, users can import existing Hypercard stacks or create standalone applications using Supercard's Hypertalk-compatible scripting language, Supertalk, the sources said. The program also supports multiple resizable windows and has extensive drawing fucntions. Silicon Beach officials declined to comment. "A program that's like Hypercard but has a lot of the capabilities missing in Hypercard would be a very viable product" said Ashok Jain, editor of Macintosh Market Report, of Irvine, California. Apple multimedia evangelist Jim Armstrong compared the introduction of Hypercard-compatibles to Silicon Beach's successful introduction of Superpaint at a time Apple was bundling MacPaint with every Macintosh. He added that Bill Atkinson's priority is to ensure Hypercard is optimized for the entire Mac line, an element that might help distinguish it from Hypercard workalikes. Sources said at least tow other companies will introduce Hypercard-like programs next year.