RE: Barely competition

2011-02-08 Thread Lynn Fredricks
> The SuperCard debacle is what got me onto runrev in the first place. I thought it was the red room dream of the dancing haggis :-? Best regards, Lynn Fredricks President Paradigma Software http://www.paradigmasoft.com Valentina SQL Server: The Ultra-fast, Royalty Free Database Server _

Re: Barely competition

2011-02-08 Thread Mark Wieder
Lynn- The SuperCard debacle is what got me onto runrev in the first place. -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscriptio

Re: Barely competition

2011-02-08 Thread Luis
No, this one did: http://tilestack.com/ :( Cheers, Luis. On 08/02/11 18:39, Bob Sneidar wrote: Wow really? I thought it had died. I used to upgrade all the time without actually having produced anything in it. LOL! Bob On Feb 8, 2011, at 8:00 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Au contraire - Su

Re: Barely competition

2011-02-08 Thread Bob Sneidar
Wow really? I thought it had died. I used to upgrade all the time without actually having produced anything in it. LOL! Bob On Feb 8, 2011, at 8:00 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > Au contraire - SuperCard is alive and well. > > Here's an overview of new features in v4.7: >

RE: Barely competition

2011-02-08 Thread Lynn Fredricks
> considering the other 90% it never ceases to amaze me that > Supercard hasn't attempted to go cross-platform, while Livecode has. There were several attempts made. There were some abortive attempts first at remaking it with Quicktime/Quicktime Interactive, then there was Roadster, which was the

RE: Barely competition

2011-02-08 Thread John Dixon
> Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2011 20:06:12 +0200 > From: richmondmathew...@gmail.com > considering the other 90% it never ceases to amaze me that Supercard > hasn't attempted > to go cross-platform, while Livecode has. > > Had they done that, or were they to do that now, RunRev would have to > look to

Re: Barely competition

2011-02-08 Thread Richmond
On 02/08/2011 06:00 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Bob Sneidar wrote: > I wonder how far back on the Time Machine scale you would have to > put the Supercard Era? Or a more relevant question might be, can > you accurately carbon date a Supercard CD (or floppy disk??), or > have there been any excavat

Re: Barely competition

2011-02-08 Thread Richard Gaskin
Bob Sneidar wrote: > I wonder how far back on the Time Machine scale you would have to > put the Supercard Era? Or a more relevant question might be, can > you accurately carbon date a Supercard CD (or floppy disk??), or > have there been any excavations of them to work with? Au contraire - Supe

Re: Barely competition

2011-02-07 Thread Mark Schonewille
Colin, Sure, that seems a valid reason to me, probably you'd also put "discount" in the subject line when you do this. In most other cases, I think that developers like to see links to their own pages instead of MacUpdate. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Softwa

Re: Barely competition

2011-02-07 Thread Bob Sneidar
I wonder how far back on the Time Machine scale you would have to put the Supercard Era? Or a more relevant question might be, can you accurately carbon date a Supercard CD (or floppy disk??), or have there been any excavations of them to work with? Many modern developers deny the existence of

Re: Barely competition

2011-02-07 Thread Richmond
On 02/07/2011 11:05 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: Supercard? A "few" years?? Bob all things are relative, and as today is my 49th birthday I think I can talk about Supercard with the word "few" without ot looking too odd . . . :) ___ use-livecode mailing

Re: Barely competition

2011-02-07 Thread Bob Sneidar
Supercard? A "few" years?? Bob On Feb 7, 2011, at 12:55 PM, Richmond wrote: > Why do I remember mentioning something similar re Supercard a few years back? ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscri

Re: Barely competition

2011-02-07 Thread Colin Holgate
On Feb 7, 2011, at 3:33 PM, Mark Schonewille wrote: > > >On a slightly different topic, why do people link to MacUpdate that often? Can't say for other people, but I sometimes do that because MacUpdate have the product on discount on the day that I might have mentioned it. I could take the t

Re: Barely competition

2011-02-07 Thread Richmond
On 02/07/2011 10:33 PM, Mark Schonewille wrote: Hi, On a slightly different topic, why do people link to MacUpdate that often? Why not the developer's site? I notice it, not only in this thread, but also other threads and other mailing lists and forums. Why not just click through to the dev's

Re: Barely competition

2011-02-07 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi, On a slightly different topic, why do people link to MacUpdate that often? Why not the developer's site? I notice it, not only in this thread, but also other threads and other mailing lists and forums. Why not just click through to the dev's site and post that link? http://www.bayhoff.com/

Re: Barely competition

2011-02-07 Thread Richmond
Sorry people, a bit late to the party . . . :) As soon as I read this: "Unlike HyperCard, BayCard does not feature a scripting language. In place of a scripting language, BayCard features . . . " I began to feel a bit funny. I don't know how

Re: Barely competition

2011-02-07 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 2/7/11 1:54 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: That was actually what made me google for a hypercard like development environment, and that was how I (re) discovered Revolution. In that case we should encourage all these "competitors". :) -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.co

Re: Barely competition

2011-02-07 Thread Bob Sneidar
Reminds me of Filemaker when it first came out with the ability to write your own "programs". No scripting language just "widgets" so to speak. What actually happens is that the widgets do not always have the particular functionality you need, and you always end up saying, "If only it did this.

Barely competition

2011-02-05 Thread J. Landman Gay
"Baycard" was recently brought to my attention: No scripting language, but it's in the MacApp Store now. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com _