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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.
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["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]