Bill Atkinson himself said that the core of HC had to be constrained to (paraphrased) "fit within the 1 MByte memory limit", basically, of a Mac Plus.
Craig -----Original Message----- From: Bob Sneidar <bobsnei...@iotecdigital.com> To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> Sent: Fri, Oct 31, 2014 6:35 pm Subject: Re: Hmmm... Agreed, but Supercard suffered from early instability and general interface kludginess. I was a Supercard guy for a long time, but got sidetracked with other things. Still, I was stifled by the same issue I had with Hypercard: I wanted to create databases of many thousands of records, and there was no good way to do that without XCMD’s that turned out to be too unreliable for commercial use. To be perfectly frank, until I came across Runtime Revolution, developing with X-Card seemed to me to be too sketchy for me to stake my reputation on. I created cool little utility apps that didn’t need many thousands of cards, but nothing I would feel comfortable providing to the people I worked for. Now I feel very confident that I can create fairly polished and functioning database apps (given my total inability to design good user interfaces) using the tools at hand. I have come to think of Livecode as what Hypercard should have been all along (had they the memory to even run it back then, which they decidedly did not!) Bob S > On Oct 31, 2014, at 14:51 , Dr. Hawkins <doch...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 1:22 PM, Richmond <richmondmathew...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Did anyone recreate HyperCard and then improve it once HyperCard was >> killed off? >> >> And the answer is 'Yes' several times over: many being short-lived things >> (SERF ???), and >> many restricted to only 1 or 2 platforms (ToolBook, SuperCard), >> > > SuperCard was actually contemporaneous with HyperCard. > > SuperCard 1.5 had multiple windows long before HyperCard 2.0. > > And if they had come out with the PC version 2 years earlier, or even if I > had known it was coming, **I* *would be dominant player in bankruptcy > software today . . . > > > -- > Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. > (702) 508-8462 > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
