Re: HC 25 years old today

2012-08-15 Thread stephen barncard
m4a, low complexity AAC should work everywhere and sound better than mp3s On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 11:05 AM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > Thanks for that. I really want to make a few of these work on my iPhone. > > Bob > > > On Aug 15, 2012, at 10:53 AM, stephen barncard wrote: > > > The wonderful dog-co

Re: HC 25 years old today

2012-08-15 Thread Bob Sneidar
Thanks for that. I really want to make a few of these work on my iPhone. Bob On Aug 15, 2012, at 10:53 AM, stephen barncard wrote: > The wonderful dog-cow sound is available online as an aiff, along with the > other 8-bit favorites like hip, chi-toy and clink-clank: > > http://www.macupdate.c

Re: HC 25 years old today

2012-08-15 Thread stephen barncard
The wonderful dog-cow sound is available online as an aiff, along with the other 8-bit favorites like hip, chi-toy and clink-clank: http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/19079/mac-os-classic-sound-pack/ all going into my sounds folder. On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 7:56 PM, Jerry Jensen wrote: > On Aug

Re: HC 25 years old today

2012-08-15 Thread Bob Sneidar
I love that things like this are still "out there" (in any sense you like) on the Internet. Bob On Aug 15, 2012, at 8:36 AM, Colin Holgate wrote: > One of my pals while I was at Apple (he got me started on juggling) wrote a > tech note about the dogcow: > > http://www.macfreek.nl/humour/tn3

Re: HC 25 years old today

2012-08-15 Thread Bob Sneidar
At lease the Macalope is still with us. On Aug 14, 2012, at 7:48 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 8/14/12 6:44 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: >> For the folks that gotta have more cowbell, er, Hypercard: >> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTtQ0l0ukvQ > > Remember the dogcow? Miss that critter. > > --

Re: HC 25 years old today

2012-08-15 Thread Bob Sneidar
You can't have too much cowbell! On Aug 14, 2012, at 4:44 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: > For the folks that gotta have more cowbell, er, Hypercard: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTtQ0l0ukvQ > > Regards, > > Scott Rossi > Creative Director > Tactile Media, UX Design > > > > _

Re: HC 25 years old today

2012-08-15 Thread Colin Holgate
One of my pals while I was at Apple (he got me started on juggling) wrote a tech note about the dogcow: http://www.macfreek.nl/humour/tn31.html ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscrib

Re: HC 25 years old today

2012-08-15 Thread kee nethery
His name is Clarus. I have a button on my jean jacket with his picture that … can be rotated to the appropriate orientation. Kee On Aug 14, 2012, at 7:48 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 8/14/12 6:44 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: >> For the folks that gotta have more cowbell, er, Hypercard: >> >> http:

Re: HC 25 years old today

2012-08-14 Thread Jerry Jensen
On Aug 14, 2012, at 7:48 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 8/14/12 6:44 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: >> For the folks that gotta have more cowbell, er, Hypercard: >> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTtQ0l0ukvQ > > Remember the dogcow? Miss that critter. Moof! ___

Re: HC 25 years old today

2012-08-14 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 8/14/12 6:44 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: For the folks that gotta have more cowbell, er, Hypercard: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTtQ0l0ukvQ Remember the dogcow? Miss that critter. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www

Re: HC 25 years old today

2012-08-14 Thread Scott Rossi
Should have written "more early Mac reminiscing"... Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX Design Recently, I wrote: > For the folks that gotta have more cowbell, er, Hypercard: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTtQ0l0ukvQ > > Regards, > > Scott Rossi > Creative Directo

Re: HC 25 years old today

2012-08-14 Thread Scott Rossi
For the folks that gotta have more cowbell, er, Hypercard: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTtQ0l0ukvQ Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX Design ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url t

Re: HC 25 years old today

2012-08-13 Thread Colin Holgate
I can't remember the exact values, this was 20 years ago I was doing that! You would type "debug hintbits" in the message box, with some values, then do a compact stack. Apparently it's described in the Dan Winkler/Scott Kamins HyperCard book. The text finding worked like this: unmark all card

Re: HC 25 years old today

2012-08-13 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 8/12/12 9:52 PM, Alejandro Tejada wrote: http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/HyperCard/message/2159 (Why the HyperCard group is stored among the Finance groups in yahoo???) Good question. Paul (the list moderator) tried to get it changed for a long time but Yahoo never responded. -- Ja

Re: HC 25 years old today

2012-08-13 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 8/13/12 12:42 AM, Mark Wieder wrote: Jacque- Sunday, August 12, 2012, 10:26:02 AM, you wrote: I admit I choked up a bit when I read the article. I wouldn't be here if it hadn't been for HyperCard. I seem to be playing straight man for you quite a bit lately, but... OK - where would you be

Re: HC 25 years old today

2012-08-13 Thread Richard Gaskin
Colin Holgate wrote: > On Aug 13, 2012, at 8:41 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > >> >I suspect that's a lightweight form of bitmap index, but it'll be >> interesting to see how it's done. > > When we were creating the Expanded Books series we had some > challenges in fitting the longer books onto a fl

Re: HC 25 years old today

2012-08-13 Thread Colin Holgate
When we were creating the Expanded Books series we had some challenges in fitting the longer books onto a floppy disk. We made the files as .SIT, that helped, but still longer books were a tight squeeze. One trick I did was to set the hint bits to zero, that alone would save enough space that a

Re: HC 25 years old today

2012-08-13 Thread Richard Gaskin
Mark Wieder wrote: One of the interesting things Bill Atkinson said this evening is that the source code for HyperCard has been donated to the Computer Museum. You can download the code for MacPaint and MacDraw which were also donated, but the HC source code isn't yet downloadable. Bill was optim

Re: HC 25 years old today

2012-08-13 Thread René Micout
Le 12 août 2012 à 19:26, J. Landman Gay a écrit : > On 8/12/12 11:03 AM, dunb...@aol.com wrote: >> >> >> Someone on the HC list noted this. >> >> >> Hypercard's 25th anniversary. > > This link was attached: > http://www.tuaw.com/tag/hypercard > > There are some nice links back to RunRev. >

Re: HC 25 years old today

2012-08-12 Thread Mark Wieder
One of the interesting things Bill Atkinson said this evening is that the source code for HyperCard has been donated to the Computer Museum. You can download the code for MacPaint and MacDraw which were also donated, but the HC source code isn't yet downloadable. Bill was optimistically hoping that

Re: HC 25 years old today

2012-08-12 Thread Mark Wieder
Jacque- Sunday, August 12, 2012, 10:26:02 AM, you wrote: > I admit I choked up a bit when I read the article. I wouldn't be here if > it hadn't been for HyperCard. I seem to be playing straight man for you quite a bit lately, but... OK - where would you be? ...and there should be some kind of p

Re: HC 25 years old today

2012-08-12 Thread Alejandro Tejada
J. Landman Gay wrote > > [snip] > I wouldn't be here if it hadn't been for HyperCard. > Me too! :-D Back then, I tried to build a "Spanish Translation Assistant" http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/HyperCard/message/2159 (Why the HyperCard group is stored among the Finance groups in yahoo???

Re: HC 25 years old today

2012-08-12 Thread Richmond Mathewson
stephen barncard wrote: Kevin liked it so much he bought the company. (altered quote may only has relevance to those in the US who were watching tv in the 70s and 80s) We were laughing ourselves at Victor Kiam in Britain as well. And, while I am here I would just like to say that Kevin mak

Re: HC 25 years old today

2012-08-12 Thread stephen barncard
Kevin liked it so much he bought the company. (altered quote may only has relevance to those in the US who were watching tv in the 70s and 80s) On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 11:10 AM, Richmond Mathewson < richmondmathew...@gmail.com> wrote: > Richard Gaskin wrote: > >> FWIW, this year is the 20th anni

Re: HC 25 years old today

2012-08-12 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Richard Gaskin wrote: FWIW, this year is the 20th anniversary of LiveCode - while I don't have the specific release date, I believe MetaCard was first released in 1992. At the risk of seeming picky; surely it is the twentieth anniversary of Metacard? Happy birthday, LiveCode. -- Richard

Re: HC 25 years old today

2012-08-12 Thread Richard Gaskin
FWIW, this year is the 20th anniversary of LiveCode - while I don't have the specific release date, I believe MetaCard was first released in 1992. Happy birthday, LiveCode. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode devel

Re: HC 25 years old today

2012-08-12 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 8/12/12 11:03 AM, dunb...@aol.com wrote: Someone on the HC list noted this. Hypercard's 25th anniversary. This link was attached: http://www.tuaw.com/tag/hypercard There are some nice links back to RunRev. I admit I choked up a bit when I read the article. I wouldn't be here if it had

Re: HC 25 years old today

2012-08-12 Thread Richmond Mathewson
dunb...@aol.com wrote: Someone on the HC list noted this. Hypercard's 25th anniversary. Well worth celebrating: When Nikita Khrushchev died he went to Hell, and the first things he saw was Hitler up to his neck in shit, and Stalin up to his waist in the stuff. So he asked the Devil why

HC 25 years old today

2012-08-12 Thread dunbarx
Someone on the HC list noted this. Hypercard's 25th anniversary. Craig ___ 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/m