Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!uwvax!oddjob!ncar!ames!mike From: mike@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Mike Smithwick) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: How 'Bout HyperCard! Message-ID: <8566@ames.arc.nasa.gov> Date: 10 May 88 20:10:33 GMT References: <15372@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> <31411@linus.UUCP> Reply-To: mike@ames.arc.nasa.gov.UUCP (Mike Smithwick) Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. Lines: 30 ["excuse me madam, but I must take my toad for a walk. . ."] In article <31411@linus.UUCP> sdl@linus.UUCP (Steven D. Litvintchouk) writes: > >I would like to see a variety of hypermedia and hypertext software >products for the Amiga. If *any* machine was a natural for hypermedia >and hypertext, it's the Amiga. > >But HyperCard is not hypertext, and it sure isn't hypermedia. Can you >activate an *animation* on a card? ^^^^^^^^^ As a matter of fact, yes you can. I've seen a hypercard animation of a multiple star system. You selected the size, number and orbits of some stars, and it calculated and displayed, in real-time, their motion. My problem with hypercard, is what happens when Hypercard-The Next Generation comes out. They've run out of hyper prefixes for things like this, will it be Super-Hypercard? HyperHyperCard? Hypercard+? Hypercard!! ?, Or will they just recycle the emotional level on names, and start back at "Card". . . Oh, I know, how 'bout "WarpCard"? *** HyperMike *** -- *** mike (Cyberpunk in training) smithwick *** "Use an Atari, go to jail!" [disclaimer : nope, I don't work for NASA, I take full blame for my ideas]