On Thu, 29 Mar 2001 Simon Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Anyone read this? It's a hoot.
>
> http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0103/26.hypercard.shtml
It's also probably just plain inaccurate: if our own porting
experience is any guide, it'd be a *lot* more work to port HyperCard
to Carbon than what they're estimating. Not even considering that the
temptation to make improvements to the core technology in the process
would be practically irresistable, yielding to which would blow holes
in the schedule that you could drive a bus through.
And speaking of OS X ports, we should start testing the next release
of MetaCard in a few days, including the new Carbon engine. Though
Codewarrior is still very broken on OS X (using the debugger is an
absolute nightmare), the released version of the OS itself is in
not-too-bad of shape and though there are still some warts and missing
features, we should be able to release on the current libraries. Just
keep in mind that some MetaCard features (e.g., "hide menubar") won't
be available until Apple gets around to finishing the new APIs for
these things.
Regards,
Scott
PS: in case anyone missed us, or had mail bounce or generate warnings,
our main ISP shut down on Wednesday, graciously giving us about 20
hours notice to transfer everything over to our backup ISPs. We
didn't lose anything as far as we know, but mail was likely delayed
for some people and it's going to take a few days to get things
working smoothly again and to get caught up. If you think there's any
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about your ISP having financial trouble, be like a rat and jump the
sinking ship at your earliest convenience. We saw the warning signs
but naively trusted the ISP when they said that everything was under
control and that they had a transition plan in place. Turns out they
lied.
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