Richard MacLemale wrote:
>
> Greetings again, list.
>
> Maybe I'm just feeling "chatty", or maybe it's because the list has been
> quieter than usual. But anyway, I felt compelled to discuss this...
>
> A PLEA FOR OS X...
> According to Apple, Mac OS X is coming out late summer/early fall. Since it
> will be able to run older (meaning OS 8 compatible) Macintosh programs, I'm
> hoping my current MetaCard-created applications will run. But Scott Raney
> had suggested at one point that MetaCard might (or was it will?) make a
> version of MetaCard for OS X. Since MetaCard is looking for new features
> for future versions, I thought I'd toss this into the list...
>
> It's too soon to ask for MetaCard for OS X, but not too soon to discuss it.
> I can see some HUGE advantages for MetaCard to create an OS X version.
> There would definitely be more developers willing to jump on the MetaCard
> bandwagon. The demand for OS X applications (and I mean those that are
> Carbon compliant) will be huge, and being able to create them in MetaCard
> will be huge also. People wonder if OS X will take off. It will, because
> it will eventually come on every new Mac. Seen Apple's stock lately?
> People are buying tons of iMacs, iBooks, G4's, etc. There has been some
> debate on the new GUI ("Aqua"), but the point is moot. The Mac OS will
> essentially be UNIX with a pretty Macintosh GUI on top of it. Many would
> argue the best of both worlds. Many UNIX users I know would argue that
> "pretty" is using two shades of gray instead of one. Just kidding! See, us
> non-UNIX users can dish out the sarcasm also!
At this time, the best to do is to wait and see. Even if OS X seems
alive and will probably be many more suitable than the Next-Rhapsody, i
played with in the past, is, i never forgot, too, what append with
HyperCard 3.0... :-(
> Anyway, in a totally perfect world, we'd have a beta version of MetaCard for
> OS X BEFORE OS X came out. Then we'd be able to come out with OS X
> applications shortly after OS X was released, which would give us MetaCard
> developers a jump on everyone else. But I'll settle for an OS X version any
> old time!
Ok, but you don't have to suggest on any public list that you are an OS
X betatester, is n'it ?...
> I know the Mac community. Eventually, and it won't take long, there will be
> a snobbery about "non-carbon compliant" Mac programs. "That piece of
> non-carbon compliant junk keeps crashing!" or "It'd run faster if it wasn't
> non-carbon compliant." And people will think that ANY carbon-compliant
> application is the coolest thing since Wonder Bread. At least for a while.
> And during that while, I can make some money! And that's always a good
> thing.
>
> We can take little jabs at each other's OS choice all in good fun. But
> Windows MetaCard developers will have to watch out when OS X comes out,
> because the UNIX and OS X people will be ganging up on them. :) I do fear,
> though, that Mac users will become huge-headed when OS X comes. They'll
> feel like they've gotten their lead back over Windows. And they might be
> right! Or is that just the Mac user in me?
You are probably right and it's what i hope too, even if at this time,
Linux runs perfectly each app i need, i build in using Metacard and, at
this time (again), my G3's are just waiting for better days and the
clients are Ok with Linux...
> :)
> Richard MacLemale
>
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Best Regards, Pierre Sahores
CRDP de l'academie de Creteil
WEB, DB, ASP, VPN, B2B design
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