Re: Music in Hypercard?

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bguenter@rummelplatz.uni-mannheim.de (Boris Guenter) wrote:

>Hi! Sometimes I admire the newer Hypercard stacks which have very good
>musical intro sequences in them, one even had an Amiga Mod included.
>My Question is: Where can I find the required external commands 
>to play Soundsmith songs and Midi Synths and where can I find the
>documentation how I can include and use them?  
>Any help will be appreciated.

I'll let the HyperCard gurus handle this one (not sure where
to find these XCMDs).

>What does using an XCMD mean for hypermoving the stacks to that other
>computer? Do the stacks just lose their external calls or won't they
>be able to be hypermoved at all??

They can be Hypermoved, but the XCMDs will be lost.  I think
this will cause the stack to crash on the target computer (the
Mac if from IIGS to Mac or the IIGS if from Mac to IIGS)
unless you have an equivalent XCMD on the target computer.

For example if you had a SoundSmith or MIDI Synth or MOD
song XCMD (not sure where to find these) and built a IIGS
HyperCard stack with them, then Hypermoved the stack to
Macintosh, Mac HyperCard would probably ask you (if what
I think is correct) "so and so XCMD missing."  I'm pretty
sure they have the equivalent of a MIDI Synth XCMD, but
I'm not sure what you would do about the other two music
formats.  Good luck and please upload any stacks you build.
Thanks!