Re: HyperCard and GS/OS...

[gareth@vcn.bc.ca (Gareth Jones)]

Dave Althoff (dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us) wrote:

: Okay, Apple gurus...

: I recently installed a "new" 250Mb SCSI drive on my machine, partitioned
: into five partitions:  /Gemini, /Tornado, /Thunderbolt, and /Cyclone are
: 32Mb ProDOS partitions; :Magnum is a 107Mb HFS partition; Gemini is the
: GS/OS 6.0.1 boot partition; the machine is a "stock" ROM 01 GS (my
: TransWarp IIGS is not stable just yet, so I pulled it out).  I've got a
: total of 5.25Mb RAM, none of it allocated to /RAM.

I had troubles with a TransWarp that I solved by turning DMA OFF on my 
SCSI card. That may be your problem?

: I installed GraphicWriter and HyperCard on the :Magnum partition, since
: those programs are GS/OS native, and shouldn't mind living on an HFS
: volume.  GraphicWriter works just great.  But I have been having nothing
: but trouble with HyperCard GS.  Here's the question:

: I've had trouble with HCGS before.  I've tried different downloads, I keep
: reinstalling it, and it simply isn't stable on my machine.  Now that I
: have it on the new hard drive (a fresh install, btw.), I can't hardly get
: it to run at all.

Wierd! I'll mail you a set of disks (the ones that made a perfectly 
stable installation on my machine) if you can't solve this.
 

: Is HyperCard simply unhappy living on an HFS volume?  Or is this just a
: continuation of the problems I have always had with this
: good-for-almost-nothing program?  It will come up, but it likes to hang,
: crash, or otherwise fail.  I can leave my machine up and running for
: months on end if I don't try to run HyperCard.  But running HyperCard is a
: recipe for a system crash.  As for inits/DA's...I don't believe I am
: running any INITs other than those supplied with GS/OS; though I do have a
: couple of DA's including File-A-Trix.


File-A-Trix is not a problem, nor any of the MB of other DA's I have 
installed. You are certainly correct that, in the situation you describe, 
HCGS is "good for almost nothing." Once it is running, get the docs from 
The Byte Works, or e-mail me for some articles I wrote for it, and open 
up to the idea that HCGS is the GS/OS version of Applesoft BASIC. I.e. 
Anything you would ordinarily knock off in BASIC can be done better, 
easier, and more colourfully in HCGS. (Although I do use both).

-Gareth

: Any advice welcome...

: --Dave Althoff, ][.
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