Re: MetaCard om mac windows emulation

1999-09-17 Thread John Johnston
More thanks to: Mark Talluto, James Parker,Karl Becker, what a nice list! James alos wrote: >I might be in left field with this one but MC runs on Macs, too. Don't >understand why you'd feel the need to run it under PC emulation. Cause if things go a I fear, I will be designing for PCs on a mac

Re: MetaCard om mac windows emulation

1999-09-15 Thread James Parker
>However, one question for anyone on the group: how do you set a custom >icon for a Windows program? That's all I have left to do to make my >fishing game cross-platform... having it Mac only for 2 years has made >Mac people happy, but I think it's time to let the other 90% of the world >p

Re: MetaCard om mac windows emulation

1999-09-15 Thread Karl Becker
>> My question; I do not have a PC at home, nor room for one, does MetaCard >> run on windows emulators on a mac? If so does anyone have an opinion on >> which is best? > >I chose SoftWindows98 because emulation is the primary focus of Insignia. I have Virtual PC 2.1 with Windows 95 here (go

Re: MetaCard om mac windows emulation

1999-09-15 Thread James Parker
I might be in left field with this one but MC runs on Macs, too. Don't understand why you'd feel the need to run it under PC emulation. As far as which emulator is best, I'm sure you'll find opinions vary. I've only used VirtualPC but have never had any problems with it. Hope this helps ya!

Re: MetaCard om mac windows emulation

1999-09-15 Thread Mark Talluto
> Hello > > I have been lurking a few weeks. > My city, Glasgow in Scotland is getting PCs for schools, when they used > to have Macs. I am a teacher and have been using HyperCard for a few > years and SuperCard a bit too, MetaCard seems an obvious direction to go. > I downloaded the starter kit

Re: MetaCard om mac windows emulation

1999-09-15 Thread John Johnston
hello "Warren 'The Howdy Man' Ockrassa", Jacqueline Landman Gay, Claude Lemmel,Richard Gaskin (and Rich Herz and Mike Yates who replied off list) thank you for all the information and tips, I guess it will be virtual PC. I am enjoying "PCs for non-dummies" too Warren. John Johnston

Re: MetaCard om mac windows emulation

1999-09-14 Thread Richard Gaskin
> My question; I do not have a PC at home, nor room for one, does MetaCard > run on windows emulators on a mac? If so does anyone have an opinion on > which is best? I chose SoftWindows98 because emulation is the primary focus of Insignia. For most things, it seems to work well and I very mu

Re: MetaCard om mac windows emulation

1999-09-14 Thread Jacqueline Landman Gay
John Johnston wrote: > My question; I do not have a PC at home, nor room for one, does MetaCard > run on windows emulators on a mac? If so does anyone have an opinion on > which is best? I am running Virtual PC which I like a lot (the emulator, not Windows :)) and I do all my cross-platform M

Re: MetaCard om mac windows emulation

1999-09-14 Thread Warren 'The Howdy Man' Ockrassa
John Johnston wrote: > My question; I do not have a PC at home, nor room for one, does MetaCard > run on windows emulators on a mac? Probably. ;) Reliably? Harder to tell. > If so does anyone have an opinion on which is best? There are two that I know of which are software-based and run in ses

MetaCard om mac windows emulation

1999-09-14 Thread John Johnston
Hello I have been lurking a few weeks. My city, Glasgow in Scotland is getting PCs for schools, when they used to have Macs. I am a teacher and have been using HyperCard for a few years and SuperCard a bit too, MetaCard seems an obvious direction to go. I downloaded the starter kit and got the