Re: HyperCard & Model RR

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

<gwright@poseidon.crosslink.net> wrote:

>For those of you who are into model railroads as well as Apple II
>computers, I found a web site that talks about using Hypercard to write
>a program to implement digital control of a layout. The author of that
>page uses Hypercard Mac, but I suspect that an interested party could
>use Hypercard GS. Caveat: I have not examined his listing, so this is a
>guess. The URL is:
>
>http://www.cast.uni-linz.ac.at/st/staff/rm/train/index.html

Based on what I've read about Hypercard GS' specifications, it sounds
feasable.  HC is capable of controlling the serial ports and the game
port.  A simple model RR control should be trivial.  Someone even
wrote a BBS in HC for the Mac...using no external commands...the
thing is Hypermovable to the GS version, but it is already reportedly
dog slow on the Mac.

One of these days, I'm going to get some HC books and figure this
thing out...

On a similar note, Hyperstudio is also seemingly capable of model
RR control...there have been "switch" stacks written for the disabled
in it...