Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!uwvax!oddjob!ncar!gatech!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!ll-xn!adelie!necntc!linus!sdl From: sdl@linus.UUCP (Steven D. Litvintchouk) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: How 'Bout HyperCard! Message-ID: <31411@linus.UUCP> Date: 9 May 88 22:15:08 GMT References: <15372@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> Organization: The MITRE Corp., Bedford, MA Lines: 56 In-reply-to: tws@beach.cis.ufl.edu's message of 5 May 88 03:59:06 GMT In article <15372@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> tws@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Thomas Sarver) writes: > ***GET ON KNEES*** > > I WANT HYPERCARD FOR THE AMIGA! [lots of emotional stuff deleted] 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? And the text on a card is extremely primitive. Basically, Hypercard's card design capability is roughly equivalent to MacPaint. I would like to see a hypermedia product for the Amiga that *really* takes advantage of it's capabilities. I envision something like a cross between MicroFiche Filer and Deluxe Video (hint, hint). Namely, using the microfiche metaphor, select a microfiche card, and activate animation, video, music, or any combination, probably on a separate screen. (Or text, of course.) If each microfiche "card" (what do you call them?) could accept a wide variety of IFF forms, that would truly be neat. > HyperCard was meant for multi-tasking. Really? > Imagine reading uucp using OnLine! as > a terminal to a site. You find something interesting. You copy it to the > clipboard. You click HyperCard to front, and put it on a card. Make some > connections with other cards, get back to OnLine! What's important is support for the clipboard device so you can paste among products. I wish more software vendors supported this for the Amiga. Better idea: Activate animations or music on one MicroFiche card, and while it's running, continue to browse the microfiche for other cards! Now that would really show off Amiga multitasking! Steven Litvintchouk MITRE Corporation Burlington Road Bedford, MA 01730 Fone: (617)271-7753 ARPA: sdl@mitre-bedford.arpa UUCP: ...{cbosgd,decvax,genrad,ll-xn,mit-eddie,philabs,utzoo}!linus!sdl "Those who will be able to conquer software will be able to conquer the world." -- Tadahiro Sekimoto, president, NEC Corp.