I waited a year for the DOS version. It never came. Then I went to Director. Bill
William Prothero http://es.earthednet.org > On Oct 4, 2016, at 2:44 PM, Dr. Hawkins <doch...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 2:18 PM, Bob Sneidar <bobsnei...@iotecdigital.com> > wrote: > >> Agreed. I probably paid for the original Supercard and about 4 upgrades >> over the years and never produced anything with it, but the ability to >> continue working in a hypercard-like environment and wanting it to not go >> the way of Hypercard was enough to keep me on the gravy train. >> > > If I'd kept using it another year, I'd probably be wealthy now--I had no > clue that the DOS version was actually going to ship in another year, and > dropped my project. > > *sigh* > > I last used 1.5 . . . but a couple of years ago, I *was* able to import the > stacks to the trial version of the then-current version (4.5?). I had to > drag out an old MacClassic, restore from a stack of backup disks (an > adventure in itself, finding a copy of the backup program), write to > floppy, convince a FreeBSD machine to read that, and then either burn a cd > or use a usb to get it onto a modern mac . . . > > > -- > 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
