Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!apple!apple.com!athos From: athos@apple.com (Rick Eames) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard Subject: Re: HyperCard vs. SuperCard vs. PLUS Message-ID: <4503@internal.Apple.COM> Date: 2 Oct 89 15:27:13 GMT References: <832taylorj@yvax.byu.edu> Sender: usenet@Apple.COM Lines: 18 In article <832taylorj@yvax.byu.edu> taylorj@yvax.byu.edu writes: > PLUS is simply HyperCard with bells and whistles (and bugs) and some sorely > needed features such as larger windows, "library stacks" to hold shared > resources, multiple text fonts/styles/sizes in fields, color, etc. It's > generally quite compatible with HyperCard stacks. It seems to be basically > unusable (i.e. crashes frequently) on a Mac with less than 2 Meg of RAM. The > manual is abysmal. The english is actually so bad it's funny! It's full of > useless trivia and devoid of useful details. I'm afraid you're a little off on this one. Try using PLUS 1.11 which fixes most of the bugs you speak of. SuperCard doesn't do much better with 1 meg. I tried. It was far too slow. Rick